That's what I think. I've spent time in the studio and you spend what seems like ages trying to get things *just right - and when something is *that good* happens, it can be stunning.
It just does it for me too..... Forever. It's a cliche...I know... But she absolutely nailed it. A classic in itself...That portion. Steve... yes, they were gobsmacked. And I do not wonder why.
@@goldensh0t439 -when you vibeing/resonating to a song tee totally, you are literally in a sense, becoming/becoming One with the music, getting to the point of being one with the same vibrations. Very Zen experience, very much releases the good body chemistry.
I hope Clare never has any misgivings about her role in Great Gig. Vocally, musically, artistically and culturally it is unique, excellent and immortal.
You know that's really true. Just go around watching different covers of this and even other live Floyd performances with different singers. Many are great, and don't get me wrong, I'm not one of these originalist loyalists in whose world bands should never improvise away from the integrity of the original popular recording. But that vocal track is quite perfect. God bless Clare Tory.
She didn't though. She didn't know she was even on the album until she saw it in a record store and the credit was on the jacket. (edit) She got credit for vocals. Fought later for writing credit. (I saw another comment.)
When I 1st heard “Gig”, I was convinced the singer was black. No racism... it’s just that the stunning vocals just gave me a vision of a black girl singing. I soon learned that it was Claire. I don’t assume as much any more. And I’m still captivated decades later.
I first heard Clare Torry in the Great Gig behind the Iron Curtain. The album was a smuggled in one. Her soaring vocals were absolutely mind blowing. I never heard anything like this then and honestly even now, after living 30 years in the US. The Great Gig is the tale of two worlds for me in every possible sense.
This woman has had such an impact on my whole life. I can’t listen to her voice without thinking of my dad. I love what the whole band and her and everyone involved have created.
check out Kimbra, her songs Withdraw, live from KEXP is my fave version, Plain Gold Ring, Rockwiz, my fave version, Two Way Street, Sing Sing Studios, and she is fantastic in a Simlish version remake of Good Intent.
The best thing: Claire was mentioned on the cover as singer. 15 years ago, after a claim was confirmed in an out-of-court settlement, Richard Wright and Clare Torry have been considered joint composers of this piece. And this is only fair.
I'm stunned. I always thought this was a black singer somehow. How delightful Clare Torry is in person and how interesting to hear that all this was done in one take almost without direction - yet this has got to be one of thee great vocal performances. It's like the trumpet on Strawberry Fields, that exceptionally beautiful and wonderful. Wow, wow, wow.
@3:04...she says she finished singing, said thank you and left, and no one said a thing, whether they liked it, was awful or anything. it's because, still to this day, dam near 2021, YOUR singing in this song leaves people speechless, they dont know how to respond to people who are able to put so much god dam feeling into something so fast, and so seemingly effortlessly.
I think the boys were too stunned to make a comment, I was when I first listened to it and also left speechless and in tears. Clare you absolutely nailed it, and it could never be bettered!
I remember hearing this album for the very first time at age 8 in 1976 (straight through in its entirety the very first listen!) when my baby sitter played it for me. I remember the exact moments of hearing “don’t give me that do-goodie good bullshit” in Money, “The lunatic is on the graaahs” in Brain Damage, and of course the ear shattering wails of Clare in Great Gig, and said to myself “this is the best thing I’ve ever heard”.
Excerpt from a Guitar Legends magazine interview years ago (I still have the mag): Likewise, when Waters suggested that a bit of singing might be the finishing touch for "The Great Gig in the Sky," Parsons recommended Clare Torry, a singer that none of the group had heard of before. "We'd been thinking Madeleine Bell or Doris Troy, " Gilmour says, referring to two popular session vocalists. "We couldn't believe when this housewifely white woman walked in. But when she opened her mouth, well... She wasn't too quick at finessing what we wanted, but out came that orgasmic sound we all know and love." I think that about sums it up. Thank you Ms. Torry for a timeless piece of musical performance
I thought "Oh Effin lovely" Ha! Brilliant! Clare Torry will go down in music history as the originator of one of the most inspiring vocal pieces ever created! She may not have known what to do prior but she figured it out and totally nailed it! For me Great Gig is THE best piece of music on an album filled with exceptional pieces of music. Richard Wright's piano work is magnificent and Clare's vocals were absolutely perfect for this.
