This article is about the Pink Floyd album. For the bell rung in the United Kingdoms Houses of Parliament, see Division bell.
1994 studio album by Pink Floyd
The Division Bell
Artwork for original LP release
Studio album by
Pink Floyd
Released
28 March 1994 (1994-03-28)
Recorded
January–December 1993
Studio
Britannia Row, Astoria, Abbey Road, and Metropolis in London
The Creek
Genre
Progressive rock[1]
new age[2][3]
Length
66:23 (CD & 2014 LP) 58:47 (1994 LP)
Label
EMI
Columbia
Producer
Bob Ezrin
David Gilmour
Pink Floyd chronology
Shine On (1992)
The Division Bell (1994)
Pulse (1995)
Singles from The Division Bell
"Take It Back" Released: 16 May 1994
"High Hopes" / "Keep Talking" Released: 17 October 1994
The Division Bell is the fourteenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 5 April by Columbia Records in the United States.[4]
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. It features Wright's first lead vocal on a Pink Floyd album since The Dark Side of the Moon (1973). Gilmour's fiancée, the novelist Polly Samson, co-wrote many of the lyrics, which deal with themes of communication. 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.
Recording took place in locations including the band's Britannia Row Studios and Gilmour's houseboat, Astoria. The production team included longtime Pink Floyd collaborators such as producer Bob Ezrin, engineer Andy Jackson, saxophonist Dick Parry and bassist Guy Pratt.
The Division Bell received mixed reviews, but reached number one in more than 10 countries, including the UK and the US. In the US, it was certified double platinum in 1994 and triple platinum in 1999. 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. A live album and video, Pulse, was released in 1995. Some of the unused material from the Division Bell sessions became part of Pink Floyd's next album, The Endless River (2014).
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^Sterdan, Darryl (7 July 2014). "Pink Floyd's 'Division Bell' re-release primes pump for 'Endless River'". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
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