Hard to believe someone that young can enter a studio, and be told we don't know what we want from you, other than no words to the song. But sing. Lol. And she improvises and does that, the culmination of two full takes, and a third which she stopped at midpoint exhausted, and told them she had given all she could and they should be able to work with what she did. And left thinking they would never use my singing effort. But they did as we all marvel at. Later explaining she figured I would just use my voice as if I were an instrument. Quite frankly brilliant. All singer's voices are instruments, but she meant literally. Lol. And it showed. And the rest is as they say...History. Legendary history. I'm glad she finally got some serious compensation (albeit via a lawsuit) in the later years rather than the thirty British Pounds she received for that work (Judas received thirty pieces of Silver for his work...hmm). FYI in 1973, 30 GBP = 2,518 USD. She had no choice. No one was rolling up to her door with wheel barrels of cash voluntarily. They should have. Lol. Anyway, nothing against the guys. Young. Still finding their way. Manager(s) really should have initiated something once the evidence was in so to speak. Business back then was fractional. No real established way to compensate those who came in and left other than hourly, doing a part here and there. But THIS? This was special. It was a game-changer. It all ended well. What a masterpiece.
@@fernandoc.campos8842 Yes...you are correct. I was referring to the single effort that day as a whole where no words were used. Show up. Do the singing. Leave. Once she realized they wanted no words, she did two full takes. On the third take stopped, basically spent, and told them she had given them all she could and what she did do up to that point was good enough and they should be able to work with it. And left. Lol. Alan Parsons and the boys did just that. Apparently, they used all three takes (2.5 actually) to come up with what we hear and marvel at. She thought they would use none of it. I should have been more specific rather than the truncated version. I stand corrected (modified my original comment).
Precisely...When They Calked Into the Studio In 1972~They Told Her They Wanted Her Vocals To Touch On Several Different Emotions... She Recorded Her Vocals In 1 Take...
It’s funny,listening to this album growing up,but it wasn’t till I bought a high end CD player and amp and speakers that this album changed . I could hear other voices and more sounds in the background that I’d never noticed before and it nearly made me cry listening to it . Music deffo sounds better on a nice system. You can see why it’s voted no1 of all time
She did it per instructions and she did it with zero embellishment. No clocks no guitars no insane people in the studio. Except for for the spirit of syd.
I listen and listen to this song since released when I was 10 years old...and still can't put into words what it does to me...but I love whatever it does.
Clare Torry did what no one else ever gets to say they did. She vocalized perfection. In studio or live no one will ever upstage Clare Torry. This is simply the greatest song there has ever been. Period.
@@BlueBeeMCMLXI i agree with him and i first heard this as a teenager in '73 and never recovered from Claire's delivery of a completely free musical adlib . Musical genius .
Yes, as superlative as I thought Torrey's performance was when I first heard it, the depth of regard, feeling, and utter awe I have for it today is far greater.
Expressing perfectly my exhausted mental state at the moment. That’s what art is - another language, not the common one, and it can only be produced by another human being for our experience is shared. I hate to think that the following generations will be miserably trapped by the unaccountable AI.
Who'd have thought that a skinny little 25yo white girl would walk into the studio in 1974, no idea what she was supposed to do, no idea who she was recording for, and a few hours later walked out for a pay day of 30 pounds. And here we are, one of most famous, most amazing female vocal tracks, that doesn't even have any words.
I’m 60 now but when I was younger we’d hangout in the alley just a few steps from my house. One by one they would arrive. The lighted pole was ours. We got high, listened to the radio, and sometimes we even made bbq. We drank cheap beer. I first heard the Great Gig in The Sky Clare’s version. Everyone got quite and listen including myself. Each one in their own world. When the song finished everyone said “a-la-va” meaning whoa in Spanish. Yesterday I happened to run into this song randomly it brought tears. And a feeling that I haven’t felt in a longtime. It was not Pink Floyd but a band called Atom, she had the same voice as Clare. I grew up with Pink Floyd and likes this it’s awesome to hear these songs again and brings back memories long ago. To Atom and the lady that sang this cover!
Pink Floyd has a documentary about making "Dark Side of the Moon". The whole album was a culmination of so many factors beyond just the groups talent and imagination. Having Clare there at that time in her life, with whatever motivated every nuance in her thoughts and voice... The album is an example of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It would not have been the album it is, without every part and Clare Torry was key in what this album has become. Thank you Pink Floyd... and thank you Clare Torry for a performance that has touched so many lives in such beautiful ways.
