- Vera (song)
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Pink Floyd song, for other uses, seeVera "Song infobox
Name = Vera
Artist =Pink Floyd
Album =The Wall
Released =30 November 1979 (US),8 December 1979 (UK)
track_no = 4 of disc 2
Recorded = April-November,1979
Genre =Art rock /Progressive rock
Length = 1:35
Writer = Waters
Label =Harvest Records (UK)Columbia Records (US)/Capitol Records (US)
Producer =Bob Ezrin ,David Gilmour andRoger Waters
prev = "Nobody Home "
prev_no = 3 of disc 2
next = "Bring the Boys Back Home "
next_no = 5 of disc 2"Vera" is a song byPink Floyd . The name is a reference toVera Lynn , a British singer duringWorld War II and her popular song "We'll Meet Again". The reference is ironic, asRoger Waters (and his fictional character "Pink") would not meet his father, lost in the war. The lyric "Vera, what has become of you?" suggests that Vera Lynn herself, like her promise, vanished. It has also been interpreted to mean that hope is gone.The opening dialogue ("Where the hell are you, Simon?") and the sound effects are from the
1969 film "Battle of Britain".The film version of
Pink Floyd The Wall opens with a snippet of Vera Lynn singing "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot", a song about a boy — like Roger Waters — without a father. In addition, in "The Wall Live", the first track opens with Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" instead of the snippet of "Outside the Wall " that plays on the album.Recently, Roger Waters has been performing this song as an encore on his 2006 and 2007 "Dark Side of the Moon Live" tour.
Personnel
*
Roger Waters - vocals [Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, "Comfortably Numb - A History of The Wall 1978-1981", 2006, p. 96]
*David Gilmour - bass guitar [Fitch and Mahon, p. 96] , acoustic guitar [Fitch and Mahon, p. 96]
*Richard Wright - prophet-5 synthesizer [Fitch and Mahon, p. 96]
*New York Orchestra [Fitch and Mahon, p. 96]References
* Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd edition), 2005. ISBN 1-894959-24-8
In popular media
* This song was covered on the
Echoes of Pink tribute album in 2002 by Leslie King. It was on the album The Wall (disk 2)
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