''Live in Gdańsk'' is a live album by

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. It is a part of his ''

On an Island ''On an Island'' is the third solo studio album by Pink Floyd member David Gilmour. It was released in the UK on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the United States the following day. It was his first solo album in 22 years s ...

'' project which includes an album, tour, DVD, and live album. It was released on 22 September 2008. A David Gilmour Signature Series Fender Stratocaster was released at the same time.

Recording

It is a recording of the final show of his On an Island Tour in 2006, where he played to an audience of 50,000 at the

Gdańsk Shipyard The Gdańsk Shipyard (, formerly Lenin Shipyard) is a large Polish shipyard, located in the city of Gdańsk, northern Poland. The yard gained international fame when Polish trade union Solidarity () was founded there in September 1980. It is sit ...

to celebrate the founding of the Solidarity trade union. The show featured the song " A Great Day for Freedom", from the

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album '' The Division Bell'' (1994) and was the only show of the tour to feature it. It was last performed by Gilmour during his semi-acoustic shows in 2002. Gilmour played the entire ''On an Island'' album during this concert. It's the final Pink Floyd-related recording to feature Richard Wright, who died on 15 September 2008, one week before the album's official release. Also notably, this concert took place approximately one month following the death of

Syd Barrett Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, ...

. Gilmour and his band were backed by the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by

Zbigniew Preisner Zbigniew Preisner (; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as we ...

Leszek Możdżer Leszek Możdżer (Polish pronunciation: born Lesław Henryk Możdżer, 23 March 1971, Gdańsk) is a Polish jazz pianist, music producer and film score composer. Life and career Możdżer was born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk. He began to play t ...

was featured on piano as a special guest.

Editions

The six different available editions of ''Live in Gdańsk'' are: * Two-disc edition containing the concert on CD * Three-disc edition containing the above plus a DVD featuring 114 minutes of concert footage, plus a 36-minute documentary * Four-disc edition containing the above plus a 5.1-surround sound mix of ''On an Island'' and 11 extra audio-visual tracks taken from various TV appearances * Five-disc deluxe edition containing the above plus an extra CD containing 12 bonus live tracks from the 2006 tourPage about the bonus tracks at David Gilmour website
as well as a wallet of memorabilia. * Five-LP vinyl edition containing the whole Gdansk show, including " Wot's... Uh the Deal?" and a bonus LP containing 2 Barn Jams, "On the Turning Away" and two songs from ''Live at Abbey Road''. *

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edition containing the entire album, plus various region-dependent audio and video extras. The DVD that comes with the three-, four-, and five-disc sets allowed the purchaser to download 12 additional tracks free of charge via a web-pass. (As of May 2010, this content is no longer accessible.) These tracks included all 12 tracks on the bonus CD included with the five-disc version, and the song "Wot's...Uh the Deal?" that was performed at the concert but not included on the album itself. The bonus tracks were released one per month as follows: * September 2008: "Wot's...Uh the Deal?" (Gdańsk) * October 2008: "

Shine on You Crazy Diamond "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a nine-part composition recorded by English rock band Pink Floyd written by David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright, which was first performed on their 1974 French tour and appeared in their 1975 concept a ...

" (Venice and Vienne) * November 2008: "Dominoes" (Paris) * December 2008: "The Blue" (Vienne) * January 2009: " Take a Breath" (Munich) * February 2009: "

Wish You Were Here Wish You Were Here may refer to: Film, television, and theater Film * ''Wish You Were Here'' (1987 film), a British comedy-drama film by David Leland * ''Wish You Were Here'' (2012 film), an Australian drama/mystery film by Kieran Darcy-Smith ...

" (Glasgow) * March 2009: " Coming Back to Life" (Florence) * April 2009: "Find the Cost of Freedom" (Manchester) * May 2009: " This Heaven" (Vienne) * June 2009: " Wearing the Inside Out" (Milan) * July 2009: "A Pocketful of Stones" (Vienne) * August 2009: "Where We Start" (Vienne) * September 2009: "

On the Turning Away "On the Turning Away" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1987 album, '' A Momentary Lapse of Reason''. The song was a staple of live shows from the 1987–89 world tours in support of ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason'' and was one of the songs in rotation d ...

" (Venice)

Track listing

Below are the official track listings for the different editions of the album.

Standard edition

The standard two-CD edition is the most basic form of the album and is simply the recording of the Gdańsk show, omitting " Wot's... Uh the Deal?":
Disc 1 # "

Speak to Me "Speak to Me" is the first track on English rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', on which it forms an overture. Nick Mason receives a rare solo writing credit for the track, though recollections differ as to the reas ...

" – 1:23 # " Breathe" – 2:49 # "

Time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

" – 5:38 # " Breathe (Reprise)" – 1:32 # " Castellorizon" –3:47 # "On an Island" – 7:26 # "The Blue" – 6:39 # "Red Sky at Night" – 3:03 # " This Heaven" – 4:33 # "Then I Close My Eyes" – 7:42 # "

Smile A smile is a facial expression formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth. Some smiles include a contraction of the muscles at the corner of the eyes, an action known as a Duchenne smile. Among humans, a smile expresses d ...

