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**Usagi's Misfortune! Watch Out for the Rushing Clocks** (うさぎの災難! あわて時計にご用心, ***Usagi no Sainan! Awate Dokei ni Goyoujin***) is the 9th episode of *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon*, and also the 9th episode of the Sailor Moon anime series overall.

This episode is the 6th episode of the DiC dub and its title is "**Time Bomb**." While the Viz title is "**Usagi’s Disaster: Beware of the Clock of Confusion**."

## Summary

The Dark Kingdom creates chaos in Tokyo by distributing cursed clocks that alter the time perception of their owners.

## Major Events

* Sailor Mercury receives her mini-supercomputer and Mercury Goggles.

## Characters

### Sailor Senshi

* Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon
* Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury

### Villains

* Queen Beryl
* Jadeite
* Youma

### Secondary Characters

* Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask
* Ikuko Tsukino
* Kenji Tsukino
* Naru Osaka
* Gurio Umino
* Haruna Sakurada

## Trivia

* Usagi and Ami were shopping in Tokyo's Harajuku district, which is known for its trendy shops and wild fashions.

## DiC Dub Edits

* The scenes showing Serena riding on the bus were flipped so that the bus was on the right side of the road, like in North America, instead of on the left side of the road, like in Japan. However, after the bus crashed into the pole, the scene was not flipped, and the door was on the wrong side of the bus.
* The scene in which the woman on the bus strangled the bus driver was also cut, though there was a brief glimpse of her getting ready to do so.
* The 1,000 yen bill in Serena's wallet had the last two zeros erased to make it look like a ten dollar bill.
* The scene showing Jadeite speaking to Ramua was flipped.
Ikuko Tsukino

## Ikuko Tsukino月野育子, Tsukino Ikuko

**Ikuko Tsukino** (月野育子, ***Tsukino Ikuko***) is a minor character. She is Kenji Tsukino's wife, and Usagi Tsukino and Shingo Tsukino's mother.

## Bio

### Personality

Ikuko is a kind woman with motherly nature, though she could be strict concerning Usagi and Shingo's academic performances.

### Relationships

**Usagi Tsukino**: She deeply cares about her, although she scolds Usagi for her poor performance on a test at school and literally throw her out of the house.

**Chibiusa**: She cares about her and treats her like how she treats Usagi and Shingo. She is unaware of her being her future granddaughter.

**Chibi Chibi**: Chibi Chibi lives with the Tsukinos, and Ikuko treated her like a daughter.

## Trivia

* She is named after Naoko Takeuchi's real-life mother.
* She admitted in episode 16 that she lacked proficiency at sewing, just like her daughter.
* In the DiC dub, it was stated that her birthday is October 10th.
Naru Osaka

## Naru Osaka大阪なる, Osaka Naru

**Naru Osaka** (大阪なる, ***Osaka Naru***) (or **Molly Baker** in the DiC dub) is a supporting character. She is Usagi Tsukino's closest friend. She is a student at Juban Junior High School. Her mother owns a jewelry store called **Osa-P** (ジュエリ, ***Osa-P***).

## Bio

### Appearance

Naru has wavy red hair that is slightly shorter than her shoulders and often wears a darker teal bow in her hair, she has teal eyes.
Gurio Umino

## Gurio Umino海野ぐりお, Umino Gurio

**Gurio Umino** (海野ぐりお, ***Umino Gurio***) (or **Melvin** in the DiC dub) is a supporting character. He is usually called by his family name and well-meaning and socially awkward and is a classmate of Usagi Tsukino and Naru Osaka. His usual function is to provide the girls with vital information.

## Bio

### Appearance

Gurio has blondish hair, his eye color is unknown since it is unknown how he looks like without glasses. Naoko Takeuchi confirmed that he looks handsome without his glasses.

### Etymology

**Gurio** (ぐりお): It is written in hiragana and has no exact meaning.

**Umino** (海野): The umi (海) translates to ocean, and the no (野) translates to field or civilian.
Sailor Senshi

**Sailor Senshi** (セーラー戦士, ***Sērā Senshi*** ,*Lit. Sailor Soldiers*) (or **Sailor Scouts** in the First English dub, or **Sailor Guardians** in the Viz dub) is the main term to describe female warriors with magical powers. They were all associated with a specific planet or heavenly body, and their powers often manifested themselves as the ability to manipulate particular elements. Their association with their celestial body was generally manifested in the form of a planetary symbol which appeared on their foreheads at certain points, or appeared as a motif in their costumes or items.

In many cases, Sailor Senshi had a civilian form in which they spent most of their time. By use of an item such as a transformation pen or brooch, they could assume their Sailor Senshi form at will. Although transforming into a Sailor Senshi usually involved nothing more radical than a change of outfit, outside observers were not usually able to recognize even close friends or family members once they had assumed Sailor Senshi form. The mechanism that caused this was not known, although it was just as effective upon Sailor Senshi themselves as it was upon non-Senshi.

