Bowie sang with David Gilmour on the track 'Comfortably Numb'. (I've no idea if he's Pink Floyd or another member uses the name).

Anyway, during the song they get to the bit where Gilmour sings "When I was a child, blah blah, etc", strings are played in the background. To my ears (since I haven't compared each song), these strings sound very similar to the string arrangement by Bob Ezrin on Lou Reeds album 'Berlin', on the song 'Sad Song'.

So, does anyone know (or care), which came first? Did Pink Floyd copy the string arrangement from Lou, or vice versa?

Personally, I think Lou and Ezrin were first, simply because I know next to nothing about Pink Floyd nor the song.

Mist.

Its from 'The Wall' which came out in 1979 Michael.

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Really? Now I know almost next to nothing about Pink Floyd!!

I thought it was an album track from the early/mid 70s!

Mist.

Was it that long ago? I saw the live "Wall" at the Sports Arena. We sat next to a schoolteacher who had Roger Waters' son in her class - wonder what she said to him at their next parent-teacher conference.

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Michael Wrote ''Now I know almost next to nothing about Pink Floyd!!

I love Pink Floyd and would wholeheartedly recommend Piper at the Gates of Dawn - their first album and with Syd Barrett - plus Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you Were Here and Animals. All amazing albums imho. Not really like Bowie, although Piper (1967) draws on some of the same type of material and atmosphere as Bowie's first album.

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Mr. Bowie has spoken of the influence of Floyd - and especially of Syd Barrett. They were definitely working the same seam in the late Sixties.

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I'd agree most of the Floyd albums are pretty awesome !

I've read Bowie referencing Syd Barrett a few times, but never Pink Floyd as a group, although I'm sure he must have seen them a couple of times. I don't know much about Barrett either but two things spring to mind: An album cover where he's crouching in the corner. He'd painted the floor but did it backwards, so he was stuck in the corner until it dried!

The other is a Pink Floyd album, one from the early 70s (Dark Side Of The Moon, maybe?) Anyway after a session, one of them asked who the bald guy was that they could see through the glass, standing at the back. The producer/engineer,whomever replied 'Oh. That's Syd'!!

And that's about all I know about Pink Floyd.

Mist.

Michael, after a few beers listen to Wish You Were Here (Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Syd link), Animals, Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon. Sorry The Wall didn't float my boat!

I was told a story once a few years ago that Bowie recorded something,(I think Diamond Dogs), and whilst there, he found the master tapes to Dark Side Of The Moon or some othe PF album and he has them in his possession. Whether he legally owns them or not, I have no idea.

As you can tell, I didn't bother to check the story out, but that's what I was told.

Mist.

I would love to have seen The Wall. I missed my chance at Earls Court.

Animals,Dark Side and Wish You Where are my favs,The Wall is a great album/film too.