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"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.[2][3]

"Two Suns in the Sunset"
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Final Cut
Published	Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
Released	21 March 1983 (UK) 2 April 1983 (US)
Recorded	July–December 1982
Genre	Folk rock[1]
Length	5:23
Label	Harvest Records (UK) Columbia Records (US)
Songwriter(s)	Roger Waters
Producer(s)	Roger Waters James Guthrie Michael Kamen

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.[4] 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.[5] The song was partly inspired by Andrzej Wajda's movie Ashes and Diamonds (Polish: Popiół i Diament)[6]

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.[7][8][9]

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."[10]

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.[11]

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

See also

• List of anti-war songs

References

External links

• Roger Waters Setlist at Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador

На других языках

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- [en] Two Suns in the Sunset

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[es] Two Suns in the Sunset

"Two Suns in the Sunset" es la última canción del álbum conceptual de 1983 de Pink Floyd, The Final Cut. Durante la canción, la frase "the sun is in the east, even though the day is done" (del inglés, "el sol está en el Este, aunque el día haya terminado"), es una metáfora haciendo referencia a la bola de fuego incandescente creada por una explosión nuclear.[1]

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