## Solar System Sailor Senshi

* **Usagi Tsukino** (月野うさぎ, ***Tsukino*** ***Usagi***) / **Sailor Moon** (セーラームーン, ***Sērā Mūn***)
* **Ami Mizuno** (水野亜美, ***Mizuno Ami***) / **Sailor Mercury** (セーラーマーキュリー, ***Sērā Mākyurī***)
* **Rei Hino** (日野レイ, ***Hino Rei***) / **Sailor** **Mars** (セーラーマーズ, ***Sērā Māzu***)
* **Makoto Kino** (木野まこと, ***Kino Makoto***) / **Sailor Jupiter** (セーラージュピター, ***Sērā Jupitā***)
* **Minako Aino** (愛野美奈子, ***Aino Minako***) / **Sailor Venus** (セーラーヴィーナス, ***Sērā*** ***Vu~īnasu***)
* **Chibiusa** (ちびうさ, ***Chibiusa***) / **Sailor** **Chibi Moon** (セーラーちびムーン, **Sērā** ***Chibi Mūn***)
Luna

**Luna** (ルナ, ***Runa***) is a cat-like mascot from the Sailor Moon anime series. She is an advisor to Sailor Moon.

## Bio

### Appearance

Luna is a black cat with a crescent mark on her forehead, which is mistaken as a bald spot.

## Trivia

* According to the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: The Movie Nakayoshi Anime Album, Luna in human form was the same height as Usagi.
Sailor Moon music releases

## Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Music Collection - May 1992
* Where Can Love Be Found? - July 1992
* In Another Dream - November 1992
* Brass Fantasy - September 1994

## Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R

* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R Music Collection - April 1993
* Heading Towards the Future - June 1993
* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R: The Movie Music Collection - April 1993
* Symphonic Poem - April 1994
* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R The Maiden's Poem Collection - April 1994
* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Music Fantasy - June 1994
* Brass Fantasy - September 1994

## Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S

* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S Music Collection - June 1994
* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Music Fantasy - June 1994
* Uranus, Neptune, Chibi Moon, Plus - September 1994
* Brass Fantasy - September 1994
Motoki Furuhata

## Motoki Furuhata古幡元基, Furuhata Motoki

**Motoki Furuhata** (古幡元基, ***Furuhata Motoki***) is a supporting character who runs the Game Center Crown. He was assumed to be Tuxedo Mask by Usagi, and had a crush on him along with Makoto. He attends K.O. University.

## Bio

### Appearance

Motoki is fairly tall and has blonde hair with green eyes. He usually wears a white long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and orange shoes with an apron while at work.

### Personality

Motoki is a nice guy, as he treats the Sailor Senshi as younger sisters. Although he is aware of their attraction towards

## Trivia

* Motoki's favorite food is hayashi rice. BSSM29
Moonlight Legend

**Moonlight Densetsu** (ムーンライ伝説, ***Mūnraito Densetsu***, *Lit. Moonlight Legend*) is the opening theme of *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon*, *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R*, *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S*, and *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS*, it is also the ending of *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars* episode 34. It was sung by DALI for the first and second seasons, and by Moon Lips for the third and fourth seasons. The song debuted on March 7th, 1992.
Moon Tiara Action

**Moon Tiara Action** (ムーンチアラアクション, ***Mūn Tiara Akushon***) (named **Moon Tiara Magic** and **Moon Tiara Vaporize** in the DiC dub) is Sailor Moon's first finisher that was first used in episode 1.

## Description

Sailor Moon pulls off her tiara, and it turns into a golden-light energy disc and throws it at the enemy. Turning the enemy into dust.

## Moon Tiara Stardust

**Moon Tiara Stardust** (ムーンチアラスターダスト, ***Mūn Tiara Sutādasuto***) is a variation of Moon Tiara Action that was only used in episode 5.

### Description

Unlike Moon Tiara Action, this isn't an offensive attack. After throwing the tiara, the tiara stands on the victim and reverses the effect from the enemy.

## Trivia

* Episode 10 revealed the tiara was also capable of expanding and then shrinking to trap an enemy in a ring of light.
* In episode 23, it was revealed that the attack can be aborted.
* In episode 27, Sailor Moon placed the tiara on Bunbo's forehead to cleanse him of the extra dark energy Zoisite had imbued him with, making him vulnerable to Moon Healing Escalation again.
* In episode 32, she used the tiara as a physical weapon to knock out Akan without causing him further damage.
* Sailor Moon mainly used Moon Tiara Action in the first season. In *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R*, the attack stopped working as a finishing move, and she received a new weapon: the Cutie Moon Rod. After this she did not use this attack very often, though it was used in Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R: The Movie and Bishoujo Senshi Sailor SuperS: The Movie, and then a couple of times during Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S and Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS, as a distracting and harming maneuver.
	+ When Sailor Moon used this attack in the SuperS movie to destroy a Bonbon Baby, the tiara took the shape of a crescent moon and it emitted white light instead of the usual golden light.
* In *Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars*, Eternal Sailor Moon performed an unusual version of Moon Tiara Action using a pizza due to not having a tiara in her Eternal form.
* When Sailor Moon performed this attack in the first episode, the background was green instead of blue. In the English dub of that episode, the playback was sped up, making the background music a different pitch than in all later episodes and the attack speed a little faster.
Sailor Moon (series)

**Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon** (美少女戦士セーラームーン, ***Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn***, Lit. *Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon*, later Pretty *Guardian Sailor Moon*.) is a magical girl anime series based on the manga series by Naoko Takeuchi, and produced by Toei Animation.

