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A complete guide to who was the singer in each Pink Floyd song

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A complete guide to who was the singer in each Pink Floyd song

Like almost all the extremely successful bands in the history of music, Pink Floyd also had many eras with members and it’s not always easy to identify which member of the group sings each track of their long discography. Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour  musicians who weren’t part of the band and even a dog already occupied the lead vocals of Pink Floyd, even if it was just one song.

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To organize and make it easier to see who is the lead vocalist in each Pink Floyd track, Rock and Roll Garage produced a complete guide. You can see below who sings each Pink Floyd song.

A complete guide to who was the singer in each Pink Floyd song

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

The Piper at The Gates of Dawn

Side one

  1. “Astronomy Domine” – (Syd Barrett and Richard Wright on vocals)
  2. “Lucifer Sam” (Syd Barrett on vocals)
  3. “Matilda Mother” (Syd Barrett and Richard Wright on vocals)
  4. “Flaming” (Syd Barrett on vocals)
  5. “Pow R. Toc H.” (Instrumental)
  6. “Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk” (Roger Waters on vocals)

Side two

  • “Interstellar Overdrive” (Instrumental)
  • “The Gnome” (Syd Barrett on vocals)
  • “Chapter 24” (Syd Barrett on vocals)
  • “The Scarecrow” (Syd Barrett on vocals)
  • “Bike” (Syd Barrett on vocals)

A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)

Side one

  1. “Let There Be More Light” (Richard Wright and David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “Remember a Day” (Richard Wright on vocals)
  3. “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  4. “Corporal Clegg” (David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason on vocals)

Side two

  1. “A Saucerful of Secrets” (Instrumental)
    I. “Something Else”
    II. “Syncopated Pandemonium”
    III. “Storm Signal”
    IV. “Celestial Voices”
  2. “See-Saw” (Richard Wright on vocals)
  3. “Jugband Blues” (Syd Barrett on vocals)

More (1969)

More

Side one

  1. “Cirrus Minor” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “The Nile Song” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “Crying Song” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  4. “Up the Khyber” (Instrumental)
  5. “Green Is the Colour” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Cymbaline” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  7. “Party Sequence” (Instrumental)

Side two

  1. “Main Theme” (Instrumental)
  2. “Ibiza Bar” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “More Blues” (Instrumental)
  4. “Quicksilver” (Instrumental)
  5. “A Spanish Piece” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Dramatic Theme” (Instrumental)

Ummagumma (1969)

Side one

  1. “Astronomy Domine” (David Gilmour (High), Roger Waters (Backing) and Richard Wright on vocals – Low)
  2. “Careful with That Axe, Eugene” (Roger Waters recorded the scream and David Gilmour the spoken part)

Side two

  1. “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  2. “A Saucerful of Secrets (Instrumental)
    I. “Something Else”
    II. “Syncopated Pandemonium”
    III. “Storm Signal”
    IV. “Celestial Voices”

Studio album

Side three

  1. “Sysyphus” (Instrumental)
  2. “Grantchester Meadows” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  3. “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” (Roger Waters on vocals)

Side four

  1. “The Narrow Way – Parts 1, 2 & 3” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party” (Instrumental)
    Part I. Entrance
    Part II. Entertainment
    Part III. Exit”

Atom Heart Mother (1970)

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Side one

  1. “Atom Heart Mother” (Instrumental)

Side two

2. “If” (Roger Waters on vocals)
3. “Summer ’68” (Richard Wright on vocals)
4. “Fat Old Sun” (David Gilmour on vocals)
5. “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast” (Instrumental with speech by Alan Styles)

Meddle (1971)

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Side one

  1. “One of These Days” (Instrumental)
  2. “A Pillow of Winds” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “Fearless” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  4. “San Tropez” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  5. “Seamus” (Seamus the dog)

Side two

  1. “Echoes” (David Gilmour and Richard Wright on vocals)

Obscured by Clouds (1972)

Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds

Side one

  1. “Obscured by Clouds” (Instrumental)
  2. “When You’re In” (Instrumental)
  3. “Burning Bridges” (David Gilmour and Richard Wright on vocals) 
  4. “The Gold It’s in the…” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  5. “Wot’s… Uh the Deal?” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Mudmen” (Instrumental)

Side two

  1. “Childhood’s End” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “Free Four” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  3. “Stay” (Richard Wright on vocals)
  4. “Absolutely Curtains” (Instrumental)

