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Fearless (Pink Floyd song)

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A-side
  
"One of These Days"

Genre
  
Folk rock

Format
  
7-inch single

Length
  
6:08

Released
  
29 November 1971 (1971-11-29)

Recorded
  
January–August 1971 AIR Studios, Abbey Road Studios, and Morgan Studios (London, United Kingdom)

"Fearless" is the third track on the 1971 album Meddle by Pink Floyd. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.

Contents

Recording

The song's slow tempo and mellow acoustic sound bear similarities to some of the other tracks on the first side of the album. David Gilmour and Roger Waters composed the song on guitar using an open tuning in G major taught to Waters by former member Syd Barrett.

Near the beginning and at the end of the song, a field recording of fans in Liverpool's Kop singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" is superimposed over the music. This Rodgers and Hammerstein song became the anthem of Liverpool F.C. after Gerry & the Pacemakers had a number-one hit with their recording.

B-side status

Although it was not released as a single in the UK and only played live by the band once, it was released as the "B-side" of the single "One of These Days" in 1971.

Personnel

  • David Gilmour – acoustic and electric guitars, vocals
  • Roger Waters – bass guitar
  • Richard Wright – piano
  • Nick Mason – drums and percussion

    • with:

  • Liverpool F.C. Fans Kop – chanting "You'll Never Walk Alone"

    • Cover versions

  • Fish, Songs from the Mirror (covers album, 1993)
  • Gerald Collier, Gerald Collier (1998)
  • Color Filter, I Often Think In Music (2000)
  • Tom Freund, A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd (tribute album, 2003)
  • Low, A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides and Rarities (2004)
  • The String Cheese Incident, Live at Asheville (2004)
  • The Ohsees, OCS 2 (2004)
  • Mary Lou Lord, Baby Blue (2004)
  • Shadow Gallery, Room V (2005), as part of the Pink Floyd medley "Floydian Memories"
  • Ambulance LTD, New English EP (2006)
  • Marco Benevento, Live at Tonic (2007)
  • Tizrel Bodegus, Live at the Savoy (2007)
  • Gov't Mule, Dark Side Of The Mule (2014), first played at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on Halloween 2008, 31 October 2008, during their Mule-O-Ween Pink Floyd Set
  • Umphrey's McGee, covered at numerous live shows
  • The Atlas Moth, One Amongst the Weed Fields (covers EP, 2010)
  • The Black Crowes, covered at numerous live shows

    • In Richard Linklater's film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), stoner/philosopher Willoughby (Wyatt Russell) plays Pink Floyd's "Fearless" for his housemates while praising the arrangement.

    References

    Fearless (Pink Floyd song) Wikipedia
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