## Sailor Moon Seasons

### Episode Lists

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon episodes

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R episodes

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S episodes

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS episodes

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars episodes

### Other

* Sailor Moon Dubs
* Sailor Says

## Movies

* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R: The Movie
* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: The Movie
* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie

### Specials

* Make Up! Sailor Senshi
* Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS Special
* Ami's First Love

## Fiction

### Phrases

#### Sailor Moon & Sailor Chibi Moon

* Moon Prism Power, Make Up
* Moon Crystal Power, Make Up
* Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up
* Crisis, Make Up
* Moon Crisis, Make Up
* Moon Eternal, Make Up

#### Sailor Mercury

* Mercury Power, Make Up
* Mercury Star Power, Make Up
* Mercury Crystal Power, Make Up

#### Sailor Mars

* Mars Power, Make Up
* Mars Star Power, Make Up
* Mars Crystal Power, Make Up

#### Sailor Jupiter

* Jupiter Power, Make Up
* Jupiter Star Power, Make Up
* Jupiter Crystal Power, Make Up

#### Sailor Venus

* Venus Power, Make Up
* Venus Star Power, Make Up
* Venus Crystal Power, Make Up

## Music

***Main Article: Sailor Moon music releases***

* Opening Themes
* Ending Themes
Ami Mizuno

## Ami Mizuno水野亜美, Mizuno Ami

**Ami Mizuno** (水野亜美, ***Mizuno Ami***) is one of the ten main Sailor Senshi. She is a student at Juban Public Middle School and later a student at Juban Public Middle School.

Ami is the incarnation of and transforms into the Pretty Soldier of Love and Intelligence, **Sailor Mercury** (セーラーマーキュリー, ***Sērā Mākyurī***).

## Bio

### Appearance

Ami has blue, short hair that reaches her neck, and blue eyes.

### Personality

Ami is a shy girl who doesn't make friends easily, preferring to be alone with her books instead. Her classmates mistake her withdrawn nature for arrogance, so they did not approach her either until Usagi started doing so. She studies very hard and regularly finished at the top of national exams, leading her classmates to speculate that she is a superhuman and has an IQ of 300. Math and science are her favorite subjects, and she aimed to become a doctor like her mother. Usually calm and level-headed, she is the voice of reason of the Senshi team. The others often rely on her plans and analyses, but they often think she should "loosen up" more.

harming innocent people. This trais even cided in the title Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S episode 33, where she persuades Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune not to kill Hotaru. Like her comrades, her loyalty to Sailor Mooas unwavering, and she would sacrifice her life for her princess if necessary.

## Sailor Mercury

Sailor Mercury (セーラーマーキュリー, Sērā Mākyurī) is Ami's Sailor Senshi alias. She transforms using the Transformation Pen, the Star Power Stick, and later the Crystal Change Rod.
Southampton Dock

"**Southampton Dock**" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album, *The Final Cut*. In World War II, many soldiers departed from Southampton to fight against the Germans. In the eighties, Southampton was again used as a departure base, this time for the Falklands War. The song describes a woman who "bravely waves" the soldiers "Goodbye again".

The song includes a snippet of the theme from the track "It's Never Too Late", a song originally written and recorded for *The Wall* but was cut before the final band production demo of August 12, 1979. "It's Never Too Late" was later reworked and the melody was incorporated into the second section of "Southampton Dock".

Roger Waters repeatedly performed the song on his solo tours; a live recording (prefaced by "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert", another song from *The Final Cut*) appears on his album In the Flesh – Live.

## Reception

In a review for *The Final Cut*, Patrick Schabe of *PopMatters* described "Southampton Dock" as an example of where the album works best, and described the song's imagery as "subtle, poetic, and effective."

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – acoustic guitar, bass and vocals

with:

* Michael Kamen – piano and orchestrations
The Gnome

"**The Gnome**" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. Written by Syd Barrett, it is the eighth song on their 1967 debut album, *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn*. The song takes place in a fictional gnome world from the perspective of a gnome.

## Background

The song tells the tale of a scarlet tunic wearing gnome named Grimble Gromble. The lyrics ostensibly "came off the top [of Barrett's] head". "The Gnome" was included on the B-side of the US Pink Floyd single "Flaming" (Tower 378), which was never released in the UK.

## Personnel

* Syd Barrett – acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, lead vocals
* Roger Waters – bass guitar, backing vocals
* Richard Wright – celesta, vibraphone, backing vocals
* Nick Mason – temple blocks, cymbal
Empty Spaces

"**Empty Spaces**" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It appears on the 1979 album *The Wall*. It contains a backmasked message.

## Composition

The song is in the key of E minor, and is two minutes, eight seconds in length. It features a long introductory section, with solo guitar and a repetitive drumbeat, and an airport announcement, as a reference to Pink heading for a concert tour. The song reaches a climax of tension, at which point Roger Waters plays a descending blues scale over the minor dominant, B minor, cueing the start of the vocals. Roger Waters sings a short verse, ending on the phrase *"How shall I complete the wall?"* This track shares a backing track with "What Shall We Do Now?", sped up from D to E, with new guitar and vocals. The last beat introduces the next song, "Young Lust".

## Plot

*The Wall* tells the story of Pink, an alienated and embittered rock star. At this point in the narrative, Pink is now grown up and married, but he and his wife are having relationship problems because of his physical distance and nearly complete emotional "wall". Pink asks himself how he should complete its construction.

## Movie and live versions

On the film adaptation the song is dropped in favour of "What Shall We Do Now?", and on the recording of the live performance of this album, this song serves as an intro to "What Shall We Do Now?".

