About Face

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About Face
Studio album by David Gilmour

Publication
(s)

March 5, 1984

Label (s) Harvest Records , EMI

Format (s)

CD, LP, MC

Genre (s)

Blues rock , progressive rock , hard rock

Title (number)

10

running time

  • 45:18 (original album)
  • 45:37 (CD version 2006)
occupation
  • Hammond organ and piano on Love on the Air and Blue Light : Steve Winwood

production

David Gilmour, Bob Ezrin

Studio (s)

Pathé Marconi Studio , Boulogne-Billancourt (France)

chronology
David Gilmour
(1978) 		About Face On an Island
(2006)

About Face (English for. " U-turn ") is the second solo album by British musician David Gilmour , the guitarist , singer , composer and songwriter of the rock band Pink Floyd . It was released in March 1984. The album was produced by David Gilmour and co-produced by Bob Ezrin . The tracks were all composed by Gilmour, the lyrics for the tracks Love on the Air and All Lovers Are Deranged were written by The Who musician Pete Townshend .

background

The album was recorded in France with Andrew Jackson. The recordings were made at a time when the future of the band Pink Floyd was unclear. The album was mixed by James Guthrie at Mayfair Studios in London.

Guest musicians on the album were Jeff Porcaro , Pino Palladino , Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord and Steve Winwood . Even Michael Kamen was involved in the orchestral arrangements of the album, which he ex-Pink Floyd colleagues in the same year for Gilmour Roger Waters on his album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking executed.

The album contained the disco-style single Blue Light and another single: Love on the Air .

About Face was re-released in Europe on August 14, 2006 as a CD with a sound revision, two of the songs were played a little longer.

As for Gilmour's first album, the Hipgnosis company was responsible for the cover design, whose employee Storm Thorgerson worked for About Face under the pseudonym "STd".

The second song on the album Murder is dedicated to the British musician John Lennon , who was killed in 1980 and whom Gilmour admired but never met (not even on Abbey Road ). The middle section of the text is aimed directly at the murderer, but Gilmour uses a knife as a metaphor ( On your own admission you raised up the knife ). In fact, Lennon was shot.

Track list

In 2006 a digitally revised version of the album was released on CD, this also contained longer versions of individual songs than on previous releases. The length of the longer version on this edition is given in brackets.

  1. Until We Sleep (David Gilmour) - 5:15 (5:20)
  2. Murder (David Gilmour) - 4:59
  3. Love on the Air (David Gilmour, Pete Townshend ) - 4:19
  4. Blue Light (David Gilmour) - 4:35
  5. Out of the Blue (David Gilmour) - 3:35
  6. All Lovers Are Deranged (David Gilmour, Pete Townshend) - 3:14
  7. You Know I'm Right (David Gilmour) - 5:06
  8. Cruise (David Gilmour) - 4:40
  9. Let's Get Metaphysical (David Gilmour) - 4:09
  10. Near the End (David Gilmour) - 5:36 (5:50)

Unused pieces

Gilmour had written two other melodies for which he had no lyrics.

He therefore asked Roy Harper and, independently, Pete Townshend if they could write appropriate lyrics for the melodies. Gilmour did not like either of the proposed texts. So did Harper use his melody for the song "Hope" on the 1985 album with Jimmy Page on Whatever Happened to Jugula? . Townshend used his melody for the song "White City Fighting" on his 1984 solo album, White City: A Novel .

tour

Gilmour at a concert on the About Face tour in Brussels (1984)

Between March and July 1984 Gilmour was touring Europe and North America with the album. At these concerts he played the following songs:

  1. Until We Sleep
  2. All Lovers Are Deranged
  3. There's No Way Out of Here
  4. Love on the air
  5. Mihalis
  6. Cruise
  7. Short & Sweet
  8. Money (Pink Floyd)
  9. Run Like Hell (Pink Floyd)
  10. Out of the blue
  11. Let's get metaphysical
  12. You know I'm right
  13. Blue light
  14. Murder
  15. Near the end
  16. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
  17. I Can't Breathe Anymore

Live video

Furthermore, a concert film entitled Pink Floyd's David Gilmour was released on the same tour as VHS in September 1984 . This contains the following titles:

  1. Until We Sleep
  2. All Lovers Are Deranged
  3. There's no way out of here
  4. Short and sweet
  5. Run Like Hell (Pink Floyd)
  6. Out of the blue
  7. Blue light
  8. Murder
  9. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)

Contributors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pink Floyd. From underground to rock icon by Nicholas Schaffner, page 304