" – 4:26 # " Take a Breath" – 6:47 # "A Pocketful of Stones" – 5:41 # "Where We Start" – 8:01 Disc 2 # "

" – 12:07 # " Astronomy Domine" – 5:02 # " Fat Old Sun" – 6:40 # " High Hopes" – 9:57 # " Echoes" – 25:26 # "

" – 5:15 # " A Great Day for Freedom" – 5:56 # "

Comfortably Numb "Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on their eleventh studio album, ''The Wall'' (1979). It was released as a Single (music), single in 1980, with "Hey You (Pink Floyd song), Hey You" as the A-side and B- ...

" – 9:22

Promotion

UK Television
Gilmour guested on

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's live TV show ''Later! Live.... with Jools Holland'' on

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on 23 September 2008, originally to promote the new live album, performing the songs "Astronomy Domine", "The Blue" and "Fat Old Sun" but with the death of Richard Wright on 15 September he changed his set to " Remember a Day" (one of Rick Wright's contributions to the ''

A Saucerful of Secrets ''A Saucerful of Secrets'' is the second studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 June 1968 by Columbia Graphophone Company, EMI Columbia in the UK and in the US by Tower Records (record label), Tower Records. The menta ...

'' album) and "The Blue" (a track from ''On an Island'' to which Wright contributed organ and vocals). On Friday 26 September 2008,

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held a David Gilmour Night, showing part of the Gdańsk concert and "Gdańsk Diary" documentary. US Television
VH1 Classic ran parts of the Gdańsk concert on several nights in late October. The programme includes songs omitted from the DVD: "Speak to Me" / "Breathe", "Time", "Shine on You Crazy Diamond", and "Wish You Were Here". US Cinemas
Selected US cinemas gave showings of the "Gdańsk" concert during release week. This showing also included songs omitted from the DVD: "Speak to Me" / "Breathe", "Time", "Shine on You Crazy Diamond", and "Wish You Were Here", though the theaters' did not show "Echoes". US Radio
Westwood One aired a world première of the "Gdańsk" concert the weekend before release and included new interviews with David Gilmour. DavidGilmour.com
Since the announcement of the sets release, Gilmour has had certain songs up on his site that vary, including "Fat Old Sun" and "Wot's... Uh the Deal?" in low quality.

Personnel

Tour personnel Musicians *

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and backing vocals, console steel guitar, acoustic lap steel guitar,

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

("Red Sky at Night"),

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("Then I Close My Eyes"), * Richard Wright –

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

, Farfisa organ, lead and backing vocals * Jon Carin – keyboards, synthesiser, backing vocals, lap steel guitar, programming *

Guy Pratt Guy Adam Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is a British bassist. He has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Gary Moore, Madonna, Peter Cetera, Michael Jackson, the Smiths, Robert Palmer (singer), Robert Palmer, Echo & the Bunnymen, T ...

–

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

s, backing vocals,

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

, guitar ("Then I Close My Eyes"), glass harmonica ("Shine on You Crazy Diamond") *

Phil Manzanera Phillip Geoffrey Targett-Adams (born 31 January 1951), known professionally as Phil Manzanera, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music, and was the lead guitarist with 801 and Quiet Sun. ...

– guitars, backing vocals, glass harmonica ("Shine on You Crazy Diamond") * Dick Parry –

tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...

and

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

electronic organ An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the pump organ, harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally designed to imitate their sound, or orchestral sounds, it has si ...

, glass harmonica ("Shine on You Crazy Diamond") * Steve DiStanislao –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, backing vocals *

– conductor, orchestra arrangements *

– piano * Polish Baltic Philharmonic –

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

("Castellorizon", "On an Island", "The Blue", "Red Sky at Night", "This Heaven", "Then I Close My Eyes", "Smile", "Take a Breath", "A Pocketful of Stones", "Where We Start"; orchestra arrangements by Zbigniew Preisner except those by Michael Kamen below) *

Michael Kamen Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, record producer and musician. Early life Michael Arnold Kamen was born in ...

– orchestra arrangements ("High Hopes", "A Great Day for Freedom" and "Comfortably Numb") * Igor Sklyarov – glass harmonica ("Shine on You Crazy Diamond", Venice performance only) *

David Crosby David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelic music, psych ...

and

Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is a British and American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills ...

- vocals ("Find the Cost of Freedom") Other * Polly Samson – tour photographer * Anna Wloch – tour photographer * Steve Knee – package design and artwork * Andy Jackson, Devin Workman, Damon Iddins – audio mix * Peter Robson "FEd" – davidgilmour.com * Marc Brickman – visual design * David McIlwaine – wire-man sculpture * Piotr Skonieczny – backstage pass and artist's pass designs and poster design (found in Deluxe Edition)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release schedule

The release dates for the album are as follows: *

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References

External links

''Live In Gdańsk'' at davidgilmour.com
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