## Hidden message

Directly before the lyrical section, there is a hidden message isolated on the left channel of the song. When heard normally, it appears to be nonsense. If played backwards, the following can be heard:

–Hello looker...
–Congratulations, You have just discovered the secret message.
–Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont...
–Roger, Carolyne's on the phone!
–Okay.
Roger Waters congratulates the listener for finding this message, and jokes that they can send their answer to "Old Pink" (being either a reference to Syd Barrett, or a foreshadowing of Pink's eventual insanity), who lives in a funny farm (a term to describe a psychiatric hospital) somewhere in Chalfont. Before he can reveal the exact location, however, he gets interrupted by producer James Guthrie in the background who says Carolyne (Waters' then wife) is on the phone.

## Personnel

* David Gilmour – guitars, Prophet-5 and ARP Quadra synthesizers
* Nick Mason – drums (only in the full version of the song, "What Shall We Do Now?")
* Roger Waters – lead vocals, bass, EMS VCS 3 synthesizer
* Richard Wright – piano

with:

* James Guthrie – ARP Quadra synthesizer

## Further reading[edit source]

* Fitch, Vernon. *The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia* (3rd edition), 2005. ISBN 1-894959-24-8.
One of the Few

"**One of the Few**" is a song by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released as the third track on *The Final Cut* album in 1983. The song is 1 minute and 12 seconds long. It features a ticking clock in the background and a steady drumbeat. The melody features most of the D minor scale. The lyrics describe a war veteran's return from the battlefield (specifically a pilot from the Battle of Britain, commonly known as The Few) to pursue teaching. The ticking clock continues to the next track, "The Hero's Return", which is sung from the veteran's perspective. This is one of the rejected songs from *The Wall,* and its working title was "Teach".

The lyrics "*Make 'em laugh, Make 'em cry*" in the third and final verse of the song is reprised in the third verse of "Not Now John" which is the twelfth track on *The Final Cut*.

The title, "One of the Few," is a reference to Winston Churchill’s speech before the House of Commons on August 20, 1940 in which he stated “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” in reference to the Royal Air Force's defence of Great Britain.

The song was also covered by British rock band *Anathema* on their album *Alternative 4*.

## Reception

In a retrospective review for *The Final Cut*, Rachel Mann of *The Quietus* described "One of the Few" as "plaintive and consciously echoes Wilfred Owen's poem *The Send Off*, with its talk of siding sheds and the trains ready to take young men to their deaths."

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, bass guitar
The Fletcher Memorial Home

"**The Fletcher Memorial Home**" is a song by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd. The song appears on their 1983 album, *The Final Cut*. It is the eighth track on the album and is arranged between "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" and "Southampton Dock". The song is also featured on the Pink Floyd compilations *Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd* and *A Foot in the Door – The Best of Pink Floyd*.

## History

The song is about Waters' frustration with the leadership of the world since World War II, mentioning many world leaders by name (Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig, Menachem Begin, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Paisley, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon), suggesting that these "colonial wasters of life and limb" be segregated into a specially-founded retirement home. It labels all the world leaders as "overgrown infants" and "incurable tyrants" and suggests they are incapable of understanding anything other than violence or their own faces on a television screen.

In its concluding lines, the narrator of the song gathers all of the "tyrants" inside the Fletcher Memorial Home and imagines applying "the Final Solution" to them.

*Fletcher* in the name of the song is in honour and remembrance of Roger Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, who was killed during the Second World War at Anzio.

The Fletcher Memorial Home scenes in *The Final Cut* film were filmed at Forty Hall in Enfield.

## Reception

In a review for *The Final Cut*, Patrick Schabe of *PopMatters* described "The Fletcher Memorial Home" as "majestic, but clunky".

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – vocals, bass guitar
* David Gilmour – guitar
* Nick Mason – drums

with:

* The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted and arranged by Michael Kamen
* Michael Kamen – piano
Burning Bridges

"**Burning Bridges**" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1972 album *Obscured by Clouds*. It shares a similar tune to the instrumental "Mudmen" on the same album.

## Composition and vocals

It consists of an organ melody written by Richard Wright, with David Gilmour and Wright as a duet, singing the lyrics by Roger Waters.

The song is performed in 6/4.

## Live performances

The song was performed live by Mason in 2022, with his band Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets.

## Personnel

* David Gilmour – electric guitar, slide guitar, lead vocals
* Richard Wright – Hammond organ, lead vocals
* Roger Waters – bass guitar
* Nick Mason – drums, percussion
Two Suns in the Sunset

"**Two Suns in the Sunset**" is the closing track on Pink Floyd's 1983 concept album *The Final Cut*, and Roger Waters' final chronological contribution to the band, before leaving in 1985.

Since there was no promotional tour for *The Final Cut*, and this album was entirely ignored by Gilmour, Wright and Mason during the tours for *A Momentary Lapse of Reason* and *The Division Bell*, "Two Suns in the Sunset" was never performed live by Pink Floyd. However, Roger Waters, as a solo artist, premiered the song almost 35 years after its release in a concert from the Us + Them Tour, held on 17 October 2018 at Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Waters also played it in 2022 on his 2022–23 show This Is Not a Drill.

## Lyrics and music

Partway through the song, the lyric "the sun is in the east, even though the day is done" refers to the glowing fireball of a nuclear explosion. The song was partly inspired by Andrzej Wajda's movie *Ashes and Diamonds* (Polish: Popiół i Diament)

Session drummer Andy Newmark plays drums on this song, as Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason felt unable to perform its complex time signature changes. The song begins and ends in 9/8 time, while the majority of the song is in 4/4 (or "common time"), and it is punctuated with added measures of 7/8 and 3/8. Adding to the complexity, the main theme of the rhythm guitar has chords changing emphatically in dotted eighth notes, so three eighth-note beats are divided equally in two. This is not unlike what "Mother", from the previous Pink Floyd album, *The Wall*, does, and on that song, Mason relinquished the drumming duties, in that case to Jeff Porcaro.