Hey Floyd friends there is a exhibit in Los Angeles California it's called all that remains goes on til February 4 it's on Broadway wow 😲 Floyd's on Broadway I'm 53 thank you fir getting me through life had a abusive dad is were I f it eat heard Floyd he cudnt beat me nor cud u stop me from hearing Floyd not jus listening#23
Sorry to hear your dad was so hard on you, I hope your mom made up for this?. I have so many memories of my late father, I'm a bit older than you and have my own kids, it's a difficult call being a father, I'm so glad this brilliant colourful music helped you through. Enjoy your life as much as you can, I'm sure he loved you in his heart.
They asked her to just compose, just invent and she came up with this masterpiece. Y'know what? She came out of the booth and apologised but Flloyd were blown away and the rest of us have been ever since. Claire, you're a darlin'
Clare Torry, in a later interview, said she worked only with David Gilmour on this recording. She said she did two takes, and David asked her to do one more take; she said she was sorry, but had other plans that day (she said she didn't know who Pink Floyd was, having only heard of the band's name).
Afterwards, by her own admission, she wasn't even sure her take was going to be used for the final mix. When the album appeared some months later and she had a look at it in a record shop, she was surprised to find her own name among the credits. So it's not as if she walked out of the studio thinking: "today I cut a masterpiece vocal, I KNOW this will be on the radio!"
This LP was introduced to me in March 1974, by my friends, and to this day I haven't gone a long time without listening to it, thank you PINK FLOYD for toasting my adolescence with this wonder
I am fifty years old and I never did drugs. I think I 'll never will. But every time I listen to this song, I enter a kind of psychedelic journey akin to what people describe they feel when they are high.
Every time I hear it, this brings a tear to my eye. I’ve listened to this from the beginning. Wow, what a beautiful voice. Thank you so much for this song.
Hail Ms Claire Torry, since my highchool days i've been listenning this song, wonderful of yours that i luv so much..when i was in Saudi Arabia driving my car at a speed of 120 kmh i just turn off the A/C open the windows and play the tape, greatest gig in the sky makes me high..thanks Ms Claire Torry..
Thank you clare, for singin this extraordinaire part. This is the greatest song on the album and one of my favorit floyd songs. Its could'nt get better. ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
Overdue Lifetime Vocalist Grammy award for Clare Torry. Very few songs transcend but this one nearly fifty years on still delivers and sears ones soul😎👌
I am a Brazillian guy. In 1974, I was living in Brasilia and was 12 yd. Then, I had the first contact with the Dark Side Of The Moon album through friends of my older sister. As an earlier rock geek, I did immediately buy it. I didn't understand English yet. Until now, my English oral comprehension level doesn't allow me to understand perfectly what many vocalists of English rock bands use to sing. But in this unique song I'm sure to have understood it instantly. Many years from then I still keep my eyes full of water whenever I hear this song. I do presume it happens to many people around the world who have heard this song when it was released, during their childhood or teenagehood, like me.
J'ai écouté ce morceau pour la première fois en 1974 alors que j'étais teenager et j'ai été totalement et immédiatement subjugué par la justesse et la puissance de la voix. Depuis ce jour, à chaque fois qu'il m'est donné de réentendre ce morceau, je ressens les mêmes frissons que ceux éprouvés lors de la première écoute... Merveilleuse Clare Torry...
Claire Torry. Thank you. I first heard this masterpiece in 1972. I was lying on the floor in a hippy style house high on Mary - Jane, what wonderful days they were. It was in the middle of a rainy day in London, and I was overjoyed back the with this piece as I was 50 years ago....
This song has such deep meaning when you are diagnosed with cancer that has taken relatives all around you. I have reached remission but this song will forever be a reminder of a dark time that i came through ok Nobody conveys the emotion of this song better than her 🩷✌️💎
Merci pour elle. Clare Torry a IMPROVISE ce magnifique morceau dans un enregistrement où elle a dû marier colère, douleur et apaisement en moins de 4 mn sans un seul mot. J'en suis fou ! Si je la rencontrais je lui dirait que je l'aime.
Pour moi c'est LA chanson de l'album, depuis toujours ! Et de l'avoir spoliée durant tant d'années sur ses droits d'autrice est un véritable scandale et d'une goujaterie sans nom !
