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Roxette - Joyride

Roxette - Joyride Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Joyride
Released: 1991

Joyride Lyrics

Hit the road out of nowhere, I had to jump my car
and be a rider in the love game following the stars.
don't need no book of wisdom, I get no money talk at all.
She has a train going downtown, she's got a club on the moon
and she's telling all her secrets in a wonderful balloon.

Oh she's the heart of the funfair,
she's got me whistling her private tune.
And it all begins where it ends,
and she's all mine, my magic friend

She says: Hello, you fool, I love you.
C'mon join the Joyride, join the joyride

She's a flower, I can paint her, she's a child of the sun,
we're a part of this together, could never turn around and run.
Don't need no fortune teller
to know where my lucky love belongs oh no.
Cos it all begins again when it ends,
and we're all magic friends

She says: hello, you fool, I love you.
C'mon join the joyride, be a joyrider

I take you on a skyride,
a feeling like you're spellbound.
The sunshine is a lady
who rox you like a baby.

She says: hello, you fool, I love you.
C'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
Writer/s: GESSLE, PER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Joyride

Per Gessle (the male member of the duo) wrote this for his girlfriend. He came home late and she had written a note that said, "Hej din tok, jag alskar dig", which means "Hello you fool I love you" in Swedish. Gessle used the line in the song.

John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down

John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Uh-Huh
Released: 1983

Crumblin' Down Lyrics

Some people ain't no damn good
You can't trust 'em, you can't love em
No good deed goes unpunished
And I don't mind being their whipping boy
I've had that pleasure for years and years
No, no I never was a sinner-tell me what else can I do
Second best is what you get-till you learn to bend this rules
Time respects no person-what you lift up must fall
They're waiting outside-to claim my crumblin' walls

Saw my picture in the paper
Read the news around my face
And now some people
Don't want to treat me the same

When the walls come tumblin' down
When the walls come crumblin' crumblin'
When the walls come tumblin' tumblin' down

Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy
That I'm uneducated and my opinion means nothin'
But I know I'm a real good dancer
Don't need to look over my shoulder to see what I'm after
Everybody's got their problems-ain't no new news here
I'm the same old trouble you've been having for years
Don't confuse the problem with the issue, girl,
'Cause it's perfectly clear

Just a human desire to have you come near
Want to put my arms around you
Feel your breath in my ear
You can bend me, you can break me
But you better stand clear

When the walls come tumblin' down
When the walls come crumblin' crumblin'
When the walls come tumblin' tumblin' down

Writer/s: MELLENCAMP, JOHN / GREEN, GEORGE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Crumblin' Down

Mellencamp describes this as a "political song." He told Rolling Stone in 2013: "Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything and the walls were crumbling down on the poor. the song was the last one recorded and the first single. It was a hit immediately. I felt like I was pulling the wool over everyone's eyes."

This is one of several songs Mellencamp wrote with the songwriter George Green, who was a childhood friend. Green also co-wrote "Hurts So Good," "Rain On The Scarecrow" and "Human Wheels."

Megadeth - Hangar 18

Megadeth - Hangar 18 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rust in Peace
Released: 1990

Hangar 18 Lyrics

Welcome to our fortress tall
Take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls
For you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world
Instruments to sight the stars

Possibly I've seen to much
Hangar 18 I know too much

Foreign life forms inventory
Suspended state of cryogenics
Selective amnesia's the story
Believed foretold but who'd suspect
The military Intelligence
Two words combined that can't make sense

Possibly I've seen to much
Hangar 18 I know too much

Writer/s: MUSTAINE, DAVE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Hangar 18

Hangar 18 is an Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio where the alien bodies were taken when a UFO supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. The remains were later taken to Area 51 in Nevada, and many people believe they are still there. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth explained when the album was
Released: "'Hangar 18' is about military intelligence – two words combined that don't make sense. I can't understand why they're hiding stuff from us. It's our country, too. But see, they run it, and the more I get into politics, the less I become a musician."

The video, directed by Paul Boyington, depicts an alien landing in Roswell. The song that plays at the beginning of the clip is another Rust In Peace track, "Dawn Patrol."

Dave Mustaine, who was a member of Metallica until he was fired in 1983, wrote this song. The main riff of this song is similar to Metallica's "The Call Of Ktulu" which appeared on their Ride The Lightning album. Mustaine had composer credits on that song, but he was kicked out of Metallica before the album was released.