## Reception

In a review for *The Final Cut*, Justin Gerber of *Consequence of Sound* described "Two Suns in the Sunset" as "the album's crowning achievement."

Toby Manning was less enthusiastic in his retrospective review, saying that this was the one song off *The Final Cut* where the musician Waters couldn't stay on the same level as the conceptualist Waters.

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, scream, sound effects
* David Gilmour – electric guitar

with:

* Andy Newmark – drums
* Andy Bown – Hammond organ
* Raphael Ravenscroft – saxophone
* Michael Kamen – piano
Childhood's End

"**Childhood's End**" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1972 album *Obscured by Clouds*. It was the last Pink Floyd song to be composed entirely by David Gilmour, as well as the last to feature lyrics written by him, until *A Momentary Lapse of Reason* in 1987. The song gets its title from the 1953 science-fiction novel of the same name by Arthur C. Clarke, though the theme of the song shares little with the story. The 2016 remixed version of "Childhood's End" which appears in *The Early Years 1965–1972* box set was released as the second single to promote the box set in October 2016.

## Live

"Childhood's End" was performed live during Pink Floyd's European tour in late 1972 and at a few shows in March 1973 on their next North American tour. The live versions usually featured a fairly long instrumental section not found in the studio version, with an exception being the last version played on 10 March 1973 at Kent State University, when they stuck to the studio arrangement. The live versions were also performed in F-sharp minor, a step higher than the studio version (E minor). Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets resurrected the song for their 2019 and 2022 tours.

## Personnel

* David Gilmour – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
* Roger Waters – bass guitar
* Richard Wright – Hammond organ, EMS VCS 3
* Nick Mason – drums
The Gunner's Dream

"**The Gunner's Dream**" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album *The Final Cut*. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, *Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd*. The song tells the story and thoughts of an airman gunner as he falls to his death during a raid, dreaming of a safe world in the future, without war. It is one of the four songs on the video version of the album *The Final Cut* Video EP. In his lyrics, Waters references real-life events including the then very recent Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings, and takes the refrain "some corner of a foreign field" from Rupert Brooke's poem *The Soldier*.

## Reception

In a retrospective review for *The Final Cut*, Rachel Mann of *The Quietus* described "The Gunner's Dream" as the album's centerpiece; the track "tenderly imagines the lost hopes and expectations of a bomber gunner shot down and falling to his death over Berlin." Mann believed Waters' voice is "beautifully matched to words whose understatement adds to the power."

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – vocals, bass, and tape effects
* David Gilmour – guitar
* Nick Mason – drums

with:

* The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted and arranged by Michael Kamen
* Raphael Ravenscroft – tenor sax
* Michael Kamen – piano and electric piano
* Andy Bown – Steinway piano

## Use of the song in media

The song was re-recorded with Durga McBroom on vocals for inclusion in the soundtrack for G.B. Hajim's animated sci-fi musical Strange Frame.
November 11 coup d'etat

Soldiers of the first regiment of the MSDF in the forecourt of the Council Palace, November 11, 1989

## Casualties and losses

### Combined

1 confirmed dead, ~ 5-10 injured

The **November 11 coup d'etat** was a takeover by Ariadna Slomozeyev and the Minerva Self-Defense Forces against Andrew Ryan's regime. After Andrew Ryan dismissed Ariadna from his position and ordered the detention of her and her family, the MSDF on Arianda's side attacked the Council Palace, resulting in the death of Andrew Ryan. The coup lasted only a few hours and ended successfully after the fighting. This coup later became the first step towards the democratization of Minerva.
Matilda Mother

"**Matilda Mother**" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, featured on their 1967 debut album, *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn*. Written by Syd Barrett, it is sung mostly by Richard Wright with Barrett joining in on choruses and singing the whole last verse. It was the first song recorded for the album.

## Lyrics and music

The lyrics quote fragments of fairy tales as read from a book to the singer by his mother ("read(ing) the scribbly black", referring to writing in a book as a child sees it), and in the chorus he implores her to "tell me more". "Matilda Mother" represents a common theme in Barrett's work: his nostalgia for childhood and awareness that it could not be regained.

The song begins with a bass and organ introduction in which Roger Waters repeatedly plays the B on the 16th fret of the G-string by varying the lower note from D to F# on the D string. Unlike many older beat and pop songs, the guitar rarely plays chords, and most unusually for Western music, Wright provides an organ solo in the F# Phrygian dominant scale with a natural sixth instead of its typical flatted counterpart. The song ends with a simple E mixolydian-based waltz with wordless vocal harmonies of Wright and Barrett.[*citation needed*]

Barrett originally wrote the song around verses from Hilaire Belloc's *Cautionary Tales*, in which a series of naughty children, including Matilda, receive their (often gruesome) comeuppance. He was forced to rewrite and re-record the track when Belloc's estate unexpectedly denied permission to use these lyrics.

## Later release

On the *Masters of Rock* compilation album, the song was misspelled "Mathilda Mother".