What a masterpiece. I have a 7 month old granddaughter who absolutely loves to hear this. She's already into music thanks to her daddy. Hopefully this will be her singing this. Such a shame Clare didn't get the attention that was so well deserved for this song.
I think she's gettin it now, better late than never. How many people know her name now but still can't name all the rest of the guys in the band? Hell, I can't!
people, i think this is a one and only performance of a life time . i haven't heard any other vocalist catch what she did here and i doubt whether she could do repeat this one off ever again,. did they get her to do any live versions of this and if so where they ever as good ? man they caught some unique magic that day. what a gift to the world .i hope this is around as long as mankind is. for people of the future to gasp in awe. 4 odd minutes and you've catapulted yourself into history and left an indelible legacy for mankind . it's nearly a glimpse into the most exposed heart you can get of a human .nearly the most sacred music i've ever heard .or am i going overboard and getting weird ? another point as a believer ,if we could pray with this conviction, fervour and passion and all our heart, we'd get some things moving. if anybody wants to throw some prayers my way to help ,i want to be able to pray with the unrestrainedness (fully exposed no brakes on or holding back ) she brings to this . thanks .
Simply a genius, Clare. How have you been able to express so well and with no lyrics what you were asked to do by the leaders of Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons...THANK YOU SO MUCH
Dark Side of the Moon caught me when I was youngster visiting a HiFi store in town and ever since the "Great Gig in the Sky" is the part on this album I'm waiting for when listening to this masterpiece of musical art by Pink Floyd. When I heard it for the first time I immediately realized that it will be here to stay forever and today, almost 50 years later, I know I got it right.
Clare was in the dark about how to make the most of this classic song. It exhausted her midway through… but in the end she made something that is beyond beautiful… it’s priceless and will forever remain in Fans hearts
human connection to the core, wow. A voice, and immediately I am consumed and connected. I have never felt this with any other vocal performance, when I first heard in the 70s and even now. Thank you Clare.
@ronf4351 i did go figure,the thumbs down are about 3% of the total thumbs up,which leads me to belive its fair to say 3% of the population are either morons or deaf.
Happiness,sadness,death Resurrection,life,all in 1 tune with no words. Everyone can relate to this . To me it’s like your life flashing by on a projector screen
I always thought that the woman was black because of the kind of singing associated with black singers in the U.S. where I live. The Beatles composed some great songs but Pink Floyd went above and beyond anything the Beatles did. They seem to be almost shouting warnings to us humans to avoid shallow, harmful living associated with materialism, tyranny and other negative characteristics/traits. The ending of this song where the song's tempo is slightly and quickly sped up is subtle yet so meaningful. There's so much that I can interpret just from that slight technique, and I believe Pink Floyd purposefully employed that. To me it echoes the mysterious, powerful and haunting theme about time and the meaning of life. The entire album is especially meaningful to me because a few months later after it was released, my mother's sister died on xmas day of 1973--the day she was scheduled to be released after a long bout with depression and other related problems. We were all awaiting that day but that morning forever shattered the peace and happiness of life most kids only know about life at that age. She brought a lot of those things on herself and she probably committed suicide. But I was 7 at that time and confused about why anyone would die especially on a day I used to anticipate and associate with joy and excitement. My mother's parents, one of her cousins, and my father's mother would also die almost in succession during the following 3 years---also around xmas. I was scared and confused after also watching my mother grieve during those same years. Life didn't make sense to me if loved ones were dying so quickly and in succession, at least to a child's immature and undeveloped mind. Memories of 1973-1976 are like a dark, depressing cloud to me. One of the few hopefuls things about those years is the great music that was produced like Pink Floyd's. Years later during the beginning of this century I purchased almost every single Pink Floyd album on CD. I couldn't get enough of their songs and messages. Their Animals album really helped me to avoid becoming like the dreaded characters that Pink Floyd sang about on that album. I would carefully listen to those songs and other Pink Floyd's songs on my iPod as I got off from one bus to another, struggling to get to my jobs on time. There are few philosophy rockers that equal Pink Floyd. They're not only progressive but very philosophical as well. Sometimes words aren't needed to communicate deep meanings and feelings like in this song. Their music is timeless and always applicable, probably more so today than ever.
In 1973 I was 8 years old. A year later my parents got divorced, which was rough, but no one in my family passed away until I was an adult. I can't imagine how difficult that must have been for you. I'm glad you survived it and are able to enjoy Pink Floyd despite the connection to your childhood memories.