I think they were so stunned after her take (final and only take after a quick 'worded' attempt), that they were speechless. After that performance, I would have been too. Needed to process what had just happened. Well...we know they did and the rest is literally history. Legendary history. Clare's 'instrument' approach to that masterpiece was brilliant. Made it a masterpiece. Never will be done again. THAT moment in time where it was meant to be.
I heard Clare tell a slightly different version of the story. They asked her to do another take. She started to do the second take but stopped, and told the band that she felt they had their take. Perhaps she felt she couldn't top what she had just laid down. As she said, the first take is usually the best.
@@scottbc31h22 Yes, I did sort of give the truncated version, but the same ending either way. David had said kindly that he thought she could build on that, after that masterful wordless performance. But she said she felt she gave them all she could and that was basically what they needed IHO. Something along those lines. And she was only 24 years old. Wise musically beyond her years. They were young too really. So it all worked out. And then she just left, thinking no way they will use it due to the David comment, their collective silence, and just felt it was screechy, etc. Haha. Uhhh. NO!! Lol. It was magnificent. We know that now. And so does she and all concerned. Onward.....
without a doubt, nobody else could have done that piece of music justice, than Clare. she was born to sing that piece. not many people get to live their destiny. not to say anything else she has done wasn't great, but people will hear this piece 500 years from now.
The greatest song arrangement I've ever heard without words really and truly a masterpiece ❤ one of my all time favorites by Pink Floyd and Clare Torry ❤❤❤
I hear you. It's that way for me when I hear certain Floyd songs that take me back, hard to get through some of them because they are that powerful. But I wouldn't trade a single memory for anything. Keep smiling and remember all the good times you had with Floyd music playing,👍
It makes perfect sense that neither the four lads nor Clare had any clue as to how to represent.. life, death the universe and everything, in a non lyrical vocal performance. She just stepped out into Space. And they could only watch helplessly from the control room. That's what it actually sounds like to me.
That day was lighting in a bottle. There won't ever be something like that again in the history of music. The planets aligned and it came out so... perfectly
She is firmly cemented as an anchor in one of the greatest masterpieces in rock and roll for all eternity. What an honor. And to imagine that she thought it was going to be nothing to remember.....Wow!
Englishwomen can just be as understated as Englishmen as Clare shows. An extremely talented session singer walks into Abbey Road studios for a session with a highly talented rock band, one of the biggest and most successful of all time as they turned out to be. Clare picked up although probably not consciously on the brilliant music arrangement and because of her professionalism and expertise she naturally became the vocal sound of the piece. Claire deservingly got a share of the copyright years later and without realising it that Sunday evening in January 1973 laid down one of the finest vocals of all time in rock music😎👌
There’s a parallel with Gimme Shelter where the backing vocals were largely spontaneous and the backing vocalist didn’t know exactly what they were meant to sing.
I was waiting for someone else to point this out. Equally inspiring stories that resulted in some of the most culturally important music ever to be made.
This song and Merry Claytons vocals on Gimme Shelter are probably two of the greatest off the cuff vocal performances ever in rock and roll. Merry was called in late at night by the Stones ,pregnant ,hair in curlers and in her pajamas. Love these rock and roll women
I've always thought she was singing as a lead guitarist or a sax player would play and as a lifelong lead guitarist I sing my parts in my head as I play, if I had one tip to make ears stop and listen its exactly that, sing in your mind as you play and people will notice what you do, so so many miss this,, 40 odd years on and this track still makes time stand still,, the world needs music more than ever right now, Peace.
I think the lady is perplexed...like the rest of us...as to how something this incredible could have been belted out at the very first attempt. Without preparation. The Lord be praised. And no, I am not religious. When I am speechless, that is what I say.
For me, there are FEW songs that come anywhere close to the perfection of this song. I often wonder if Mrs. Torry has ANY idea of the true greatness of this piece of art or the importance of this song to so MANY people on the planet. She hasn't received any where close to the recognition she deserves for this song and to date I haven't heard a cover of this song that truly compares to her performance.
I remember hearing Dark Side in the bedroom of a friend next door. Teenagers who lived in our bedrooms. It was a brand new album he was turning me onto. We’d had a smoke and he put it on. I’ll never forget that moment. This is without a doubt the greatest album of all time.
I have heard dozens of copies and live to and not one comes even close to you Miss Torry ! I just close my eye and breath in your voice , thank you so much for taking that Gig !