In 2001, Megadeth recorded a sequel to this called "Return To Hangar."

This is featured as a playable song in Guitar Hero 2.

Mustaine told Rock Radio that drummer Nick Menza sealed his departure from Megadeth while the band were creating this track. He explained: "I wrote the song and called it 'N2RHQ – it was like the numbers on the side of a plane. It was a future-tech thing. It was kind of sci-fi where I would go someplace in the future into space. Not that I saw an alien. Menza is the guy who believes in UFOs. If you look at his website or if you listen to his solo music, it shows you where he's at in his life. Nick said something that I found really juvenile and offensive. He told me that Jesus was an alien and he could levitate. That was the end of me taking Nick seriously – I believed in God ever since I was a kid."

This received a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance, but lost to Mustaine's former band, Metallica, who won with their self-titled album.

Chase Rice - Ready Set Roll

Chase Rice - Ready Set Roll Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Ready Set Roll
Released: 2013

Ready Set Roll Lyrics

Ready
Set
Let's roll
Let's roll

Damn pretty girl ya' went and done it again
Ya' gone and turned your sexy all the way up to ten
I never seen a side ride seat looking so hot
Baby you rock, hit the spot
Like a fireball shot

You got me all high head spinning around and around
I'm down if you're down to burn down this town

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride
Get ya' little fine ass on the step
Shimmy up inside
Just slide girl by my side girl
Yeah we can run this town
I can rock your world
We can roll'em down, fog'em up
Cruise around, get stuck
Pedal to the metal 'til the sun comes up
I made a deal with the man on the moon
He's gonna put in some overtime
We got all night

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride

Ready, set, let's roll where the good ears and good times meet
Girl we can rev' it up right 'til we overheat
Just forget about the time get ya' lips on mine
Gotta kiss you get to know your smile
On your mark, get set

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride
Get ya' little fine ass on the step
Shimmy up inside
Just slide girl by my side girl
Yeah we can run this town
I can rock your world
We can roll'em down, fog'em up
Cruise around, get stuck
Pedal to the metal 'til the sun comes up
I made a deal with the man on the moon
He's gonna put in some overtime
We got all night

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride

You got my heart bump bumpin'
When I'm pulling up into ya' drive
Let's hit it 90 to nothing
Couple kids running into the night

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride
Get ya' little fine ass on the step
Shimmy up inside
Just slide girl by my side girl
Yeah we can run this town
I can rock your world
We can roll'em down, fog'em up
Cruise around, get stuck
Pedal to the metal 'til the sun comes up
I made a deal with the man on the moon
He's gonna put in some overtime
We got all night

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride

Ready, set, let's roll
Ready, set, let's ride
Get ya' fine little ass on the step
Shimmy up inside

Yeah we can run this town
You know I'll rock your world, come on
Let's roll, let's ride
Let's run this town tonight

Ready
Set
Let's roll
Let's roll

Writer/s: DESTEFANO, CHRIS / AKINS, RHETT / RICE, CHASE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Ready Set Roll

Chase Rice penned this song with Rhett Akins and Chris DeStefano. He told Roughstock that it was his first collaboration with the two Nashville songwriters. "We had a different title … a title with the word 'night' in it, which is a very popular word right now," he recalled. "We just kind of worked toward that topic, and started dropping lines here and there. I dropped the line 'Damn pretty girl you went and done it again. Turned your sexy all the way up to 10.' That was what started the write and made me feel comfortable in the write."

"With new writers, you never know how it's going to go," Rice continued. "I knew Rhett real well, but I'd never written with him. First thing he said was yeah, I like that. He was just very relaxed. I thought it would be different because he's the big time songwriter. I've only got one hit. We all meshed real well together. Then I threw out the 'Ready set let's roll' at the top of the chorus. We decided that was so catchy, let's do it again. So that turned into the chorus."

Rice was so impressed with how the song came together that he asked Chris DeStefano to produce and Rhett Akins to executive produce his Ignite The Night album. "By the end of the day we went from that [writing 'Ready Set Roll'] to hearing what Chris did in the studio," Rice told Radio.com . "While we were writing the song he was building the track that made it sound like it sounds on radio today. At the end of the day we had a full song. I heard it and was like, 'Why would I do this with any other producer?'"

"'Ready Set Roll' was a big day," he added. "I found my producer. I found my executive producer and I wrote a Gold Record."

