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Pink Floyd · 1995 · Track 5
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Duración6:10
Álbump·u·l·s·e
Año1995
ISRCGBN9X1100020
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The story behind
The electronic voice of Stephen Hawking is heard in Keep Talking, a choice that arose from the deep impression a television advertisement made on David Gilmour. He himself described that commercial as "the most impactful thing I have ever seen on television in my life," and that resonance led him to incorporate those vocal fragments. In addition to this particularity, the song is distinguished by the use of the talk box effect on the guitar, a resource that adds a vocal texture to the strings. The rhythmic and melodic foundation of the song is built on a sampled guitar loop, originally from a piece that Jon Carin captured with an E-bow and which was also used in Take It Back.
Recorded in 1993 at London's Astoria studio, Keep Talking was the first promotional cut sent to radio stations in the United States in March 1994, anticipating the release of the album The Division Bell. This strategy worked, as the song reached the number one spot on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart, remaining there for six weeks. The composition of the piece is the work of David Gilmour, Richard Wright, and Polly Samson, with production by Bob Ezrin and Gilmour himself. Live versions, captured during the 1994 tour, were included in the album and video Pulse. Later, in 2009, rapper Wiz Khalifa would use fragments of Keep Talking in his mixtape Burn After Rolling.