I've always wanted this to be played at my funeral, without words it embodies by life experience. I'm seventy years old and I still want this played. I'm just closer to the funeral. And I'm okay with that.
So many happy trips back in the day , listening to this and other Floyd albums. Even got to see them at Earls Court doing ' The Wall'. High time indeed 😊😊😊
She vocalizes every single solitary human emotion.. without saying a word ❤
Hard to believe someone that young can enter a studio, and be told we don't know what we want from you, other than no words to the song. But sing. Lol. And she improvises and does that, the culmination of two full takes, and a third which she stopped at midpoint exhausted, and told them she had given all she could and they should be able to work with what she did. And left thinking they would never use my singing effort. But they did as we all marvel at. Later explaining she figured I would just use my voice as if I were an instrument. Quite frankly brilliant. All singer's voices are instruments, but she meant literally. Lol. And it showed. And the rest is as they say...History. Legendary history. I'm glad she finally got some serious compensation (albeit via a lawsuit) in the later years rather than the thirty British Pounds she received for that work (Judas received thirty pieces of Silver for his work...hmm). FYI in 1973, 30 GBP = 2,518 USD. She had no choice. No one was rolling up to her door with wheel barrels of cash voluntarily. They should have. Lol. Anyway, nothing against the guys. Young. Still finding their way. Manager(s) really should have initiated something once the evidence was in so to speak. Business back then was fractional. No real established way to compensate those who came in and left other than hourly, doing a part here and there. But THIS? This was special. It was a game-changer. It all ended well. What a masterpiece.
In an interview, she said she did 3 takes. David Gilmour confirmed in an interview that it was not just a take.
@@fernandoc.campos8842 Yes...you are correct. I was referring to the single effort that day as a whole where no words were used. Show up. Do the singing. Leave. Once she realized they wanted no words, she did two full takes. On the third take stopped, basically spent, and told them she had given them all she could and what she did do up to that point was good enough and they should be able to work with it. And left. Lol. Alan Parsons and the boys did just that. Apparently, they used all three takes (2.5 actually) to come up with what we hear and marvel at. She thought they would use none of it. I should have been more specific rather than the truncated version. I stand corrected (modified my original comment).
Well said
I think she eventually got paid 20 Million pounds for it, a drop in the bucket
thanks for the info. and great comment.
"Clare needs a lifetime Grammy for this."
YES! YES! YES!
on a first take, simple incredible.
Awesome
AMEN!!! Goose bumps every time I listen to Her Glorious Solo.
Thanks for being with me all of these years Clare
This is not a vocal that you simply "hear" , this is a vocal that you feel, and my god , what a feeling
Grrr8 Comment !!!
Precisely...When They Calked Into the Studio In 1972~They Told Her They Wanted Her Vocals To Touch On Several Different Emotions... She Recorded Her Vocals In 1 Take...
Magistral
per other members there were multiple takes and the recording you hear is selected parts mixed
Well, singing is that... yes... feeling. Are you high?
One of the greatest pieces of vocalization ever performed or recorded. Still gives me chills to this day.
I am a grown man, pretty rough, and this still brings tears to my eyes.
@@andynaz5631 Clare Torry immensa ♥️♥️♥️
I couldnt agree more, its utter perfection and fills me with goose bumps over and over - brilliant
This is my soul mother
No words but probably one of the most powerful masterpieces ever sung.
03:33 "If you can hear this whispering you are dying." If you can hear it, well... but if you can't hear it...
WORDS would have gotten in the Way....Certainly a Masterpiece
It’s funny,listening to this album growing up,but it wasn’t till I bought a high end CD player and amp and speakers that this album changed .
I could hear other voices and more sounds in the background that I’d never noticed before and it nearly made me cry listening to it . Music deffo sounds better on a nice system.
You can see why it’s voted no1 of all time
@@dannyreed2887 yes i thought i noticed something! strange vibes...can we hear it?
@@23Chickens1Cowandhalfgoat Yes. It is almost subliminal.
Clare needs a lifetime Grammy for this.
She did it per instructions and she did it with zero embellishment. No clocks no guitars no insane people in the studio. Except for for the spirit of syd.
I thnk syd was already gone
@@jeffhavas8013 exactly..the spirit of syd's natural ability to improvise and see what happens..she was amazing on that day!
