One of My Turns

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One of My Turns
Pink Floyd
publication November 30, 1979
length 4:08
Genre (s) Rock music , progressive rock , hard rock
text Roger Waters
music Roger Waters , David Gilmour
album The Wall

One of My Turns is a song by British rock band Pink Floyd from the 1979 concept album The Wall . The song was also released as the b-side of Another Brick in the Wall .

content

Like all other songs from The Wall , One of My Turns tells part of the story of the protagonist Pink , who erects an imaginary wall to protect himself from emotional influences.

Here invites Pink after being in Young Lust of adultery has experienced his wife, a groupie (voiced by Trudy Young ) to his hotel room one. She tries to get his attention at first, but unsuccessfully as he ignores all of her questions and watches TV instead.

When Pink starts to sing, he talks about his inner feelings. Towards the end, he finally produces an outburst of anger and destroys his hotel room, whereupon the young woman runs away.

music

A Wright synthesizer is played during the initial dialogue. When Waters starts singing, a relatively calm melody is played which, when Pink's outburst of anger begins in the second half, turns into an aggressive, hard rock-style melody .

Movie

The groupie is played here by Jenny Wright , who speaks almost the same monologue as Young. At first the young woman talks to Pink in vain. When she asks if he is okay, Pink loses her temper and begins to destroy the hotel room and throw things at the groupie, which causes the groupie to run away. At the end you can see Pink cutting open his hand and throwing the TV out of the window.

occupation

literature

  • Andy Mabbett: The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. Omnibus, London 1995, ISBN 0-7119-4301-X .
  • Vernon Fitch: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. 3. Edition. Collector's Guide Publications, Burlington, Ont. 2005, ISBN 1-894959-24-8 .

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