Sunset Strip (song)

"Sunset Strip"
Single by Roger Waters
from the album Radio K.A.O.S.
B-side	"The Tide Is Turning" "Money" (Live) "Get Back to Radio (Demo)"
Released	12 September 1987
Format	7", 12"
Recorded	1986
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	4:45 (Album Version) 4:06 (Single Version)
Label	Columbia/CBS Records (US) EMI (UK)
Writer(s)	Roger Waters
Producer(s)	Roger Waters Nick Griffiths Ian Ritchie
Roger Waters singles chronology
"Radio Waves" (1987) "Sunset Strip" (1987) "The Tide Is Turning" (1987)
Alternative covers American single cover Music video "Sunsret Strip" on YouTube

"Sunset Strip" is a song written by Roger Waters for his second studio album, Radio K.A.O.S. It was placed as the fifth track on the record. It was also released as the album's second single, in September 1987.

Background

Billy uses a wheelchair and is thought to be mentally a vegetable. However, Billy is highly intelligent and gifted, and can hear radio waves in his head. He begins to explore the cordless phone, recognising its similarity to a radio. He experiments with a phone that his brother Benny, now in jail, hid in his wheelchair after vandalizing and robbing a store. and is able to access computers and speech synthesisers, he learns to speak through them. He calls a radio station in Los Angeles "named Radio KAOS" and tells them of his life story. "Sunset Strip" is about Billy's sister-in-law, Molly not being able to cope and sending him to L.A. to live with his uncle Dave.

Track listings

Charts

References

External links

• Sunset Strip Discogs
• Roger Waters official website