## Personnel[edit source]

* Syd Barrett – electric guitars, double-tracked lead vocals (choruses, bridge and final verse)
* Richard Wright – Hammond organ, Farfisa organ, double-tracked lead vocals (first two verses and choruses)
* Roger Waters – bass guitar
* Nick Mason – drums

## Alternative versions

A previously unreleased alternative version was released in a 40th anniversary reissue of *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn*; parts of this version's lyrics are also from Belloc's *Cautionary Tales*, i.e. *Jim* and *Henry King*, whereas the chorus is the same as in the standard version.

A different, stereo remix of the same alternative version was also released on the Barrett compilation, *An Introduction to Syd Barrett* in 2010. An extended version of this 2010 mix appeared in the Pink Floyd compilation box set The Early Years 1965–1972.
Vera

"**Vera**" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd which appears on their 1979 double album, *The Wall*.

## Title

The title is a reference to Vera Lynn, a British singer who came to prominence during World War II with her popular song "We'll Meet Again".

The song's intro features a collage of superimposed audio excerpts from the 1969 film *Battle of Britain*. Among the used clips are a piece of dialogue ("Where the hell are you, Simon?"), a BBC broadcast and battle sound effects.

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – vocals, acoustic guitar
* David Gilmour – acoustic guitar, bass guitar
* Richard Wright – Prophet-5 synthesiser

with:

* New York Symphony Orchestra

Personnel per Fitch and Mahon.

## Further reading

* Fitch, Vernon. *The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia* (3rd edition), 2005. ISBN 1-894959-24-8
Pow R. Toc H.

"**Pow R. Toc H.**" is an instrumental, with vocal effects, by the English rock band Pink Floyd on their 1967 album *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn*. In addition to the vocal effects, the piano is a prominent instrument in the piece.

## Background

Toc H. was the army signallers' code for "TH", representing Talbot House, a club where officers and enlisted men were equals, which later became an interdenominational Christian fellowship organization serving the community. (The emblem of Toc H. is an oil lamp, so a "power Toc H." would be an electric torch—probably with a dim bulb, as per the saying "as dim as a Toc H. lamp".)

According to Nick Mason, the original four members of Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Mason) were present at Abbey Road Studios and watched the Beatles record "Lovely Rita" from *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band*. Voice effects and noises similar to those used in "Lovely Rita" could be heard in "Pow R. Toc H.", recorded in the next studio during the same period.

Waters also uses the "scream" he later used in "Careful with That Axe, Eugene".

## Alternative and live versions

"Pow R. Toc H." was renamed "The Pink Jungle" in the "Journey" part of *The Man and The Journey*. Pink Floyd performed the song live from 1967 to 1969.

## Personnel

* Syd Barrett – acoustic guitar, electric guitars, vocal percussion
* Roger Waters – bass guitar, screams
* Richard Wright – Farfisa organ, piano, additional vocalisations
* Nick Mason – drums, percussion
Grantchester Meadows

"**Grantchester Meadows**" is the second track from the studio disc of the Pink Floyd album *Ummagumma*.

## Composition

The song was written and performed entirely by Roger Waters. The song features his lyrics accompanied by an acoustic guitar, while a tape loop of a skylark chirps in the background throughout the entire song. At approximately 4:13, the sound of a honking Bewick's swan is introduced, followed by the sound of it taking off. As the instrumental track fades out, an incessant buzzing bee which has been heard throughout the song, is chased after by an unidentified person (represented by the sound of footsteps) and finally swatted, cutting abruptly to the next track.

This song was one of several to be considered for, but ultimately excluded from, the band's "best of" album, *Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd*. A live version of the song was released as the first single to promote *The Early Years 1965–1972* box set in 2016.

## Lyrics

The lyrics describe a pastoral and dream-like scene at Grantchester Meadows in Cambridgeshire, close to where fellow band member David Gilmour lived at the time. This type of pastoral ballad was typical of Roger Waters' compositional approach in the late sixties and early seventies. It was a style that he was to continue on his first album outside of Pink Floyd – *Music from "The Body"* (in collaboration with Ron Geesin) and "If" from *Atom Heart Mother*. It is one of several Pink Floyd songs that praise the British countryside.

## Sound

The song is noted for its use of stereo effects and sound panning to create an illusion of space and depth.

## Live

"Grantchester Meadows" was incorporated into Pink Floyd's *The Man and the Journey* concert suite as "Daybreak". It was performed live during the 1970 US tour, often opening the show. Live renditions of the song included Gilmour on a second acoustic guitar and providing vocals during the chorus, as well as Richard Wright playing two piano solos—one after the second verse's chorus and one during the coda (these solos were later played on the Farfisa organ).

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – acoustic guitars, vocals, tape effects

Additional live personnel
* David Gilmour – second acoustic guitar, chorus vocals
* Richard Wright – piano, later Farfisa organ
Free Four

Cover of the 1972 Italy single

"**Free Four**" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, written by Roger Waters and released on the band's 1972 album *Obscured by Clouds*.

## Recording and lyrics

The song begins with a rock and roll count-in, but in this case Pink Floyd decided to play with words and record, "One, Two, Free Four!" The song deals with reflection of one's life, the "evils" of the record industry, and also makes a reference to Roger Waters' father who was killed in World War 2. The music begins in an upbeat manner, while the lyrics tell a very cynical and somewhat depressing story. "Free Four" was released as a single in the U.S. in 1972 but did not chart. The song charted at number 29 in the Netherlands and 35 in Wallonia (Belgium).

*Cashbox* reviewed the single saying "Would you believe a happy song about death?" *Record World* said that it "is not only musically excellent but also accessible and commercial enough to hit as a single."

