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Comment:
In the CD booklet, the page number, 22 is in Russian. The artwork shows
a man in black with a gigantic black scarf aloft in the wind. The back
cover of the CD booklet shows three men, but the first face is cropped
out of the composition and the middle one is behind a mask. This may
be a circular reference to the front art, which has two plainly visible
faces and an "absent" third face. Comment:
At 8:18min into the song you will here a phone conversation between
Steve O'Rourke (Manger) and Gilmour's son Charlie Comment:
Like the Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever', the track uses people
and places from adolescence (from the River Cam, where Gilmour
would swim as a youth, to The Cut, the path that leads from the road
to Grantchester Meadows - a meeting point
where the young dope smokers of Cambridge would gather to score) to
evoke a sense of mourning for the loss of idealism and childhood innocence. Comment:
The Division Bell, the bell that summons
members of parliament to The House of Commons to vote, gave the album
its title, and it is used here as a symbol of the separation from innosense,
beginning at birth. [HOME]
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