David Gilmour About Face LP 1984 Pink Floyd prog psych NFS sample copy
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David Gilmour About Face LP 1984 Pink Floyd prog psych NFS sample

 

Original Australian pressing on CBS

 

About Face is the second solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter David Gilmour. It was originally released in March 1984, on the label Harvest in the UK, and Columbia in the US. Co-produced by Bob Ezrin and Gilmour, the album was recorded in 1983, in sessions that took place at Pathé Marconi Studio, in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Two tracks, "All Lovers Are Deranged" and the more radio-friendly "Love on the Air", were co-written by Gilmour and his long-time friend Pete Townshend, the main songwriter for The Who (Gilmour composed the music and Townshend wrote the lyrics). The remainder of the tracks are credited solely to Gilmour. In May of the same year, fellow Pink Floyd member Roger Waters released his first official solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.

 

On release, the album was received favourably by the majority of music critics and went on to peak at #21 on UK Albums Chart, and reached #32 on US Billboard 200. Two singles were issued from About Face: "Blue Light", and "Love on the Air". The album's first and leading single, "Blue Light" peaked at #62 in the US, while its second single "Love on the Air" failed to chart. The album was certified gold by the RIAA.

 

The album was recorded with engineer Andy Jackson at a time when Pink Floyd's future was uncertain. It was mixed by James Guthrie at Mayfair Studios in London, England.

 

Some of the musicians working with Gilmour were drummer Jeff Porcaro, bass guitarist Pino Palladino, Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord, backing vocalists Roy Harper, and Sam Brown, orchestral arranger Michael Kamen (who had also worked on The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking), and keyboardist Steve Winwood.

 

    [When] doing this album I wanted to make a really good record. I didn't want to do it very quickly, and I wanted to get the best musicians in the world that I could get hold of to play with me, so I thought I'd just make a little list of all my favourite musicians, you know, best drummer, best bass player, best keyboard player, and I'll work through the list to see who I can get. Jeff Porcaro was top of my drummers list, Pino Palladino was top of my bass players list, and Ian Kewley, or the Rev, as he's known, he actually came and did the bulk of the Hammond and piano playing, and he was terrific. Steve Winwood was top of my keyboard playing list but he couldn't do most of the album, but I got him to do a bit. He played Hammond organ on "Blue Light." I had a bit more time and was feeling a bit freer about things on this album... just more "accidents" tend to occur.

    —?David Gilmour

 

Side 1 :

  1.   Until We Sleep
  2.   Murder
  3.   Love On The Air
  4.   Blue Light
  5.   Out Of The Blue

 

Side 2:

  1.   All Lovers Are Deranged
  2.   You Know I'm Right
  3.   Cruise
  4.   Let's get Metaphysical
  5.   Near The End

 

 

 

CONDITION:

 

SLEEVE: EX+

 

RECORD: EX++ with Sample Copy stamp on one label Plays NM

 

 




 

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