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show - Sylvia's Mother

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show - Sylvia's Mother Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Released: 1971

Sylvia's Mother Lyrics

Sylvia's Mother says Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's trying, to start a new life of her own.
Sylvia's mother says "Sylvia's happy
So why don't you leave her alone?"
And the operator says : "Forty cents more, for the next three minutes."

Please Mrs. Avery, I've just got to talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, just want to tell her
Goodbye.

Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's packing, she's going be leaving today.
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's marrying, a fellow down Galveston-Way
Sylvia's mother says "Please don't say nothing...
To make her start crying and stay."
And the operator says : "Forty cents more, for the next three minutes."

Please Mrs. Avery, I've just got to talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, just want to tell her
Goodbye

Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's hurrying,
She's catching the nine o'clock train.
Sylvia's mother says: "Take your umbrella,
Cause Sylvia it's starting to rain."
And Sylvia's mother says "Thank you for calling.
And sir won't you come back again."
And the operator says :" Forty cents more,
For the next three minutes."

Please Mrs. Avery, I've just got to talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, just want to tell her
Goodbye

Tell her goodbye
Please, tell her goodbye
Goodbye

Writer/s: SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
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Sylvia's Mother

Like most of the early songs recorded by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, this was written by Shel Silverstein. Silversteen was a brilliant storyteller with a vivid imagination, but this story was real.

In the song, Sylvia's mother is Mrs. Avery, and while that wasn't her real last name, the rest of the story - exaggerated a bit - was true. Silversteen told Rolling Stone in 1972: "I just changed the last name, not to protect the innocent, but because it didn't fit. It happened about eight years ago and was pretty much the way it was in the song. I called Sylvia and her mother said, 'She can't talk to you.' I said, 'Why not?' Her mother said she was packing and she was leaving to get married, which was a big surprise to me. The guy was in Mexico and he was a bullfighter and a painter. At the time I thought that was like being a combination brain surgeon and encyclopedia salesman. Her mother finally let me talk to her, but her last words were, 'Shel, don't spoil it.' For about ten seconds I had this ego charge, as if I could have spoiled it. I couldn't have spoiled it with a sledge hammer."

The real Sylvia kept her secret to all but a few family and friends. Remarkably, it was a Dutch public television producer named Arjan Vlakveld who found not only Sylvia, but also Sylvia's mother. Arjan told us: "The search for Sylvia was a big coincidence. I was having a glass of wine in the garden of my brother. He had quests and there was an American woman who after I explained what kind of things I produced, told me the story about Sylvia and her mother, who she knew. It was an old story because it was about her mother working on a high school with "sylvia's mother." She was already old in the time of her story. She didn't knew if it was true but the woman had claimed ones that she was the mother in the song. I only had a few names to go on and ended up in a telephone conversation with Sylvia Pandolfi, who at that time was a museum director in Mexico City.(Down galveston way in the song meant in het real life that she was getting married to a mexican and moving there).

So I asked her the question: Are you by any chance the Sylvia in the song 'Sylvia's Mother?' She was very surprised because nobody knew, it was a personal and family story, she never told anyone. I filmed the interview with her mother in Homewood, Illinois. The same house where she had the telephone call with Shell Silverstein, probably even the same telephone number. She was 95 years at that time."

Here is the segment on Sylvia and her mother .

The band had two lead singers: Ray Sawyer (with the eye patch) and Dennis Locorriere. It was Locorriere, then 20 years old, who sang on this one, delivering the vocal with sincere sorrow. Many of Shel Silverstein's songs for the band were works of comedy ("Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie," "The Cover Of Rolling Stone), and Dr. Hook had a bawdy stage show that wasn't to be taken seriously, so not everyone picked up that this was a serious song about heartbreak. "A surprising number of people thought it was a parody but I always saw it as a truly heartbreaking story and I did my best to portray the anxiety and sadness that I knew that poor guy in the phone booth would be feeling," Locorriere told us. Dr. Hook's next single, "Carry Me, Carrie," was another serious heartbreak song written by Silverstein.

Silverstein was a popular author and songwriter, who wrote for both children and adults. He was a writer and cartoonist for Playboy magazine, and a best-selling author of children's poems. He wrote "A Boy Named Sue" for Johnny Cash and another hit song for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: "Cover Of The Rolling Stone." He died of a heart attack in 1999 at age 68. Learn more about Shel Silverstein in our interview with Mitch Myers.