What must it be like to be Clare, turn up for who knows what, do a couple of takes and leave, Next she becomes cemented in history with one of the most incredible albums ever made, of course, well deserved with her incredible voice.
The fact that she went in there, no one had a clue about what they wanted or what to do, and after a few minor cues from Gilmore, she called it, "record this because the first take is usually the best". She proceeded to go in and NAIL IT on the first take. What a woman, what a voice. ❤
I was 16..... bumped into my record store and saw the cover, being a junior designer, I looked at it and bought the record. Put the record on and I went into the most memorable experience in my life... tears when I heard Clare.....
Early 70's, just setting out playing the pubs on the weekend, band members ranting about D/S o/t/M,collect my pay on Friday bought the album great gig in the sky hits me and I slip into a substance un aided stupor over this female voice the stuff going on in my head unprintable. Pure perfection
Still brings tears to my eyes to this day! I got to see them only once in concert; I think it was about ... 1975 or 76 (?) when they performed at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City! The Dark Side of The Moon tour (and album... still my favorite!) And Clare's voice was phenomenal!
To think of Dark Side without Great Gig makes me a bit emotional...I've enjoyed the album since a friend's big brother played it for us to show us how Stereo sound worked... Eight grade 1973. It changed my life and I love it even more today...:) Thanks for the upload.
What an enchanting lady and what a beautiful voice. That song will always and forever be one of the most beautiful songs ever created. A true masterpiece as is the entirety of dark side of the moon.
this piece is not only unique in rock history, but in all music history! and i swear my entire life on that! divine ethereal lamenting mystic sexy ... and more at the same time! things like this happen only once in anyone's lifetime, if ever, including the people who made it happen! about a decade or so later she tried it again with the band in a live concert and although she did well enough, she couldn't repeat the same thing twice ... which doesn't matter of course, we still have the original ... so glad DSOTM made it to a platinum master! this piece is to be recorded for future generations of humanity FOREVER!
I had no idea that she invented the solo by herself with a very little direction input. What a moment in musical history. The angels must have been with her that day! And so challenging but beautiful and even heavenly in its delivery! Well done Clare!!!
One of, if not the most emotionally captivating vocal performances ever recorded. The beauty of it is the fact that it has no words, it’s just her conveying the deepest emotions of the human soul through truly remarkable vocal styling. I find it hard to listen to without getting teary eyed, even after so many years. Timeless, perfection xx
She seems like a genuinely nice and humble person. It was a moment in time, where her amazing talent and odd Pink Floyd requests resulted in her creation of a unique masterpiece for the ages.
They probably didn't say anything because they were speechless! It has to be the greatest lyricless vocal performance of all time. It is perfect!
That's what I think. I've spent time in the studio and you spend what seems like ages trying to get things *just right - and when something is *that good* happens, it can be stunning.
It just does it for me too..... Forever.
It's a cliche...I know... But she absolutely nailed it.
A classic in itself...That portion.
Steve... yes, they were gobsmacked.
And I do not wonder why.
Another possibility is that they were stoned out of their tree.
She said it herself, the first take is the usually the best. But goddamn, I dont think she meant THAT good. But it was.
I can't imagine what the impact must have been of actually hearing that with one's own ears. Being in the studio for that take? That is a moment.
One of the most wonderful pieces of music ever. It's divine.
Absolutely perfect
you have no idea how right you are.
I get Chills everytime I listen to it
@@goldensh0t439 -when you vibeing/resonating to a song tee totally, you are literally in a sense, becoming/becoming One with the music, getting to the point of being one with the same vibrations. Very Zen experience, very much releases the good body chemistry.
I wonder if she knows how many men she has made weep openly.
I tear up every time I hear it. It is just that powerful!
I'm not crying *sniff*.... YOU ARE!!!!!
Saw Brit Floyd cover GGITS in 2015. Tears poured out of my eyes!
@@beich70 I'm glad I'm not the only one
Indeed. Every time.
I hope Clare never has any misgivings about her role in Great Gig. Vocally, musically, artistically and culturally it is unique, excellent and immortal.
it is NOT DSOTM without her!
she has delievered one of music's most iconic vocal lines, she should be proud
The most amazing female performance ever.
It couldn't have been anyone else, Clare. It's a perfect moment in time.
Actually it wasn’t Time. It was Great Gig In The Sky
(joking)
TRUE THAT!
Absolutely!!!!!!!!!