@@djsaverkill9392 long time
wait Alan did a lot mixing she said
I listen and listen to this song since released when I was 10 years old...and still can't put into words what it does to me...but I love whatever it does.
Именно она исполнила этот ремикс лучше других
You too ❤️🏴
I can't imagine another single voice in history that has ever touched so many souls ... without uttering a single word!
Clare Torry did what no one else ever gets to say they did. She vocalized perfection. In studio or live no one will ever upstage Clare Torry. This is simply the greatest song there has ever been. Period.
Even for TH-cam, your hyperbole is staggeringly dense.
@@BlueBeeMCMLXI i agree with him and i first heard this as a teenager in '73 and never recovered from Claire's delivery of a completely free musical adlib . Musical genius .
Yes, in deed best female vocal ever!!!
❤
50 years later (I'm 65) and it still brings me to tears and smiles EVERY TIME I listen to it!
So emotional and the older you become the greater the feeling. Sublime
Yes, as superlative as I thought Torrey's performance was when I first heard it, the depth of regard, feeling, and utter awe I have for it today is far greater.
Expressing perfectly my exhausted mental state at the moment. That’s what art is - another language, not the common one, and it can only be produced by another human being for our experience is shared. I hate to think that the following generations will be miserably trapped by the unaccountable AI.
It makes me weep because of it's beauty each time that hear it.
You put it into the words that I couldn't find thank you
100%👍🏴
Who'd have thought that a skinny little 25yo white girl would walk into the studio in 1974, no idea what she was supposed to do, no idea who she was recording for, and a few hours later walked out for a pay day of 30 pounds. And here we are, one of most famous, most amazing female vocal tracks, that doesn't even have any words.
I’m 60 now but when I was younger we’d hangout in the alley just a few steps from my house. One by one they would arrive. The lighted pole was ours. We got high, listened to the radio, and sometimes we even made bbq. We drank cheap beer. I first heard the Great Gig in The Sky Clare’s version. Everyone got quite and listen including myself. Each one in their own world. When the song finished everyone said “a-la-va” meaning whoa in Spanish.
Yesterday I happened to run into this song randomly it brought tears. And a feeling that I haven’t felt in a longtime. It was not Pink Floyd but a band called Atom, she had the same voice as Clare.
I grew up with Pink Floyd and likes this it’s awesome to hear these songs again and brings back memories long ago. To Atom and the lady that sang this cover!
This one is the original, not a cover!!!😊
Thanks Alan Parsons for suggesting Claire!!!
Pink Floyd has a documentary about making "Dark Side of the Moon". The whole album was a culmination of so many factors beyond just the groups talent and imagination. Having Clare there at that time in her life, with whatever motivated every nuance in her thoughts and voice... The album is an example of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It would not have been the album it is, without every part and Clare Torry was key in what this album has become. Thank you Pink Floyd... and thank you Clare Torry for a performance that has touched so many lives in such beautiful ways.
Hey Floyd friends there is a exhibit in Los Angeles California it's called all that remains goes on til February 4 it's on Broadway wow 😲 Floyd's on Broadway I'm 53 thank you fir getting me through life had a abusive dad is were I f it eat heard Floyd he cudnt beat me nor cud u stop me from hearing Floyd not jus listening#23
Sorry to hear your dad was so hard on you, I hope your mom made up for this?. I have so many memories of my late father, I'm a bit older than you and have my own kids, it's a difficult call being a father, I'm so glad this brilliant colourful music helped you through. Enjoy your life as much as you can, I'm sure he loved you in his heart.
This is pure and non adultered beauty. Never ever in my entire life I have listened to a better version than this one.
The live version from pulse is pretty great too
Total agreement from me. Awesome from Clare.
Without THIS one, there would NOT be ANY other versions ... Bud.
They asked her to just compose, just invent and she came up with this masterpiece. Y'know what? She came out of the booth and apologised but Flloyd were blown away and the rest of us have been ever since. Claire, you're a darlin'
Was this not composed by Rick Wright?
@@dad7720 The chord progression was Rick Wright's (as with "Us and Them").
Clare Torry, in a later interview, said she worked only with David Gilmour on this recording. She said she did two takes, and David asked her to do one more take; she said she was sorry, but had other plans that day (she said she didn't know who Pink Floyd was, having only heard of the band's name).
Afterwards, by her own admission, she wasn't even sure her take was going to be used for the final mix. When the album appeared some months later and she had a look at it in a record shop, she was surprised to find her own name among the credits. So it's not as if she walked out of the studio thinking: "today I cut a masterpiece vocal, I KNOW this will be on the radio!"