The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

Side one

  1. “Speak to Me” (Instrumental)
  2. “Breathe (In the Air)” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “On the Run” (Instrumental)
  4. “Time” (David Gilmour and Richard Wright on vocals)
  5. “The Great Gig in the Sky” (Clare Torry on vocals)

Side two

  1. “Money” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “Us and Them” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “Any Colour You Like” (Instrumental)
  4. “Brain Damage”(Roger Waters on vocals)
  5. “Eclipse” (Roger Waters on vocals)

Wish You Were Here (1975)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Side one

  1. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (Parts I–V) (Roger Waters on vocals)
  2. “Welcome to the Machine” (David Gilmour on vocals)

Side two

  1. “Have a Cigar” (Roy Harper)
  2. “Wish You Were Here” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (Parts VI–IX) (Roger Waters on vocals)

Animals (1977)

Pink Floyd - Animals

Side one

  1. “Pigs on the Wing (Part One)” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  2. “Dogs” (David Gilmour on vocals)

Side two

  1. “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  2. “Sheep” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  3. “Pigs on the Wing (Part Two)” (Roger Waters on vocals)

The Wall (1979)

The Wall

Side one

  1. “In the Flesh?” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  2. “The Thin Ice” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  4. “The Happiest Days of Our Lives” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  5. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Mother” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)

Side two

  1. “Goodbye Blue Sky” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “Empty Spaces” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  3. “Young Lust” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  4. “One of My Turns” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  5. “Don’t Leave Me Now” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  7. “Goodbye Cruel World” (Roger Waters on vocals)

Side three

  1. “Hey You” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “Is There Anybody Out There?” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “Nobody Home” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  4. “Vera” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  5. “Bring the Boys Back Home” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  6. “Comfortably Numb” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)

Side four

  1. “The Show Must Go On” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  2. “In the Flesh” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  3. “Run Like Hell” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  4. “Waiting for the Worms” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  5. “Stop” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  6. “The Trial” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  7. “Outside the Wall” (Roger Waters on vocals)

The Final Cut (1983)

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Side one

  1. “The Post War Dream” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  2. “Your Possible Pasts” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  3. “One of the Few” (Roger Waters on vocals) 
  4. “When the Tigers Broke Free” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  5. “The Hero’s Return” (Roger Waters on vocals) 
  6. “The Gunner’s Dream” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  7. “Paranoid Eyes” (Roger Waters on vocals)

Side two

  1. “Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  2. “The Fletcher Memorial Home” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  3. “Southampton Dock” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  4. “The Final Cut” (Roger Waters on vocals)
  5. “Not Now John” (Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Two Suns in the Sunset” (Roger Waters on vocals)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

  1. “Signs of Life” (Instrumental)
  2. “Learning to Fly” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “The Dogs of War” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  4. “One Slip” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  5. “On the Turning Away” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Yet Another Movie” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  7. “Round and Around” (Instrumental)
  8. “A New Machine (Part 1)” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  9. “Terminal Frost” (Instrumental)
  10. “A New Machine (Part 2)” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  11. “Sorrow” (David Gilmour on vocals)

The Division Bell (1994)

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

  1. “Cluster One” (Instrumental)
  2. “What Do You Want from Me” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  3. “Poles Apart” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  4. “Marooned” (Instrumental)
  5. “A Great Day for Freedom” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  6. “Wearing the Inside Out” (David Gilmour and Richard Wright on vocals)
  7. “Take It Back” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  8. “Coming Back to Life” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  9. “Keep Talking” (Instrumental)
  10. “Lost for Words” (David Gilmour on vocals)
  11. “High Hopes” (David Gilmour on vocals)

Endless River (2014)

Pink Floyd - Endless RIver

Disc 1

  1. “Things Left Unsaid” (Instrumental)
  2. “It’s What We Do” (Instrumental)
  3. “Ebb and Flow” (Instrumental)

Disc 2

  1. “Sum” (Instrumental)
  2. “Skins” (Instrumental)
  3. “Unsung” (Instrumental)
  4. “Anisina” (Instrumental)

Disc 3

  1. “The Lost Art of Conversation” (Instrumental)
  2. “On Noodle Street” (Instrumental)
  3. “Night Light” (Instrumental)
  4. “Allons-y (1)” (Instrumental)
  5. “Autumn ’68” (Instrumental)
  6. “Allons-y (2)” (Instrumental)
  7. “Talkin’ Hawkin'” (Instrumental)

Disc 4

  1. “Calling” (Instrumental)
  2. “Eyes to Pearls” (Instrumental)
  3. “Surfacing” (Instrumental)
  4. “Louder than Words” (David Gilmour on vocals)

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