Exactly what I said when she said that
You know that's really true. Just go around watching different covers of this and even other live Floyd performances with different singers. Many are great, and don't get me wrong, I'm not one of these originalist loyalists in whose world bands should never improvise away from the integrity of the original popular recording. But that vocal track is quite perfect. God bless Clare Tory.
No wonder she fought so hard for a credit.
That vocal was 100% completely her composition! 👍
She didn't though. She didn't know she was even on the album until she saw it in a record store and the credit was on the jacket.
(edit) She got credit for vocals. Fought later for writing credit. (I saw another comment.)
She actually ended up suing them for about a million dollars. So she eventually got paid.
"I'm not afraid of dying, it can happen anytime" and she belts out grief.
Great song.
Who doesn't wail out for a loved one lost?
The only song that I ever heard that explained what I felt when my Mom died when I was 9.
When I 1st heard “Gig”, I was convinced the singer was black.
No racism... it’s just that the stunning vocals just gave me a vision of a black girl singing.
I soon learned that it was Claire.
I don’t assume as much any more.
And I’m still captivated decades later.
I did too for like 25 years I thought that it was like PP. Arnold or someone...of color that is.
@@bonnerscott5374 Very much. Katie Kissoom is another.
@@rwags6848 yes that was another I was thinking of, I believe they both toured with roger for a long time ...
Half the people thought she was a black woman.
I first heard Clare Torry in the Great Gig behind the Iron Curtain.
The album was a smuggled in one.
Her soaring vocals were absolutely mind blowing.
I never heard anything like this then and honestly even now, after living 30 years in the US.
The Great Gig is the tale of two worlds for me in every possible sense.
And that is how pieces of genius are created.
Clares' version Is the only one that I care for. Her voice has been burned Into my mind for years.
All the planets aligned, and history was made. Beautiful job Clare.
The Greatest Female vocal ever. Of that there is no doubt! Thank You Clare.
That's a bold statement right there.
@@ninjavigilante5311 true
True, with Merry Clayton on "Gimmie Shelter" as a close second...with the most soul-tearing vocal break ever.
I've never listened to a better version of The Great Gig in the Sky than Claire Torry's ... in my entire life
Well, there is none.
@OysterSoupKitchen What I was trying to say, there is no better version.
I find Jess and Hollys from Lucius version as good as Claire's..
Sam Brown
Non si può fare meglio della perfezione
This woman has had such an impact on my whole life. I can’t listen to her voice without thinking of my dad. I love what the whole band and her and everyone involved have created.
check out Kimbra, her songs Withdraw, live from KEXP is my fave version, Plain Gold Ring, Rockwiz, my fave version, Two Way Street, Sing Sing Studios, and she is fantastic in a Simlish version remake of Good Intent.
This is hands down my favorite Pink Floyd piece EVER. This song hits in all sorts of ways. God bless this woman.
Clare, I hope you're reading this. You are a legend! I will love you, your voice, your performance forever.
Perfect song perfect voice.
God!
A miracle.
Thanks Clare
🤗
The best thing: Claire was mentioned on the cover as singer. 15 years ago, after a claim was confirmed in an out-of-court settlement, Richard Wright and Clare Torry have been considered joint composers of this piece. And this is only fair.
But she was paid a "session fee" at the time. If Dark Side was a flop, would she have come back decades later for more??
@@woodfireguitar But it wasn't and she did and they did nothing.
She made the vocal composition and the song partly because of her became a huge succes. For this she needs to have credits and get her fair share.
This track is one of the best things in the history of Western Civilization. Thank you, Clare Torry.
God bless this woman for the art she left the world with.
Perhaps the most creative song in rock history. Haunting, ethereal, beautiful
👍
Perhaps the MOST indispensable song on the greatest album of all time.
"Best feet forward"... what an understatement.
One of the most breathtaking vocal performances ever recorded.
Nothing ever will sound like this again, absolutely amazing woman
I'm stunned. I always thought this was a black singer somehow. How delightful Clare Torry is in person and how interesting to hear that all this was done in one take almost without direction - yet this has got to be one of thee great vocal performances. It's like the trumpet on Strawberry Fields, that exceptionally beautiful and wonderful. Wow, wow, wow.
@Thomas Bell Penny Lane, apols
Funnily, I always thought the same, that the vocalist was black. I don’t know what made me think that but that’s what I imagined.
@@yusha27
Probably because she has the "soul" in her voice
I also thought this was a black singer which, IMO, is a huge compliment.
