Talk:In the Flesh?

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I'm cleaning up this article, and moving the stuff about the second In the Flesh to the In the Flesh article, as these are two distinct songs. I've placed the existing text here (bar the lyrics) so that I can refer to it when doing the other article. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 21:13, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

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In the Flesh? is the dramatic opening piece of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Though the first version is merely used as an introduction to the album, a version played later in the album, In the Flesh, is a song about the main character Pink's belief that his concerts are fascist rallies and that he is a fascist leader. The track begins with a few seconds of the album's last song, "Outside The Wall": this was intended to give the album a "circular" structure.

Interestingly the furious organs aren't played by Richard Wright, who was on the rocks with the band at this time; they were played by Freddie Mandell. Also, the synthesizers parts of the song were played by album co-producer Bob Ezrin.

During the concert a fake band wearing face-masks of the members of Pink Floyd would play this number.