## Track listing

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## Personnel

* David Gilmour – acoustic and electric guitars, handclapping
* Nick Mason – drums, tambourine, handclapping
* Roger Waters – double-tracked lead vocals, backing vocals, bass
* Richard Wright – EMS VCS 3
The Final Cut (Song)

"**The Final Cut**" is the title track from Pink Floyd's 1983 album *The Final Cut*.

## Background

This song tells of a man's isolation, depression, sexual repression and rejection. At the end of the song he attempts suicide but "never had the nerve to make the final cut". Additionally, the song may be told from its main character of Pink.

"The Final Cut" is one of four songs (along with "The Hero's Return", "One of the Few", and "Your Possible Pasts") used in *The Final Cut* that had been previously rejected from *The Wall*. This song is in the video version of the album *The Final Cut Video EP*. The song made an appearance as the B-side of the "Selections from the Final Cut" radio promo single (with "Your Possible Pasts" on the A-side.) It also appears in the film *Strange Frame*.

## Personnel

* Roger Waters – vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, tape effects
* David Gilmour – guitar, backing vocals
* Nick Mason – drums, tambourine

with:

* Michael Kamen – piano, harmonium, orchestrations

## Cultural references

* The album *The Dark Side of the Moog VI* (1997) by Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook is subtitled "The Final DAT".
The Show Must Go On

"**The Show Must Go On**" (working titles "**Who's Sorry Now**", "**(It's) Never Too Late**") is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, from their 1979 album *The Wall*. It was written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour.

## Recording and lyrics

Roger Waters wanted to create a "Beach Boys" type sound for the backing vocals, and got Bruce Johnston to come and help create it, but this was only after the Beach Boys themselves had agreed to do so, only to cancel at the last possible moment (the morning of the session, 2 October 1979). The song's chord patterns closely resemble those found in "Mother", "In the Flesh", and "Waiting for the Worms".

The track does not appear in the 1982 film version of *The Wall* nor in Waters' post-Pink Floyd 1990 concert *The Wall – Live in Berlin*. It also has an extra verse that was cut from the studio album, but is nevertheless included in the lyrics printed on its sleeve.

 *Do I have to stand up*

 *Wild eyed in the spotlight*

 *What a nightmare*

 *Why don't I turn and run*

After this, the line "There must be some mistake..." starts.

The full song was performed live in concert, and as such appears on *Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81*. It was also included on Waters' 2010-2013 solo Wall tour, and is included in the concert film and album of that tour.

It's the only song from the album which Waters does not perform any kind of instrument and vocal, although his voice is audible on unofficially released recordings of the demo. He is heard singing a verse that was cut from the final version and has never been played live, located right before David Gilmour's bridge:

 *Am I really unsure,*

 *Wild eyed in the spotlight?*

 *Fuck me, what a nightmare*

 *Who's there?*

 *Have they all gone?*

 *It's okay, now you're in luck,*

 *The worms have fled the rising sun.*

 *Their evil power is on the wane.*

 *Forget the past and start again.*

 *There must be some mistake...*

## Plot

As with the other songs on *The Wall*, "The Show Must Go On" tells a segment of the story of Pink, the story's protagonist. This song leads into "In the Flesh", where the show is performed by Pink as he begins to mentally unravel and hallucinate that he is a fascist dictator.

## Personnel

Music & lyrics by Roger Waters

* David Gilmour – vocals, guitars, bass guitar, roto toms
* Nick Mason – drums
* Richard Wright – Prophet-5

with:

* Bob Ezrin – Prophet-5, piano
* Bruce Johnston – backing vocals
* Joe Chemay – backing vocals
* Stan Farber – backing vocals
* Jim Haas – backing vocals
* John Joyce – backing vocals
* Toni Tennille – backing vocals

Personnel per Fitch and Mahon.
Wot's... Uh the Deal?

"**Wot's... Uh the Deal?**" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1972 album, *Obscured by Clouds*. The song features multi-tracked vocals by David Gilmour, and lyrics by Roger Waters that describe taking advantage of certain opportunities life gives and how they affect a person later on. The lyric "Flash the readies, Wot's...Uh the Deal" is reported to be a phrase by roadie Chris Adamson.

## Live performances

David Gilmour performed it at several shows on his 2006 *On an Island* tour and it appears on the live DVD and Blu-ray *Remember That Night* (2007) as well as the vinyl version of his live album *Live in Gdańsk*. It was also made available to download for people who bought the deluxe edition or iTunes edition.

## Personnel

### Original

* David Gilmour – acoustic guitars, lap steel guitar, lead and backing vocals
* Richard Wright – piano, Hammond organ
* Roger Waters – bass guitar
* Nick Mason – drums

### David Gilmour 2006 live personnel

* David Gilmour – acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, lead vocals
* Richard Wright – piano
* Jon Carin – organ, backing vocals
* Phil Manzanera – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
* Guy Pratt – bass guitar, backing vocals
* Steve DiStanislao – drums
Green Is the Colour

"**Green Is the Colour**" is a track on Pink Floyd's 1969 *More*. It was composed and written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour. A tin whistle is heard in the song, played by drummer Nick Mason's then-wife Lindy. A live version of the song was released as the third single to promote *The Early Years 1965–1972* box set in October 2016.