I thought she was black too, you're not alone
Vous êtes sans aucun doute la merveilleuse interprête de ce maginifique morceau. Tant de fois copié, jamais égalé. Merci Madame
@3:04...she says she finished singing, said thank you and left, and no one said a thing, whether they liked it, was awful or anything.
it's because, still to this day, dam near 2021, YOUR singing in this song leaves people speechless, they dont know how to respond to people who are able to put so much god dam feeling into something so fast, and so seemingly effortlessly.
I think the boys were too stunned to make a comment, I was when I first listened to it and also left speechless and in tears. Clare you absolutely nailed it, and it could never be bettered!
I remember hearing this album for the very first time at age 8 in 1976 (straight through in its entirety the very first listen!) when my baby sitter played it for me. I remember the exact moments of hearing “don’t give me that do-goodie good bullshit” in Money, “The lunatic is on the graaahs” in Brain Damage, and of course the ear shattering wails of Clare in Great Gig, and said to myself “this is the best thing I’ve ever heard”.
Same here 76 on the way to the celebration on Lexington Concord bridge on July 4th! Didn't realize she was a Brit! What a corundum!
Nothing like it in rock music. Stunning.
Excerpt from a Guitar Legends magazine interview years ago (I still have the mag): Likewise, when Waters suggested that a bit of singing might be the finishing touch for "The Great Gig in the Sky," Parsons recommended Clare Torry, a singer that none of the group had heard of before. "We'd been thinking Madeleine Bell or Doris Troy, " Gilmour says, referring to two popular session vocalists. "We couldn't believe when this housewifely white woman walked in. But when she opened her mouth, well... She wasn't too quick at finessing what we wanted, but out came that orgasmic sound we all know and love." I think that about sums it up. Thank you Ms. Torry for a timeless piece of musical performance
I thought "Oh Effin lovely" Ha! Brilliant!
Clare Torry will go down in music history as the originator of one of the most inspiring vocal pieces ever created! She may not have known what to do prior but she figured it out and totally nailed it! For me Great Gig is THE best piece of music on an album filled with exceptional pieces of music. Richard Wright's piano work is magnificent and Clare's vocals were absolutely perfect for this.
I think they were so stunned after her take (final and only take after a quick 'worded' attempt), that they were speechless. After that performance, I would have been too. Needed to process what had just happened. Well...we know they did and the rest is literally history. Legendary history. Clare's 'instrument' approach to that masterpiece was brilliant. Made it a masterpiece. Never will be done again. THAT moment in time where it was meant to be.
I heard Clare tell a slightly different version of the story.
They asked her to do another take. She started to do the second take but stopped, and told the band that she felt they had their take.
Perhaps she felt she couldn't top what she had just laid down. As she said, the first take is usually the best.
To me it just sounds like they were all socially awkward nerds.. not knocking it
@@scottbc31h22 Yes, I did sort of give the truncated version, but the same ending either way. David had said kindly that he thought she could build on that, after that masterful wordless performance. But she said she felt she gave them all she could and that was basically what they needed IHO. Something along those lines. And she was only 24 years old. Wise musically beyond her years. They were young too really. So it all worked out. And then she just left, thinking no way they will use it due to the David comment, their collective silence, and just felt it was screechy, etc. Haha. Uhhh. NO!! Lol. It was magnificent. We know that now. And so does she and all concerned. Onward.....
She sure nailed it. One of my favorites.
without a doubt, nobody else could have done that piece of music justice, than Clare. she was born to sing that piece. not many people get to live their destiny. not to say anything else she has done wasn't great, but people will hear this piece 500 years from now.
The Greatest Gig in a Studio. Once in a lifetime. And she is soooo right : The first take is always the best one.
This is the best performance, the best voice of the state of Death and its inevitability! The best vocalist! Bravo!
The greatest song arrangement I've ever heard without words really and truly a masterpiece ❤ one of my all time favorites by Pink Floyd and Clare Torry ❤❤❤
She brought me to tears when in my 20s. I'm 70 now and still break down when I hear her. And now I have many more departed loved ones to cry for.
I hear you. It's that way for me when I hear certain Floyd songs that take me back, hard to get through some of them because they are that powerful. But I wouldn't trade a single memory for anything. Keep smiling and remember all the good times you had with Floyd music playing,👍
@@Gledge9 I wish I could remember. But I was stoned most of the time and they're just a blur now.