Her voice still brings me to tears after all these years still amazing as hell
Thanks,great memories. ✌🏻👊🏼
Still get goosebumps.
Luv ya
This LP was introduced to me in March 1974, by my friends, and to this day I haven't gone a long time without listening to it, thank you PINK FLOYD for toasting my adolescence with this wonder
I am fifty years old and I never did drugs. I think I 'll never will. But every time I listen to this song, I enter a kind of psychedelic journey akin to what people describe they feel when they are high.
Smoke a joint and relax while playing the entire Dark side of the moon album. It’s pure bliss!
I could tell a story about that but think I will pass.
Your wrong. It's Jesus His spirit that you are feeling.
It is quite euphoric.
Me pasa lo mismo!
Every time I hear it, this brings a tear to my eye. I’ve listened to this from the beginning. Wow, what a beautiful voice. Thank you so much for this song.
Hail Ms Claire Torry, since my highchool days i've been listenning this song, wonderful of yours that i luv so much..when i was in Saudi Arabia driving my car at a speed of 120 kmh i just turn off the A/C open the windows and play the tape, greatest gig in the sky makes me high..thanks Ms Claire Torry..
the same reaction for me, every time
Why does it make us cry 😢
Thank you clare, for singin this extraordinaire part.
This is the greatest song on the album and one of my favorit floyd songs.
Its could'nt get better. ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
I'm 56 still listen to this music and still brings joy and tears. I will never stop
What difference does your age make….I’m 105 and who gives a F
You don't appreciate music
I’m seventy four and I listen to this regularly.
At the age of 74, I feel the same way.
@@Oh_I_Will FDP
Overdue Lifetime Vocalist Grammy award for Clare Torry.
Very few songs transcend but this one nearly fifty years on still delivers and sears ones soul😎👌
She's dead now
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 You're wrong, she's 75 and living in London: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Torry
I am a Brazillian guy. In 1974, I was living in Brasilia and was 12 yd. Then, I had the first contact with the Dark Side Of The Moon album through friends of my older sister. As an earlier rock geek, I did immediately buy it. I didn't understand English yet. Until now, my English oral comprehension level doesn't allow me to understand perfectly what many vocalists of English rock bands use to sing. But in this unique song I'm sure to have understood it instantly. Many years from then I still keep my eyes full of water whenever I hear this song. I do presume it happens to many people around the world who have heard this song when it was released, during their childhood or teenagehood, like me.
The emotional expression of dying and ascending to heaven without saying a word. This was more than just music.
Still the best sound ever, greatest gig in the sky! Thanks Clare for so many happy times.
Single greatest musical performance in history. A song we all feel at a cellular level. No song is better….
After all these years her singing is still so hauntingly beautiful ❤ I've listened to this hundreds of times over the passing decades 😊
The voice of an angel.
J'ai écouté ce morceau pour la première fois en 1974 alors que j'étais teenager et j'ai été totalement et immédiatement subjugué par la justesse et la puissance de la voix.
Depuis ce jour, à chaque fois qu'il m'est donné de réentendre ce morceau, je ressens les mêmes frissons que ceux éprouvés lors de la première écoute... Merveilleuse Clare Torry...
I have listened to almost all oversion of this songs. Clare Torry is the BEST performer in both voice, power, tone and so emotional.
Clare Torry has the voice of angel
Most emotional song I ever heard.
Claire Torry. Thank you. I first heard this masterpiece in 1972. I was lying on the floor in a hippy style house high on Mary - Jane, what wonderful days they were. It was in the middle of a rainy day in London, and I was overjoyed back the with this piece as I was 50 years ago....
CLARE not Claire.
Timelessly brilliant
This song has such deep meaning when you are diagnosed with cancer that has taken relatives all around you. I have reached remission but this song will forever be a reminder of a dark time that i came through ok
Nobody conveys the emotion of this song better than her 🩷✌️💎
I'm always covered head to toe is goosebumps upon listening to this. I get choked up, mesmerised, silent.
Merci pour elle. Clare Torry a IMPROVISE ce magnifique morceau dans un enregistrement où elle a dû marier colère, douleur et apaisement en moins de 4 mn sans un seul mot. J'en suis fou !
Si je la rencontrais je lui dirait que je l'aime.
