re: Heroin fueled great music? Another earlier thread got me thinking.

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The music was a Gilmore composition that he'd had for a bit. Waters added the lyrics later.

By the time the song was recorded, Waters had pretty much commandeered the direction of the band and all the songwriting duties, which is most of the reason for the bad blood that broke them up.

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Gilmour describes this (and Waters does not dispute it) as the last positive moment of true collaboration during the Waters/Gilmour era of Pink Floyd. Roger had the concept of the song. David did the music. Roger sings the verse. David sings the chorus. And it is a brilliant piece of musicianship. The solo is #1 on many lists and Top 5 on them all - when you consider how slow and relatively simple that solo is - compared to others on the list - it is truly one of the best rock songs of all time, period. Up there with Stairway.

(And, yeah, when I was a stupid high school kid, I thought it was about heroin, too. But it isn't.)