Clare, this is one the best pieces of our century, and you nailed it!
TYVM Clare, such memories over the years
You would never look at her and think she sang that. Even hearing her speak I wouldn’t think she did
I do not cry when I hear you Sing this, Clare. Something just always seems to get in my eyes...
Alan Barker
Oklahoma City
It makes perfect sense that neither the four lads nor Clare had any clue as to how to represent.. life, death the universe and everything, in a non lyrical vocal performance.
She just stepped out into Space. And they could only watch helplessly from the control room. That's what it actually sounds like to me.
That day was lighting in a bottle. There won't ever be something like that again in the history of music.
The planets aligned and it came out so... perfectly
Clare Tory you are a vocalist master and magician! Thank you for the most poignant vocals EVER!
I am nearly 70. Dark side of the moon is the only album I can remember listing for the first time, remember where I was , the people I was with...
She is firmly cemented as an anchor in one of the greatest masterpieces in rock and roll for all eternity. What an honor. And to imagine that she thought it was going to be nothing to remember.....Wow!
Every single time that i listen to great gig in the sky i broke down in tears
Englishwomen can just be as understated as Englishmen as Clare shows.
An extremely talented session singer walks into Abbey Road studios for a session with a highly talented rock band, one of the biggest and most successful of all time as they turned out to be.
Clare picked up although probably not consciously on the brilliant music arrangement and because of her professionalism and expertise she naturally became the vocal sound of the piece.
Claire deservingly got a share of the copyright years later and without realising it that Sunday evening in January 1973 laid down one of the finest vocals of all time in rock music😎👌
Great Gig In the Sky: When happenstance, improvisation, and talent become an otherworldly sound and a gift to all of us.
Much clearer version of the interview. Thank you!
There’s a parallel with Gimme Shelter where the backing vocals were largely spontaneous and the backing vocalist didn’t know exactly what they were meant to sing.
I was waiting for someone else to point this out. Equally inspiring stories that resulted in some of the most culturally important music ever to be made.
Merry Clayton had been given a lyric sheet and sang what was written. Don't get me wrong, she frickin’ killed it, but had clear marching orders.
@@keithjohnston5936 she got a phone call at 02:00 to come to the studio. Instructions or not, that’s pretty impressive.
Concur. That's a great comparison. Both Claire's and Mary Clayton's performances are as emotional, raw, and powerful as it gets.
I finally put a face to that amazing voice I have been listening to since the early 70s. For decades I thought she was Black.
I wonder, when this interview took place.
She's so down to earth, so clear and honest! I admire her and her gig in the sky - speechless!
Timeless perfection Clare. Truly Masterful! Thank you for sharing your great talent 💝💖💝
Fantastic singer, fantastic voice, fantastic interpretation, fantastic notes, fantastic feelings, fantastic soul, fantastic love...
Hey madame, you are fantastic....for ever.
This song and Merry Claytons vocals on Gimme Shelter are probably two of the greatest off the cuff vocal performances ever in rock and roll. Merry was called in late at night by the Stones ,pregnant ,hair in curlers and in her pajamas. Love these rock and roll women
I've always thought she was singing as a lead guitarist or a sax player would play and as a lifelong lead guitarist I sing my parts in my head as I play, if I had one tip to make ears stop and listen its exactly that, sing in your mind as you play and people will notice what you do, so so many miss this,, 40 odd years on and this track still makes time stand still,, the world needs music more than ever right now, Peace.
I think the lady is perplexed...like the rest of us...as to how something this incredible could have been belted out at the very first attempt. Without preparation. The Lord be praised. And no, I am not religious. When I am speechless, that is what I say.
For me, there are FEW songs that come anywhere close to the perfection of this song. I often wonder if Mrs. Torry has ANY idea of the true greatness of this piece of art or the importance of this song to so MANY people on the planet. She hasn't received any where close to the recognition she deserves for this song and to date I haven't heard a cover of this song that truly compares to her performance.
I remember hearing Dark Side in the bedroom of a friend next door. Teenagers who lived in our bedrooms. It was a brand new album he was turning me onto. We’d had a smoke and he put it on. I’ll never forget that moment.
This is without a doubt the greatest album of all time.
I have heard dozens of copies and live to and not one comes even close to you Miss Torry ! I just close my eye and breath in your voice , thank you so much for taking that Gig !
