In the Flesh

In the Flesh

Song infobox
Name = In the Flesh


Artist = Pink Floyd
Album = The Wall
Released = 30 November 1979 (US), 8 December 1979 (UK)
track_no = 8 of disc 2
Recorded = April-November, 1979
Genre = Progressive rock, hard rock
Length = 4:19
Writer = Waters
Label = Harvest Records (UK)
Columbia Records (US)/Capitol Records (US)
Producer = Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour and Roger Waters
prev = "The Show Must Go On"
prev_no = 7 of disc 2
next = "Run Like Hell"
next_no = 9 of disc 2"In the Flesh" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on "The Wall" album in 1979.

Composition

The song is rather loud in dynamics. It is approximately 4 minutes, 19 seconds in length. The introduction segment of the song features the same explosive organ sequence heard in the introduction to "In the Flesh?". Following this, the song then moves into a slightly quieter, "angelic sounding" choir chorus, before the lyrical section. The end of the song features another organ sequence, and the song fades out to the chanting of "Pink Floyd", giving a sense of irony in that Pink Floyd is the main character's full name.

Plot

As with the other songs on "The Wall", "In the Flesh" tells a portion of the story of "Pink", the main protagonist. This song marks the first of a series of songs in which Pink, fuelled by a drug-induced state, likens himself to a dictator figure, crowing over his faithful audience; this particular song is his hallucination that his concerts can be likened to a political rally, and he begins to set his men on fans he considers unworthy (homosexuals, a black person, a Jew, a diseased person 'with spots', someone smoking marijuana, and a man he simply doesn't like or trust).

Personnel

*David Gilmour - ARP quadra sequencer, guitarsFitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, "Comfortably Numb - A History of The Wall 1978-1981", 2006, p. 104]
*Nick Mason - drums [Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, p. 143]
*Roger Waters - lead vocals, bass, VCS3
*James Guthrie - ARP quadra sequencer
*Freddie Mandell - organ
*Bob Ezrin - prophet-5 synthesizer
*Joe Chemay - backing vocals
*Stan Farber - backing vocals
*Jim Haas - backing vocals
*Bruce Johnston - backing vocals
*John Joyce - backing vocals
*Toni Tennille - backing vocals

Cover Version

*A cover of "In The Flesh" by Shaun Guerin appears on 2003 Pink Floyd tribute album "A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd"

*Country Teasers covered the song on their 2006 album "The Empire Strikes Back".

References

* Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd edition), 2005. ISBN 1-894959-24-8


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