If (song)
| If | |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | |
| publication | October 10, 1970 |
| length | 4:31 |
| Genre (s) | Progressive rock |
| text | Roger Waters |
| music | Roger Waters |
| album | Atom Heart Mother |
If is a song by the British rock band Pink Floyd , released on the 1970 Atom Heart Mother album .
If it was up to the end of 2001 to be included in the best of album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd , which ultimately failed to materialize.
Conception
The song was composed and sung by Roger Waters . The song builds up in E major . Similar to Grantchester Meadows by Ummagumma (1969), published a year earlier , If has bucolic - folky features with a tendency to describe inner experience . During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Waters had developed a liking for picturesque ballads. He had tried this with Ron Geesin outside of Pink Floyd in the soundtrack for the pop art film The Body .
Live performances
If was performed live on John Peel 's radio show at the BBC's Paris Theater in London on July 16, 1970 . Here played Richard Wright in addition to his Farfisa -Orgel and electric bass . Later Roger Waters If played numerous times on his solo tours during the ' The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking ' tour of 1984/85 and 1987 on the occasion of the Radio KAOS tour. During these tours, the text and music of the piece were expanded.
Staffing
- Roger Waters - vocals , acoustic guitar , electric bass
- David Gilmour - Slide Guitar Electric Guitar
- Richard Wright - piano , Hammond organ / Live: Farfisa organ
- Nick Mason - drums
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin C. Strong, The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.), Edinburgh: Canongate Books. Page 1177 (2004). ISBN 1-84195-551-5 .
- ↑ James Guthrie, Building a compilation album ( Memento June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Nicholas Schaffner, The Amazing Pudding. Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey (New ed.), London: Helter Skelter, 162 (2005). ISBN 1-905139-09-8 .
- ^ Toby Manning, The Albums . The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (1st ed.), London: Rough Guides. Page 162 (2006). ISBN 1-84353-575-0 .
- ^ Pink Floyd live in concert at the BBC's Paris Theater, London in 1970
- ^ Bob Carruthers, The Wall. Pink Floyd - Uncensored on the Record (E-book ed.) , Cooda Books Ltd. (2011). ISBN 978-1-908538-27-7 . Retrieved October 11, 2012.
- ↑ Roger Waters Pros & Cons Of Hitch Hiking Tour 1984 - 1985 Part 1
- ↑ Barry Miles, Andy Mabbett; Pink Floyd - The Visual Documentary , London: Omnibus, (1994). ISBN 0711941092 .