What must it be like to be Clare, turn up for who knows what, do a couple of takes and leave, Next she becomes cemented in history with one of the most incredible albums ever made, of course, well deserved with her incredible voice.
Amazing. Thanks. Absolutely magnificent vocal part.
The fact that she went in there, no one had a clue about what they wanted or what to do, and after a few minor cues from Gilmore, she called it, "record this because the first take is usually the best". She proceeded to go in and NAIL IT on the first take. What a woman, what a voice. ❤
Oh my,after all these years I finally see and hear this wonderful woman and voice, bravo ma'am, bravo.... spectacular work, peace.
What a precious video for musicians! Thx so much for posting this.
It is, quite simply, one of the finest vocal performances ever recorded. Thank you, Clare.
One of the finest vocal performances ever caught on tape. Still moves me to tears even now. Thank you so much for one of my favourite pieces ever.
Absolutely fantastic to hear her point of view! What an unknown legend.
Clare Torry, became a rock legend that day and had no idea at the time.
I was 16..... bumped into my record store and saw the cover, being a junior designer, I looked at it and bought the record. Put the record on and I went into the most memorable experience in my life... tears when I heard Clare.....
Early 70's, just setting out playing the pubs on the weekend, band members ranting about D/S o/t/M,collect my pay on Friday bought the album great gig in the sky hits me and I slip into a substance un aided stupor over this female voice the stuff going on in my head unprintable. Pure perfection
You absolutely fuckin smashed it to pieces you beautiful singing woman.
Still brings tears to my eyes to this day! I got to see them only once in concert; I think it was about ... 1975 or 76 (?) when they performed at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City! The Dark Side of The Moon tour (and album... still my favorite!) And Clare's voice was phenomenal!
To think of Dark Side without Great Gig makes me a bit emotional...I've enjoyed the album since a friend's big brother played it for us to show us how Stereo sound worked... Eight grade 1973. It changed my life and I love it even more today...:) Thanks for the upload.
Well I for one would like,e to thank you Clare for such an incredible contribution to this, My favourite Album of all time. X
What an enchanting lady and what a beautiful voice. That song will always and forever be one of the most beautiful songs ever created. A true masterpiece as is the entirety of dark side of the moon.
Dear Clare, your original version is in my car and my road sweeper. You are fantastic. Thank you for your brilliance.
Many have tried, but no one has duplicated the voice, thank you Clair for one of the greatest vocal performances in history!
Indeed the best piece of music without words ever. Great job Claire & PF👍🏽
this piece is not only unique in rock history, but in all music history! and i swear my entire life on that! divine ethereal lamenting mystic sexy ... and more at the same time! things like this happen only once in anyone's lifetime, if ever, including the people who made it happen! about a decade or so later she tried it again with the band in a live concert and although she did well enough, she couldn't repeat the same thing twice ... which doesn't matter of course, we still have the original ... so glad DSOTM made it to a platinum master! this piece is to be recorded for future generations of humanity FOREVER!
Fantastic to hear from Clare how it unfolded. Thanks for posting.
I had no idea that she invented the solo by herself with a very little direction input. What a moment in musical history. The angels must have been with her that day! And so challenging but beautiful and even heavenly in its delivery! Well done Clare!!!
Thanks Claire, you created a timeless track that never fails to move me. Stunningly beautiful
Legend!!!!
I love watching young people listen to this for the first time...most of them cry!!❤
One of, if not the most emotionally captivating vocal performances ever recorded. The beauty of it is the fact that it has no words, it’s just her conveying the deepest emotions of the human soul through truly remarkable vocal styling.
I find it hard to listen to without getting teary eyed, even after so many years.
Timeless, perfection xx
Absolutamente divino, sentimento puro
Iv'e been listening to this for 39 years, and will never tire, a spectacular piece of on the spur inspiration.
One of the best songs on the album.
She sounds so good with an R&B style to boot. Awesome job Clare.
Great Gig is just a masterpiece.
I confess l have never been a big Floyd fan, but damn, this song is nothing less than a masterpiece.
She seems like a genuinely nice and humble person. It was a moment in time, where her amazing talent and odd Pink Floyd requests resulted in her creation of a unique masterpiece for the ages.
What a fantastic voice and perfect fit for the tune. Working off musical instincts ♥️
Just brilliant & beautiful, best track on the album.
In my book you're a Goddess, miss. Thank you so much for the Gig.
Hands down the best vocal performance I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing.