SWEET NEEDLES OF SUCCESS

(Music M.Gold/R.Bloss, lyrics M.Gold)
The circus is full of smoke after all these years
Some were good, some were bad, didn’t know what I was about to start
When I started
Though I wrote it all down
God, I was so naive!
When you’re on the show, you’ve got to shoot not to sing
When you’re on the show, you have to shoot not to sing
Wasn’t it worth, anyway, twelve years, six were good, six were bad
Twenty thousand songs in my head and a toast to all the pimps in the world:
«Here’s to you
Hey-hey, here’s to you...!
Till the last bullet’s fired
Welcome, sweet needles of success
Here’s to you! You got to shoot not to sing
Welcome, customers, whores, I still got my gun...!
I still got my gun
Look, I point at you!»
There’s a shadow on the target, I guess you call it future
And the fingertip-orchestras sounded like spirit rapping on the radio
The day the y sold the music for less than a soul to a
Full-playback-pop-music-teenage-hero
Here’s to you! Sweet needles of success
Welcome, customers, whores, I still got my gun!
Here’s to you!
You got to shoot not to sing, I still got some shots inside
Welcome, sweet needles of success
Take me home, take me home
Oh, sweet needles of success
Here I go
Into the dry ice fog

TODAY

(Music M.Gold/A.Schwarz-Ruszczynski, lyrics M.Gold)
Central park looks like a graveyard
It never rained like that before
I took the ferry to New Jersey
Never coming back no more
In my hand I hold my ticket
Statue points up to the clouds
Now I’m leaving New York City
I can hear the seagulls cries
Ain’t no doubt
Whenever I saw you -
It felt like the first time
Whenever I kissed you -
Just like the first time
Whenever I’d hold you
It was never the same
And I thought that the last time
Would never come
Today
Sun is shining down on Berlin
A Turkish bride is passing by
Someone plans a revolution
Little kites dance in the sky
I will always hear your heartbeat
Like a groove of yesterday
Laughter running from the playground
As I watch the children play
Ain’t no doubt
Whenever I was you
It felt like the first time...
Here comes the rain!
Right now!

WHAT IS LOVE?

(M.Gold)
What is love
I’m getting closer to her
And the closer I get the more I lose my fear of loneliness
A step outside in the rain, they just closed the cinemas
I’m lightyears away from you as I drive in my car
And your love shines like a neon sign, it ain’t so far
Just the distance is unbelievable
What is love - unbelievable
What is freedom
I guess that I’m free again
I’m so God damn free to decide whether I’m wrong or right
To win or lose
I love you, I feel like a little boy
Too little to take all your burning love
And toyland is melting away in the heat
And your love shines like a neon sign
What is love - unbelievable

There’s so many people that you knew

To understand everything you do
You’re too far ahead now to need them
They live on the streets you can’t see them
The small and the crushed and the helpless
The weak and the cruel and the useless
They’re following one step behind you

SIRENS (EXCERPT FROM ELEGY)
(Music M.Gold/R.Bloss, lyrics J.Diamond)
When the sirens sing again...
He is sitting on a hill, a vapid night is crawling through the vale
The trees are fangs of transiency, the demons forge hammers and nails
When the sirens sing again...
He will travel all the ways that lead to the unknown lands
Time has distorted his view, an amen in his due
When the sirens sing again
Ad lib

I take the first

train to the heart of the flower
Now on the train: this is the end of my day
I feel my spirits escape like a musical clock that’s dying away
I turn once again and wave my hand and say goodbye
I never thought it’s so easy, I never thought it’s so easy...
I take the first train to the heart of the flower
The heart of the flower

ONE STEP BEHIND YOU
(Tim Whelan)
I’m moving, I’m not going to rest till I find you
I’m following one step behind, I’ll do what I’ll do to remind you
I’m following one step...
I’ve been keeping strange hours, I’ve been saying strange things
I’ve been places where I should not go
But I catch conversations that feature your name
And my ears and my eyes never close
I’ve been all of the places where you used to be
But your friends don’t remember my face
I don’t know if you wonder what’s happening to me
I don’t vanish that easy I’ll make you believe me...
I’m moving, I’m not going to rest till I find you...
Did the voice sound familiar on the landing below
Are the footsteps behind you like mine
You’re a thought in my head I could never let go
And that thought takes up all of my time
Swallowed up by obsessions that can’t be denied
I can’t find out what’s right and what’s wrong
Swallowed up by the whirlpools of colours in the night
Oh, please show me no mercy, my reason deserts me...
I’m moving...

HEART OF THE FLOWER

(Music M.Gold/R.Bloss, lyrics J.Diamond)
Now at the station the train to another land
Lands of never seen light, light hidden in infinite night
Night in its biggest might, might of the strongest power
And there the smoke of the train to the heart of the flower
I take the first train to the heart of the flower
And there the smoke of the train to the heart of the flower
The waiting room of kingdom come, I look back upon my life
Life of loss but now the end, end of rat race overdrive
Overdrive to foreign lands, lands of contemptuous hours
And there the smoke of the train to the heart of the flower

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

(G.Boyter/D.Lewis/C.Malcolm/D.Ross)
You should hear the warning if you read the signs
Play with your own life but don’t play with mine
You’re living your way, I’m living mine
May be tomorrow we will collide
If you knew the action, you see us so blind
Play with your own life but don’t play with mine
The shape of things to come, the shape of things to come
Welcome to the future

A random motion

that’s what you are, these days are quite bizarre
And I wonder to see your face in a place like this reflecting the flames
You see the market there across the square
It’s closing time but all the doors are broken
Why don’t we step inside, it’s free for everyone you see
It’s paradise, well alright
And I wonder to see your face in a place like this reflecting the flames
...And I wonder