## Live

Live arrangements of the song were performed as a full electric band piece and at a slower tempo. Richard Wright played organ sound throughout, which segued into the piece that always immediately followed it, "Careful with That Axe, Eugene". David Gilmour also sang a scat vocal over his guitar solo during the outro. In a live intro to the song from 1970, Roger Waters states that the song is "about being on Ibiza" the setting of the film, *More*.

In *The Man and The Journey* suite, the song was retitled "The Beginning" in "The Journey" half of the show. It was played as a medley with "Beset by the Creatures of the Deep", which was a retitling of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene".

The song was a regular part of the band's shows from early 1969 through 1970, then less common in 1971. It was played for the last time during their short tour of Japan and Australia in August 1971. The song was later played by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets.

## Personnel

**Studio recording**

* David Gilmour – lead vocals, acoustic guitars
* Richard Wright – piano, Farfisa organ
* Roger Waters – bass guitar

with:

* Lindy Mason – tin whistle

**Live performances**

* David Gilmour - electric guitar, lead vocals
* Richard Wright - Farfisa organ
* Roger Waters - bass guitar
* Nick Mason - drums

**Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets**

* Nick Mason - drums
* Gary Kemp - electric guitar, lead vocals
* Lee Harris - acoustic guitar
* Guy Pratt - bass guitar, backing vocals
* Dom Beken - piano, backing vocals
See-Saw

"**See-Saw**" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd and the sixth track on their second studio album *A Saucerful of Secrets*.

## Composition

It is the third Pink Floyd song written solely by Richard Wright, the second on the album as such, and features Wright on lead vocals and piano, Farfisa organ, xylophone and Mellotron. On the recording sheet, the song is listed as "The Most Boring Song I've Ever Heard Bar Two". It was recorded on the 25 and 26 January 1968 at EMI Studios. David Gilmour uses a wah-wah pedal on his electric guitar and possibly contributes backing vocals.

## Lyrics

It's theorized that the song tells of a strangely troubled brother-sister relationship; the loss of a child, the sister killing the brother, from the lyrics of "Sits on a stick in the river, sister's throwing stones, hoping for a hit, he doesn't know, so then, she goes up, while he goes down;" Or simply the loss of childhood, similar to the previous song on the album "Remember a Day," which was also written and sung by Wright.

## Reception

In a review for *A Saucerful of Secrets*, Jim Miller of *Rolling Stone* described "See-Saw" as "a ballad scored vocally in a style incongruously reminiscent of Ronny and the Daytonas."

## Personnel

* Richard Wright – lead vocals, Farfisa organ, piano, Mellotron, xylophone
* David Gilmour – acoustic guitar, wah-wah electric guitar and backing vocals
* Roger Waters – bass guitar
* Nick Mason – drums, triangle, gong, tambourine, shaker
* Norman Smith – backing vocals
The Nile Song

Single by Pink Floyd

"**The Nile Song**", written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour, is the second song from Pink Floyd's 1969 album *More*, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released as a single in 1969 (only in France, Japan and New Zealand), and included on the 1971 compilation album *Relics*. While Pink Floyd never played the song in concert, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets performed it in 2018.

While the rest of the *More* album was issued in true stereo, "The Nile Song" was mixed in mono and processed into Duophonic stereo for release.

## Composition

Andy Kellman of AllMusic feels that "The Nile Song" is "one of the heaviest songs the band ever recorded". The chord progression is a series of modulations, beginning at A and then rising a whole step with each repeat, cycling through six different keys, returning to the starting point of A and continuing this pattern as the song fades out. The song's style has been described as heavy metal, acid rock and hard rock.

## Personnel

* David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar
* Roger Waters – bass
* Nick Mason – drums

## Covers

"The Nile Song" was covered by:

* The Human Instinct, on their 1971 album *Pins In It*.
* The Necros, on their 1986 album *Tangled Up*.
* Red Temple Spirits, on their 1988 album *Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon*.
* The Melvins, live at UCLA in 1993.
* Panthers, on their 2004 album *Things Are Strange*.
* The Morlocks, on their 1991 album *Wake Me When I'm Dead*.
* Voivod, on their 1993 album *The Outer Limits*.
* Dreadnaught, on their 2001 EP *One Piece Missing*.
* Gov't Mule, on their 2018 tour Dark Side of the Mule
Summer '68

"**Summer '68**" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd on their 1970 album *Atom Heart Mother*.

## Recording

Written and sung by Richard Wright, "Summer '68" was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in July 1970. Its lyrics describe Wright's meeting with a groupie in 1968.

On 4 December 1968, an incomplete version of this song, titled "One Night Stand", was started at Abbey Road Studios. The band kept working on it until 16 December, and it was eventually scrapped by the band on 16 January 1969 after a session at Abbey Road.

## Reception

In a retrospective review for the *Atom Heart Mother* album, Irving Tan of *Sputnik Music* gave "Summer '68" a positive review, describing it as "the catchiest and most-accessible track on the album." Tan really enjoyed Wright's vocals, the "bombastic trumpet solo breaks", and believed the track had "a groovy chorus".

In another retrospective review for the *Atom Heart Mother* album, IGN described "Summer '68" as "a catchy, fast and happy pop tune written and sung by Richard Wright" that's "one of the few songs Wright has ever done for Pink Floyd and it's actually pretty fine."

## Personnel

* Richard Wright – lead vocals, piano, Hammond organ
* David Gilmour – acoustic guitar, classical guitar, backing vocals
* Roger Waters – bass guitar
* Nick Mason – drums, percussion

with:

* Abbey Road Session Pops Orchestra – brass