Chart Info:

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason debuts at #43 in the USA charts on 26/9/87. Highest it gets is #3 in USA charts. However, CD of album goes to #1 on USA CD charts on 10/10/87 and stays for 6 weeks at #1. Highest UK charting is #3. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason goes Platinum in the USA on 28/1187.

Album Info:

After the departure of Waters in 1985 and a tense period of well-published wrangling over rights to the group name, Gilmour began to put together a new Pink Floyd album in 1987 using the American producer of The Wall, Bob Ezrin, and working on songs with a squad of assistants, including Phil
Manzanera. Like its predecessor, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason eventually turned out to be a solo album in all but name.

David Gilmour: "Both Nick and Rick were catatonic in terms of their playing ability at the beginning. Neither of them played on this at all really. In my view, they'd been destroyed by Roger. Nick played a few tom-toms on one track, but for the rest I had to get in other drummers. Rick played some tiny little parts. For a lot of it, I played the keyboards and pretended it was him. The record was basically made by me, and other people and God knows what. I didn't think it was the best Pink Floyd album ever made, but I gave it the best damn shot I could."

Nick Mason: "Dave was under a lot of pressure to come up with songs and he looked for help where he could find it. It was fun recording on the boat (Gilmour's floating studio at Hampton-on-Thames) but then we went to America and hired all these sessions musicians who could knock things offquickly. At the time it seemed like a reasonable route to go but that was quite alarming for me."

Rick Wright: "I wasn't a member of the band. By now they didn't know me. We hadn't played together for years. I was paid a wage on the sessions. I did get royalties on the album. Not as many as Dave and Nick though."

Produced by: Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour

Recording and mixing engineered by Andrew Jackson
Assisted by: Robert (Ringo) Hrycyna
with Marc Desisto, Stan Katayama, Jeff Demorris
Additional Re-mixing: James Guthrie
Special thanks to Anthony Moore, Phil Manzanera, Langley Iddens, Tim Daly &
Mike Wennink
Recorded at: Astoria, Hampton
Britannia Row Studios, London
A & M Studios, Los Angeles
Can Am Studios, Los Angeles
Village Recorder, Los Angeles
Mayfair, London
Audio International, London
Also thanks to Winston Johnson at Cama, Gary Barlog at Producer's Workshop,
Air London.
Art Direction: Storm Thorgerson
Front Cover concepts: Storm Thorgerson and Nexus
Graphic Design: Andrew Ellis, Icon, London
Photography: Robert Dowling
Production: Lance Williams, Richard Shaw
Portrait: David Bailey
Additional Photography: Robert Mort
Artwork: Mekon

Spherical Sound by: Tom Jones, Ken Caillats, Sarah Bruce
Recorded by: Guy Charbonneau, Le Mobile, Los Angeles
Additional Sound Effects by Andrew Jackson
General Technical & Musical Instrument Supervision: Phil Taylor
Mastered at: Mastering Lab & Precision Lacquer
Recorded Digitally (except acoustic drums & bass guitar)

Guest Artists:

Richard Wright: Piano, Vocals, Kurzweil, Hammond Organ
Bob Ezrin: Keyboards, Percussion, Sequencers
Tony Levin: Bass Guitar, Stick
Jim Keltner: Drums
Steve Forman: Percussion
Jon Carin: Keyboards
Tom Scott: Alto and Sorprano Saxophone
Scott Page: Tenor Saxophone
Carmine Appice: Drums
Pat Leonard: Synthesizers
Bill Payne: Hammond Organ
Michael Landau: Guitar
John Halliwell: Saxophone
Darlene Koldenhaven: Backing Vocals
Carmen Twillie: Backing Vocals
Phyllis St. James: Backing Vocals
Donnie Gerrard: Backing Vocals