AND I WONDER

(M.Gold)
I’m going out, I don’t know why, there’s no need at all
A kind of turbulence outside but I can’t resist the call
I hear a siren, I might be late, fire flickers on a barricade
A piece of smack melts in my brain as I watch the police deploy
And I wonder
Did not expect to meet you there in the middle of the fights
I should have known you got it all, you wanna burn tonight
Out in the riots you looked somehow divine, you gotta kill a cop sometime

Saxophone: Frank Klebbé

Cover Design: Stylorouge
Photography: Marcus Tomlinson
Management: K.P. for United Synergic Enterprises Ltd, London
Thanx to Mike Howlett, Rainer, bernd, Ossi, Gabi, Karin, Julia, Marion, KP, Mario, Toni, Michael, Carlo, Detlef and Gerry.
All songs published at Lunapark, Berlin, except 2: EMI Music Publishing Ltd. / 4: Survival / Chrysalis Music Ltd / 10: Island Music Ltd
Contact: Moon Office, P.O. Box 620349, W-1000, Berlin 62.
Biem / Stemra Made in Germany

Produced

by The Kid & Jon for Chromium Management Ltd
Recording Engineers: The Kid and Jon
Mix Engineers / London: Noel Rafferty / Mike Gang
Engineer / Berlin: Frank Rosmann
Recorded at Lunapark Studios / Berlin and Cranfield Court / London
Mixed at Mayfair Village, Battery & Ezee, London by The Kid & Jon
Keyboards and Programming: The Kid
Additional Keyboards: Stephan Gottwald
Guitars: Adrian Fortas, Ian Bairnson, Mike Ging
Additional Guitars: Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski, Rolando Belli and Jonathan Garfield
Additional Backing Vocals: Sandra Edwards, Victorial Miles, Jocelyn B. Smith, The Kid, Sonia Jones, Maggie Ryder, Miriam Stockley

So Long Celeste (1992)

1 And I Wonder (4.10))
2 The Shape of Things to Come (4.02)
3 Heart of the Flower (5.20)
4 One Step Behind You (3.53)
5 Sirens (excerpt from Elegy) (4.42)
6 What is Love? (5.00)
7 Today (4.26)
8 Peace on Earth (4.46)
9 Sweet Needles of Success (3.23)
10 Roll Away the Stone (3.21)


Notes:


Marian Gold's first solo album. Four of the songs are cover versions, the rest are original.
The cover versions are "The Shape of Things to Come" (written by G. Boyter, D. Lewis, C. Malcolm and D. Ross), "One Step Behind You" (by Tim Whelan), "Peace on Earth" (E. Sooter, J. Mennicken, and Voov) and "Roll Away the Stone" (Ian Hunter).
The album cover features Marian in a thoughtful pose, with the song titles overlaid on the image. The CDs had an added sticker announcing that Marian is "the voice of Alphaville".
Recording So Long Celeste

It may be,

as Gilmour dryly asserts, that Pink Floyd have "not all that much to prove anymore." Then there is Mason's view that "the madness is still rampant. There is still everything to play for." Whatever the case may be, it's good to hear that--as the band's illustrious past forms a billowing cloud around the promise of an even more exciting future--the members of Pink Floyd have never sounded so confidently, and radiantly, themselves.

Joining

the Pink Floyd triumvirate on THE DIVISION BELL are several guest musicians, including Tim Renwick (guitars and vocals), Guy Pratt (bass guitar and vocals), Gary Wallis (percussion) and Jon Carin (keyboards and vocals); backing vocalists are Durga McBroom, Sam Browne and Claudia Fontaine. The new release also marks the return of Dick Parry, who played saxophone on Dark Side Of The Moon .

represents

a return to those cooperative group principles which disappeared in the late Seventies. In the beginning of 1993, Gilmour, Mason and Wright spent two weeks improvising together, compiling nearly 50 song ideas. The next step was to enlist producer Bob Ezrin, who had helped pound The Wall and A Momentary Lapse of Reason into shape. The result? Perhaps the most achingly beautiful album of their long career.

"The album

and the tour were a rehabilitative process for all of us," says Gilmour. "When the three of us sit down and play, it sounds like Pink Floyd. There's a very distinct value in that, which was important for me to discover. There's something bigger than any one person's ego." The Division BellThe band's new album, THE DIVISION BELL

Two years

and one solo album later, Waters announced that he was leaving the band. Waters' departure sparked a creative renaissance among the remaining three members, resulting in another Floyd classic, A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987). The album was universally hailed as a return to form, delighting even die-hard Floyd fans. Pulling out all the stops, the trio hit the road with yet another live extravaganza, documented by 1988's Delicate Sound of Thunder. Both albums combined sold over 11 million copies, with the live set achieving the distinction of becoming the first rock album to be played in outer space by the crew of the Soviet-French Soyuz-7 mission.

The Wall

"Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2." The stage show for the subsequent tour, one of the most ambitiously theatrical the rock world had ever seen, was subsequently made into a film by director Alan Parker, with Bob Geldof starring as the mad rock dictator, Pink.
The album's success unfortunately fanned the flames of the band's disintegration. By the early Eighties, the group had virtually dissolved into an association of solo artists, with each member pursuing individual projects. The Final Cut, recorded in 1983, was -- not surprisingly -- a somewhat dispirited affair. "It was really Roger's solo album," says Mason. "The rest of us just sort of drifted into it."

"I liked Roger's

story line," says Gilmour. "Although I didn't totally agree with it, you've got to let a chap have his vision. I just had a different view of our relationship with our audience than Roger did. He didn't like touring and felt there was no connection between him and the audience. I had a different view of it; I still do." Despite growing philosophical disagreements within the band, The Wall went on to sell 20 million copies worldwide and spawned a Number One single, the anti-authoritarian anthem.