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14 tracks · 73 min
Amused to Death is a concept album, and the third studio album by former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters. It was released in 1992. The album title was attached to material that Waters began working on during the Radio K.A.O.S. tour. It was several years before the album was released (Waters refused to release it as long as his former bandmates were still on Columbia Records' roster), and it is unknown how much the material was changed in the interim. In Neil Postman's book The End of Education, he remarks on the album: "(...) Roger Waters, once the lead singer of Pink Floyd, was sufficiently inspired by a book of mine to produce a CD called Amused to Death. This fact so elevated my prestige among undergraduates that I am hardly in a position to repudiate him or his kind of music."
Waters stated in an interview with Rockline on 8 February 1993 that he wanted to use samples of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey on the album. Stanley Kubrick, the director, turned him down on the basis that it would open the door to many other people using the sound sample. Others think that Kubrick refused because Pink Floyd had not allowed him to use music from Atom Heart Mother in his film A Clockwork Orange. Waters has since then used audio of HAL describing his mind being taken away when performing the song live (as an intro, specifically during his "In the Flesh" concert tour, after Kubrick's death). Roger Waters – vocals (all tracks except 1), bass guitar (tracks 2 and 13), synthesisers (tracks 2 and 4), guitar (tracks 5, 11 and 14) Patrick Leonard – keyboards (all tracks except 6 and 7), percussion programming (track 1), choir arrangement (tracks 2, 9-11 and 13), vocals (track 4), acoustic piano (tracks 11 and 13), Hammond organ (track 5), synthesisers (tracks 5 and 13) Jeff Beck – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 5 (2015 reissue only), 10-14) Randy Jackson – bass guitar (tracks 2 and 9) Graham Broad – drums (all tracks except 1, 5, 11 and 13), percussion (tracks 6 and 7) Luis Conte – percussion (all tracks except 2, 5, 9, 11, 13 and 14) Geoff Whitehorn – guitar (tracks 2, 8, 10 and 14) Andy Fairweather Low – guitar (tracks 2, 6-9, 11 and 12), vocals (tracks 6 and 7) Tim Pierce – guitar (tracks 2, 5, 9 and 12) B.J. Cole – guitar (tracks 3 and 4) Steve Lukather – guitar (tracks 3, 4 and 8) Rick DiFonso – guitar (tracks 3 and 4) Bruce Gaitsch – guitar (tracks 3 and 4) James Johnson – bass (all tracks except 1, 2, 5, 9 and 11) Brian Macleod – snare (tracks 3 and 4), hi-hat (tracks 3 and 4) John Pierce – bass guitar (track 5) Denny Fongheiser – drums (track 5) Steve Sidwell – cornet (tracks 6 and 7) John Patitucci – bass guitar (track 11) Guo Yi & the Peking Brothers – dulcimer, lute, zhen, oboe, bass (track 11) John "Rabbit" Bundrick – Hammond organ (track 12) Jeff Porcaro – drums (track 13) Marv Albert – vocals (track 4) Katie Kissoon – vocals (tracks 2, 8, 9, 12 and 14) Doreen Chanter – vocals (tracks 2, 8, 9, 12 and 14) N'Dea Davenport – vocals (track 2) Natalie Jackson – vocals (tracks 2 and 5) P.P. Arnold – vocals (tracks 2, 3, 4 and 10) Lynn Fiddmont-Linsey – vocals (track 5) Jessica Leonard – vocals (track 8) Jordan Leonard – vocals (track 8) Don Henley – vocals (track 11) Jon Joyce – vocals (track 13) Stan Farber – vocals (track 13) (credited as Stan Laurel) Jim Haas – vocals (track 13) Rita Coolidge – vocals (track 14) Alf Razzell – vocals (tracks 1 and 14)