Pour moi c'est LA chanson de l'album, depuis toujours ! Et de l'avoir spoliée durant tant d'années sur ses droits d'autrice est un véritable scandale et d'une goujaterie sans nom !
What a masterpiece. I have a 7 month old granddaughter who absolutely loves to hear this. She's already into music thanks to her daddy. Hopefully this will be her singing this. Such a shame Clare didn't get the attention that was so well deserved for this song.
I think she's gettin it now, better late than never. How many people know her name now but still can't name all the rest of the guys in the band? Hell, I can't!
A little bit of heaven brought to earth for us to listen to ... emotionally amazing ...
people, i think this is a one and only performance of a life time . i haven't heard any other vocalist catch what she did here and i doubt whether she could do repeat this one off ever again,. did they get her to do any live versions of this and if so where they ever as good ? man they caught some unique magic that day. what a gift to the world .i hope this is around as long as mankind is. for people of the future to gasp in awe. 4 odd minutes and you've catapulted yourself into history and left an indelible legacy for mankind . it's nearly a glimpse into the most exposed heart you can get of a human .nearly the most sacred music i've ever heard .or am i going overboard and getting weird ? another point as a believer ,if we could pray with this conviction, fervour and passion and all our heart, we'd get some things moving. if anybody wants to throw some prayers my way to help ,i want to be able to pray with the unrestrainedness (fully exposed no brakes on or holding back ) she brings to this . thanks .
Wonderfull comment!
There's one live at Knebworth 1990 , I believe with Clare .
I feel and always felt exactly how you so poignantly described with Clare Torry singing this masterpiece , unmatched and eternal .
Simply a genius, Clare. How have you been able to express so well and with no lyrics what you were asked to do by the leaders of Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons...THANK YOU SO MUCH
simply the very best, no challenge, many thanks Clare for this moment of pure happiness.
Clare Torry é eterna!
com certeza
CLARE TORRY WHAT A GREAT VOICE ON THE PINK FLOYD ALBUM A LIVING LEGEND 50 YEARS GONE..
She is for ever the standard reference of this song... Just touched by grace😇
Absolutely wonderful !!
Dark Side of the Moon caught me when I was youngster visiting a HiFi store in town and ever since the "Great Gig in the Sky" is the part on this album I'm waiting for when listening to this masterpiece of musical art by Pink Floyd. When I heard it for the first time I immediately realized that it will be here to stay forever and today, almost 50 years later, I know I got it right.
People, when you’re young everything is possible, just do it if you are capable
Gracias a Clare. Nadie ha podido igualar su voz en esta interpretación. Verdaderamente magistral.
The ONE AND ONLY CLARE TORRY BEAUTIFUL !! FLINT MI
Masterpiece. Definitely one of my top 5 PF songs and that's difficult to pick 5.
The real thing, no imitations accepted... So awesome... Thanks
Clare was in the dark about how to make the most of this classic song. It exhausted her midway through… but in the end she made something that is beyond beautiful… it’s priceless and will forever remain in Fans hearts
one of the most beautiful song ever...
One of the most musical composition I have ever heard. DSOTM was my first album at age 15. It NEVER gets old! I am now 60 and love it even more!
Same for me!
CLARE TORY IS A GENIUS.....!!!!!
Always love this song..Back then,,,Now And Forever.....Her vocals ring like a choir.....❤❤
Oh how i love Pink Floyd all these years amazing musicians
Perfection ! Thank You Rick. Thank You Clare.
Goosebumps, chilling , haunting, amazing … that is all
Her voice is the story... all of it... you can take away everything else and it's still a masterpiece
Thank you Pink Floyd and Clair.
She gives birth to a sound so real that even haven itself pauses to hear such beauty. Most respectfully, Michael Weeks, San Antonio, Texas.
human connection to the core, wow. A voice, and immediately I am consumed and connected. I have never felt this with any other vocal performance, when I first heard in the 70s and even now. Thank you Clare.
A very Beautiful Song, with a Beautiful Voice ,one of my all time favorites
simply the most moving voice I've ever heard.
Listened again and it made me cry.
Life, death, comforting, bold, stillness, and the creation of sparks in the way.
Thank you Clare for so much you did for my youth.
Her voice is never to be forgotten.
This tore my soul to pieces...oh my this is out of this world. Tears are streaming.
This truly is a song that can appeal to anyone,anywhere,it transcends language and makes those differences completely irrelevant.
