After his departure from Pink Floyd in 1983, bassist and singer Roger Waters did everything in his power for years to stop his three ex-band members from playing under this name. Not only did he lose every lawsuit but inadvertently also provided the group with a strong concept for the 1994 album The Division Bell, on which David Gilmour (singer, guitarist and main songwriter since Waters left)
… provides his obsessed ex-colleague with spirited reply in songs like Poles Apart and Lost For Words. It gives the album - with the theme of communication and the lack thereof - the necessary content and urgency that predecessor A Momentary Laps Of Reason lacks. The mighty spaceship Pink Floyd also takes off musically with transparent and slightly melancholic space rock full of glassy guitar sounds by Gilmour, atmospheric sound carpets by keyboardist Richard Wright and just as solid as percussive drums by Nick Mason; the unique sound that made the group grow in the seventies. This is once again sealed with soulful jubilant female voices and the saxophone playing of Dick Parry who previously played on Wish You Were Here, among others. That the group had regained its self-confidence was evident from the subsequent successful world tour, immortalized on the DVD Pulse. There was no sequel, however, and with the death of Wright in 2008, The Division Bell can be considered as the worthy last studio album by Pink Floyd. (MR) This is once again sealed with soulful jubilant female voices and the saxophone playing of Dick Parry who previously played on Wish You Were Here, among others. That the group had regained its self-confidence was evident from the subsequent successful world tour, immortalized on the DVD Pulse. There was no sequel, however, and with the death of Wright in 2008, The Division Bell can be considered as the worthy last studio album by Pink Floyd. (MR) This is once again sealed with soulful jubilant female voices and the saxophone playing of Dick Parry who previously played on Wish You Were Here, among others. That the group had regained its self-confidence was evident from the subsequent successful world tour, immortalized on the DVD Pulse. There was no sequel, however, and with the death of Wright in 2008, The Division Bell can be considered as the worthy last studio album by Pink Floyd. (MR)more
