With engineer Andy Jackson and co-producer Bob Ezrin, production moved to Gilmour's houseboat and recording studio, Astoria. Īfter about two weeks, the band had around 65 pieces of music. At one point, Gilmour surreptitiously recorded Wright playing, capturing material that formed the basis for three pieces of music.
If he felt the band were making progress, he would record them on a two-track DAT recorder. Without the legal problems that had dogged the production of their 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Gilmour was at ease. They recruited bassist Guy Pratt, who had joined them on their Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour according to Mason, Pratt's playing influenced the mood of the music. In January 1993, guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright began improvising new material in sessions at the remodelled Britannia Row Studios. Some of the unused material from the Division Bell sessions became part of Pink Floyd's next album, The Endless River (2014).ĭavid Gilmour's recording studio, Astoria A live album and video, Pulse, was released in 1995. Pink Floyd promoted it with a tour of the US and Europe the tour sold more than 5 million tickets and made around $100 million in gross income. In the US, it was certified double platinum in 1994 and triple platinum in 1999. The Division Bell received mixed reviews, but reached number one in more than 10 countries, including the UK and the US. The production team included longtime Pink Floyd collaborators such as producer Bob Ezrin, engineer Andy Jackson, saxophonist Dick Parry and bassist Guy Pratt. Recording took place in locations including the band's Britannia Row Studios and Gilmour's houseboat, Astoria. It was the last Pink Floyd studio album to be composed of entirely new material, and the last recorded with Wright, who died in 2008.
Gilmour's fiancée, the novelist Polly Samson, co-wrote many of the lyrics, which deal with themes of communication. It features Wright's first lead vocal on a Pink Floyd album since The Dark Side of the Moon (1973). The second Pink Floyd album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, The Division Bell was written mostly by guitarist and singer David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright. The Division Bell is the fourteenth album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States.
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