Delicate Sound of Thunder (film)

Delicate Sound of Thunder
VHS cover of Delicate Sound of Thunder (U.S./JP/AUS versions)
Directed by	Wayne Isham
Produced by	Steve O'Rourke Curt Marvis Robbie Williams
Starring	Pink Floyd
Music by	Pink Floyd
Cinematography	Marc Reshovsky
Edited by	Lisa Hendricks Jeff Richter
Distributed by	CBS Music Video Enterprises (non-Europe) Picture Music International (Europe)
Release dates	13 June 1989
Running time	100 min.
Language	English

Delicate Sound of Thunder is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour. It was largely filmed during the concerts running from 19 August 1988 through 23 August 1988 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, with some additional footage from 21–22 June 1988 at the Place d'Armes of the Château de Versailles, Versailles, France (used to provide the performance of "The Great Gig in the Sky". Note that the Versailles show was only used for some of the video footage. The audio is from Nassau). It was released on VHS and Laserdisc formats. It has never been officially released on DVD. Each song in common with the CD release uses the same performance (except "Run Like Hell" and "On the Turning Away", the latter of which has a different guitar solo at the end) with the audience a little higher in the mix. The remaining three songs—"Signs of Life", "On the Run", and "One Slip"—all come from Nassau as well. The two tracks from the A Momentary Lapse of Reason LP were recorded on 23 August 1988, while "On the Run" was recorded on 19 August 1988. The determining factor in figuring out which of the remaining songs was from which night was the clothing differences, most notably which tie was being worn by Jon Carin.

Track listing

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part I)" (Waters/Wright/Gilmour)
2. "Signs of Life" (Gilmour/Ezrin)
3. "Learning to Fly" (Gilmour/Moore/Ezrin/Carin)
4. "Sorrow" (Gilmour)
5. "The Dogs of War" (Gilmour/Moore)
6. "On the Turning Away" (Gilmour/Moore)
7. "One of These Days" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)
8. "Time" (Mason/Waters/Wright/Gilmour)
9. "On the Run" (Gilmour/Waters)
10. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (Wright)
11. "Wish You Were Here" (Waters/Gilmour)
12. "Us and Them" (Waters/Wright)
13. "Money" (Waters) NTSC version only
14. "Comfortably Numb" (Gilmour/Waters)
15. "One Slip" (Gilmour/Manzanera)
16. "Run Like Hell" (Gilmour/Waters)
17. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts II-V)" (audio only) (end credits)

Songs omitted from the Film

The following songs which were part of the 1988 set were not included in the film:

• "Yet Another Movie" *
• "Round and Around" *
• "A New Machine"
• "Terminal Frost"
• "Welcome to the Machine"
• "Money" (PAL version) *
• "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" *

Songs with asterisk (*) are included in the album version.

Personnel

• David Gilmour - guitars, console steel guitar, vocals
• Nick Mason - drums
• Richard Wright - keyboards, piano, vocals

with

• Tim Renwick - guitars, vocals
• Jon Carin - keyboards, piano, programming, vocals
• Scott Page - saxophones, guitar
• Guy Pratt - bass, vocals
• Gary Wallis - percussion, additional keyboards and vocals on "Comfortably Numb"
• Margaret Taylor - backing vocals
• Rachel Fury - backing vocals
• Durga McBroom - backing vocals

External links

• Review by Robert Christgau, Video Review, August 1989
• Delicate Sound of Thunder at the Internet Movie Database