Also included is "Je crois entendre encore" ("I still believe I hear") – an aria from Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)[6] – with a
libretto by
Eugène Cormon and
Michel Carré. Sung by Gilmour in the original French. "I remember my wife
Polly's face going red when I tried singing it," he recalled, "and my face literally going into a cold sweat – 'Do I dare try this?' But once the choir came up here [Gilmour's studio] and ran through it with me, that gave me a huge amount of confidence."[7]
Bob Geldof – vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (January 2002 footage)
Robert Wyatt – vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (June 2001 footage)
Richard Wright – vocals on "Breakthrough", keyboards on "Breakthrough" and "Comfortably Numb"
Special features
The 30 minutes of special features on the DVD include the tracks "
I Put a Spell on You" (from
Later with Jools Holland from June 1992), "Don't" (from a
Leiber-Stoller Tribute concert from June 2001), and a performance of
Shakespeare's
Sonnet 18 (recorded on Gilmour's houseboat
The Astoria).[8][9] Additionally, there is a version of "
High Hopes" performed by Gilmour's backing vocalists. Finally, there are lyrics, a home movie of the band and choir rehearsing at home, and a 'Spare Digits' feature - a camera on Gilmour's
fretboards during six guitar solos.[9][5]
Quotes
I can show you places where the nerves are there. At the beginning of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', there's a closeup of me doing a vibrato on the acoustic guitar which is more than I'd ever intended. That was due to trembling. It wasn't as under control as one would like it to be.
How did you go about choosing the material for the shows?
I went through the entire
Pink Floyd catalogue, and I picked the tunes I liked. Then, after I figured out which ones would work with the instrumentation I had in mind, I spent about three months fiddling around in my home studio mocking up the arrangements.
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