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Keep Talking (Pink Floyd song)

1994 song by Pink Floyd

Summary

1994 song by Pink Floyd

Field	Value
name	Keep Talking
cover	Pink Floyd - "Keep Talking" (Promotional single).jpg
type	promotional single
artist	Pink Floyd
album	The Division Bell
released	12 March 1994
recorded	1993
studio	Astoria (London)
length	6:10 (album version)
4:55 (radio edit)
3:20 (France promo)
5:56 (Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd version)
label	EMI (Europe)
Columbia (US)
writer
producer
prev_title	One Slip
prev_year	1988
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misc

4:55 (radio edit) 3:20 (France promo) 5:56 (Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd version) Columbia (US) | A-side = "High Hopes" (double A-side) | B-side = "One of These Days (Live)" "Keep Talking" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell.

Recording

Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it is sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement. This same commercial was sampled again in "Talkin' Hawkin'" from Pink Floyd's final studio album, The Endless River. Gilmour chose to use the speech after nearly crying to the commercial, which he described as "the most powerful piece of television advertising that I've ever seen in my life." The song also makes use of the talk box guitar effect.

Release

The song was the first to be sent to radio stations from the album in the United States in March 1994. It was the group's third #1 hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart (a chart published by Billboard magazine which measures radio play in the United States, and is not a measure of record sales), staying atop for six weeks.

The song was included on the 2001 compilation, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.

Live

The song was performed every night during the 1994 The Division Bell Tour and live versions, taken from different shows, were included in both the album Pulse and the video of the same name.

The song was sampled by Wiz Khalifa on the title track of his 2009 mixtape Burn After Rolling.

Quotes

Personnel

;Pink Floyd

David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar, talk box, EBow
Richard Wright – Hammond organ, synthesizer
Nick Mason – drums, percussion

;Additional musicians

Gary Wallis – programming
Jon Carin – programming, additional keyboards
Guy Pratt – bass guitar
Sam Brown – backing vocals
Durga McBroom – backing vocals
Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
Jackie Sheridan – backing vocals
Rebecca Leigh-White – backing vocals
Stephen Hawking – computer voice, sampled

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1994)	Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)	8
Europe (European Hit Radio)	32
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1994)	Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)	64

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Catalog no.
United States	12 March 1994	CD-R (Modern rock/Alternative radio)	Columbia Records	CSK 6228
United Kingdom	28 March 1994	CD-R (Contemporary hit radio, BBC Radio 1 rotation)	EMI	PINK 1
10 October 1994	CDEMDJ 342

References

(8 October 1994). "New Releases: Singles".
"Pink Floyd's 'Keep Talking' - Discover the Sample Source".
(liner notes from ''[[Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd. Echoes]]'')
Michaels, Sean. (2014-10-08). "Stephen Hawking sampled on Pink Floyd's The Endless River". The Guardian.
"Echoes: the album credits". Pink Floyd.
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"Archived copy".
(14 May 1994). "EHR Top 40".
"Artist Chart History (Singles) – Pink Floyd". [[Allmusic]].
"RPM 100 Hit Tracks of 1994". RPM.
"US CD Singles". Pink Floyd Discography Archive.
"Pink Floyd". VintageCD.
(8 October 1994). "New Releases: Singles".

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