It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.Roger Waters
In 1987 or '88, Etienne and Nadine came with a manuscript, ... It was all handwritten, with illustrations by Nadine. They asked if I would set it to music.
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Who is the strongest, who is the best, who holds the aces, the East or the West. This is the crap our children are learning.
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In the article, they note that Waters' music recalls the lush, hyper-Romantic sound of opera composers like Puccini. He is definitely an inspiration, ... After all, his opera 'Tosca' takes place in a police state.
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Each small candle lights a corner of the darkWhen the wheel of pain stops turning And the branding iron stops burningWhen the children can be children When the desperados weaken When the tide rolls into greet themAnd the natural law of science Greets the humble and the mighty And a billion candles burning Lights the dark side of every human mind
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Eventually, though, ... Sony urged me to use English instead of French, so I wrote an English version of Etienne and Nadine's work, and then I felt compelled to expand on their original text. Their work was really a series of gorgeous tableaux, and I added more personal narrative and history for some of the characters.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
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Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
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