Song Name: The Gunner's Dream Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Final Cut Run Time: 5:07 Year: 1983 Track Number: 5 Sung By: Roger Waters Written By: Roger Waters Info:
* Tells the story and thoughts of a gunner as he falls to his death. Though never performed live by the band, it was featured in Roger Waters's 1984 and 1985 live performances.
* The 1984 renditions were extended to include a new guitar solo improvised by Eric Clapton each performance, who was touring as Waters's guitarist at the time. The 1985 versions featured a standardized solo from his replacement.
* It was taken out of Waters' setlists until 2006, when it was played in the first setlist, amongst other older Pink Floyd songs and Waters's solo works.
* The line "and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remo
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| - Song Name: The Gunner's Dream Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Final Cut Run Time: 5:07 Year: 1983 Track Number: 5 Sung By: Roger Waters Written By: Roger Waters Info:
* Tells the story and thoughts of a gunner as he falls to his death. Though never performed live by the band, it was featured in Roger Waters's 1984 and 1985 live performances.
* The 1984 renditions were extended to include a new guitar solo improvised by Eric Clapton each performance, who was touring as Waters's guitarist at the time. The 1985 versions featured a standardized solo from his replacement.
* It was taken out of Waters' setlists until 2006, when it was played in the first setlist, amongst other older Pink Floyd songs and Waters's solo works.
* The line "and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remo
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| - Song Name: The Gunner's Dream Artist: Pink Floyd Album: The Final Cut Run Time: 5:07 Year: 1983 Track Number: 5 Sung By: Roger Waters Written By: Roger Waters Info:
* Tells the story and thoughts of a gunner as he falls to his death. Though never performed live by the band, it was featured in Roger Waters's 1984 and 1985 live performances.
* The 1984 renditions were extended to include a new guitar solo improvised by Eric Clapton each performance, who was touring as Waters's guitarist at the time. The 1985 versions featured a standardized solo from his replacement.
* It was taken out of Waters' setlists until 2006, when it was played in the first setlist, amongst other older Pink Floyd songs and Waters's solo works.
* The line "and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control" is a reference to the 1981 Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings.
* The line "in the corner of some foreign field, the gunner sleeps tonight" alludes to the poem "If I Should Die Tonight" by First World War poet Rupert Brooke which contains the lines "If I should die tonight, think only this of me/ That there is a corner of some foreign field, that is forever England," as well as the 1950s hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," a modified version of a 1939 African pop song.
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