David Gilmour has recalled how writing the 1987 song “Sorrow” helped him and his Pink Floyd bandmates move forward without Roger Waters.
According to Gilmour, the revelation came while he was working on A Momentary Lapse of Reason, which became the band’s first LP without co-founder Waters.
“I had been working for some time in the studio on a number of songs,” Gilmour said in the first episode of the new Pink Floyd podcast series “The Lost Art of Conversation.” “But what was then going to happen was in the air for a long time while Roger decided whether he was going to f**k off into the ether, and what we would then do. … I just start writing and hoping that things [would] progress into something.”
However, he reminisced that “the moment the whole lyric for ‘Sorrow’ came to me like magic from nowhere. I sat down and just basically wrote down five verses for a song which I had no music for. … I’ve never done it that way round before — it’s always been music first. With ‘Sorrow,’ the words came first and then I wrote the music to fit it, and went in and demoed it and put it all together in the studio. That, for me, was the moment when I thought we were all in the clear; it was the direction we wanted to be going, and it was a good song. It gave context to the other songs and made me have confidence in where we were going.”
A Momentary Lapse of Reason received mixed critical response but sold more albums than Pink Floyd’s previous LP, The Final Cut.
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