@ronf4351 i did go figure,the thumbs down are about 3% of the total thumbs up,which leads me to belive its fair to say 3% of the population are either morons or deaf.
Still amazing after 50 years
Did she realise she sung the most beautiful song in the world?
The most amazing song ever ❤
Crazily beautiful vocal I've ever ever heard.....so mesmerising, reaching out for yr soul ! ❤ it !
To think she thought they wouldn't use it. Unforgettable.
Still makes me cry.
When you see this played now it is with two singers, speaks volumes as to Clare’s incredible performance.
Happiness,sadness,death
Resurrection,life,all in 1 tune with no words. Everyone can relate to this .
To me it’s like your life flashing by on a projector screen
Maravilhosos, divinos !!!!!!!
E ela no solo, divina, maravilhosa, me faz chorar toda vez que ouço ❤
I always thought that the woman was black because of the kind of singing associated with black singers in the U.S. where I live. The Beatles composed some great songs but Pink Floyd went above and beyond anything the Beatles did. They seem to be almost shouting warnings to us humans to avoid shallow, harmful living associated with materialism, tyranny and other negative characteristics/traits. The ending of this song where the song's tempo is slightly and quickly sped up is subtle yet so meaningful. There's so much that I can interpret just from that slight technique, and I believe Pink Floyd purposefully employed that. To me it echoes the mysterious, powerful and haunting theme about time and the meaning of life. The entire album is especially meaningful to me because a few months later after it was released, my mother's sister died on xmas day of 1973--the day she was scheduled to be released after a long bout with depression and other related problems. We were all awaiting that day but that morning forever shattered the peace and happiness of life most kids only know about life at that age. She brought a lot of those things on herself and she probably committed suicide. But I was 7 at that time and confused about why anyone would die especially on a day I used to anticipate and associate with joy and excitement. My mother's parents, one of her cousins, and my father's mother would also die almost in succession during the following 3 years---also around xmas. I was scared and confused after also watching my mother grieve during those same years. Life didn't make sense to me if loved ones were dying so quickly and in succession, at least to a child's immature and undeveloped mind. Memories of 1973-1976 are like a dark, depressing cloud to me. One of the few hopefuls things about those years is the great music that was produced like Pink Floyd's. Years later during the beginning of this century I purchased almost every single Pink Floyd album on CD. I couldn't get enough of their songs and messages. Their Animals album really helped me to avoid becoming like the dreaded characters that Pink Floyd sang about on that album. I would carefully listen to those songs and other Pink Floyd's songs on my iPod as I got off from one bus to another, struggling to get to my jobs on time. There are few philosophy rockers that equal Pink Floyd. They're not only progressive but very philosophical as well. Sometimes words aren't needed to communicate deep meanings and feelings like in this song. Their music is timeless and always applicable, probably more so today than ever.
In 1973 I was 8 years old. A year later my parents got divorced, which was rough, but no one in my family passed away until I was an adult. I can't imagine how difficult that must have been for you. I'm glad you survived it and are able to enjoy Pink Floyd despite the connection to your childhood memories.
Thanks. You’ve just inspired me to go iTunes and buy the Animals album. Will listen to it tonight.
Verdaderamente Genial la participación de esa cantante.... Este álbum de Pink Floyd ha sido todo un éxito INIGUALABLE💙💚❤💜
absolutamente com certeza.
Claires scatting will live forever! What a voice! Damn she was young. Gilmour suggested she scat. Cut to your soul!
Thank you so much Clare.. you let us dream when we was young and even now...
Their are many versions of this song but this is the definitive one.
I've always wanted this to be played at my funeral, without words it embodies by life experience. I'm seventy years old and I still want this played. I'm just closer to the funeral. And I'm okay with that.
I always go back to the original!!! Wow what a gal ❤
50 years
and it still stirs me to the core.
Masterpiece
Truly one of the greatest moments in rock history. Bow to Jimmy.
What a master piece all natural right of the top off her head no rehearsal!!!!
My belief in God is borne out by this rendition of vocal excellence and talent. Only God could release this. Listen again, people of Earth. 🙏✝️❤️
People did it all by themselves
So many happy trips back in the day , listening to this and other Floyd albums.
Even got to see them at Earls Court doing ' The Wall'.
High time indeed 😊😊😊
Clare Torry, a única que realmente soube interpretar essa linda canção composta por Richard Wright.👍👏👏👏👏👏👏