After this song became a hit, audience members would sometimes throw coins at the band Rocky Horror-style at the line "40 cents more." This could hurt quite a bit, especially when they were launched from the balcony.

This was the first single released by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, who later became simply Dr. Hook. While they were playing bars in the New Jersey area, they got a gig appearing in the movie Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, and signed with Columbia/CBS Records, which is the label that released the soundtrack for the film. "Sylvia's Mother" was their first single; it made the Hot 100 at #99 for one week when it was first released, but months later, after CBS (led by Clive Davis) started promoting it, it took off and became a hit.

After the band had been performing this song for a while, Shel Silverstein wrote a new version for them called "Sylvia's Father." Only the end of the song was different, with the last verse changed to:
Sylvia's father says Sylvia's pregnant and you went and made her that way
Sylvia's father says you motherf--ker I'm gonna kill you someday

At this point, Dennis Locorriere would do a rant about the no-good scoundrel that knocked up Sylvia. This version was never recorded.

In the UK, this was kept out of the #1 spot by Donny Osmond's "Puppy Love."

John Mellencamp - Women Seem

John Mellencamp - Women Seem Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cuttin' Heads
Released: 2001

Women Seem Lyrics

Women Seem

The Kinks' frontman Ray Davies provided the impetus for this song: "That's just me plagiarizing Ray Davies," Mellencamp admitted in the liner notes for the On The Rural Route 7609 box set: "Don't forget, I did something like 150 shows with the Kinks over a three-year period, and everything I've learned about being a live performer is from Ray."

Cantona - So Sad (So Fine)

Cantona - So Sad (So Fine) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: A Sort Of Smile
Released: 2004

So Sad (So Fine) Lyrics

So Sad (So Fine)

The line, "The train to Brooklyn won't carry you this time" is one of the most recognizeable lines in the song. The song was singer Leslie Beattie's musical response to a well known Brooklyn-based band's 2002 album. Beattie claims that it was carelessly written after watching a program on the Brooklyn Bridge. She was stuck on a lyric and thought the syllables fit.

Cantona work quickly when it comes to songwriting. Guitarist Glenn Pittaway will bring in a riff or full song, and drummer Shawn Allen and bassist Erik Noren quickly build onto it. Beattie adds words and melodies at the end.

John Mellencamp - Rural Route

John Mellencamp - Rural Route Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Freedom's Road
Released: 2007

Rural Route Lyrics

Little girl disappeared and gone
From the Rural Route
Seven days missing something's wrong
On the rural route
Amber alert all over the nation
From the rural route
Two lane highway full of cops
On the rural route
Rural route

Police dogs howl from wire cages
On the rural route
Last seen leavin' a trailer
On the rural route
Just walkin' home alone
On the rural route
Newspaper prints her fifth grade picture
From the rural route
Rural route

Air stinks of crystal meth
On the rural route
Some one predicts a young girl's death
On the rural route
Father refuses to answer any questions
From the rural route
The man he runs around with comes up missing
Off the rural route
Rural route

Twenty miles away by a lake
On the rural route
Girl's body's found, it's been raped
By the rural route
Twenty-eight year old friend of the father
Arrested on the rural route
Father traded his daughter for favors
On the rural route
Rural route
Rural route

Here's my prayer loud and clear
From the rural route
Forgive us Lord, get us out of here
Off this rural route
Oh merciful Father, show us the will
Here on the rural route
Give us the mercy for the drug-addicted
And the mentally ill
On the rural route

Writer/s: MELLENCAMP
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Rural Route

Speaking with Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis, Mellencamp explained the song originated with, "a phone call from my mother, who said that the body of a 10-year-old girl who'd been raped and killed had been found not far from where my parents live."

The last verse, he added, "prays for forgiveness, because nobody could have done such a gruesome thing if they had been in their right mind. When you live out here in the middle of nowhere, it's easy to get lost."

Booker T. & the MG's - Time Is Tight

Booker T. & the MG's - Time Is Tight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Uptight
Released: 1968

Time Is Tight Lyrics

Time Is Tight

Booker T. & the MG's were the house band for Stax Records, but they released some albums under their name. They recorded this in the mid-'60s and reworked it in the late-'60s as the theme for the film Up Tight.

After the demise of Booker T. & the MG's, band members Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn joined The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd), who used this in the introduction to their live show.

A famous cover of the song emerged by UK punk band The Clash, who would often use the song as a live warm-up. The Attractions' Steve Nieve contributed some piano lines in the recorded version, which was done at Marquee Studios in March 1978 before being completed by producer Bill Price in August 1979 during the London Calling sessions for inclusion on the US rarities compilation Black Market Clash. It featured only once live for the band, as the set opener to a show in Los Angeles in April 1980.

Kate Bush - The Fog

Kate Bush - The Fog Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Sensual World
Released: 1989

The Fog Lyrics

You see, I'm all grown-up now
He said
"Just put your feet down child
'Cause you're all grown-up now."
Just like a photograph I pick you up
Just like a station on the radio
I pick you up
Just like a face in the crowd
I pick you up
Just like a feeling that you're sending out
I pick it up
But I can't let you go
If I let you go
You slip into The Fog

This love was big enough for the both of us.
This love of yours,
Was big enough to be frightened of
It's deep and dark like the water was
The day I learned to swim.
He said "Just put your feet down child
Just put your feet down child
The water is only waist high
I'll let go of you gently
Then you can swim to me."

Is this love big enough to watch over me
Big enough to let go of me?
Without hurting me
Like the day I learned to swim.
"'Cause you're all grown-up now
Just put your feet down child
The water is only waist high.
I'll let go of you gently
Then you can swim to me."

Writer/s: BUSH, KATE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The Fog

Featuring classical violinist Nigel Kennedy and some seagull imitations, this song is about trying to grow up. "Growing up for most people is just trying to stop escaping, looking at things inside yourself rather than outside," Bush told NME. "But I'm not sure if people ever grow up properly, it's a continual process, growing in a positive sense."

Kate's physician father contributed the spoken word dialogue. Doctor Bush is also an accomplished pianist.

Deftones - Moana

Deftones - Moana Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Deftones
Released: 2003

Moana Lyrics

Somehow calm as she walks on stage
Her entire empire becomes your taste
Your taste
Show me
Come

Let me know what you're like
Let me know what you're like
What's your taste?

I bet she carves your heart when she walks onstage
Her empire slowly becomes your place
Your place
Show me
Come

Let me know what you're like
Let me know what you're like
In your place, your place (place)

Somehow calm as she walks offstage
An entire empire recall your face
Your face
Show me
Come

Let me know what you're like
Let me know what you're like
Your face, your face
(Hopelessly devoted)

Writer/s: MORENO, CHINO CAMILO / CARPENTER, STEPHEN / CHENG, CHI / CUNNINGHAM, ABE / DELGADO, FRANK
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Moana

"Moana" is the Māori (New Zealand native) word for the sea. It's pronounced Mo-a-na.

Kate Bush - Rocket's Tail

Kate Bush - Rocket's Tail Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Sensual World
Released: 1989

Rocket's Tail Lyrics

That Novenber night, looking up into the sky.
You said "Hey wish that was me up there
It's the biggest rocket I could find
And it's holding the night in its arms
If for only a moment.
I can't see the look in its eyes
But I'm sure it must be laughing."
But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen
And I thought you were crazy wishing such a thing.

I saw only a stick on fire
Alone on its journey
Home to the quickening ground
With no one there to catch it.

I put on my pointed hat
And my black and silver suit
And I check my gunpowder pack
And I strap the stick on my back
And dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge
Nobody seemed to see me
Then with the fuse in my hand
And now shooting into the night
And still as a rocket
I land in the river.

Was it me said you were crazy?
I put on my cloudiest suit
Size 5 lightening boots too
'Coz I am a rocket
On fire
Look at me go with my tail on fire
With my tail on fire
On fire
Hey, look at me go, look at me

Writer/s: BUSH, KATE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Rocket's Tail

This song features backing vocals by Trio Bulgarka, a traditional Bulgarian vocal ensemble that appears throughout The Sensual World. "Rocket's actually my cat, but it was written for the Bulgarian girls," Bush explained to NME. "Ridiculous collection of images, nothing to do with Rocket really, he just started it all off. At the time the only song I could think of that mentioned rockets was 'Rocket Man' but since then there has been about three of them. I feel a bit like the Python sketch with that guy making eight-millimetre films saying 'Hitchcock had his Rear Window out while mine was still at the chemists'."

Bush actually recorded "Rocket Man" a couple of years later for the tribute album Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin. Her reggae-inflected cover was a commercial success, peaking at #12 on the UK singles chart. In 2007 it won The Observer readers' award for Greatest Cover of all time.

The song features guitar by Bush's early music mentor, Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour.