WCSX Classic Cuts : Comfortably Numb

WCSX Classic Cuts

Pink Floyd: "Comfortably Numb"

The Hook: So comfortable to play that it could turn a sub-par performance around.

Album: The Wall

Year: 1979

Writers: David Gilmour and Roger Waters

Stats: Though released as a single, it did not chart, but received major U.S. rock radio airplay. In a 2011, it got the fifth highest number of votes in a BBC Radio Four poll in the U.K. that ranked listeners choices for their desert island discs.

Background: It was a favorite of the group's late keyboardist, Rick Wright, who once explained how important it was in the group's live show.

The late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright on “Comfortably Numb.” OC:…happy again. :15

“I do like that song and I think it’s got a great structure to it. And it’s a lovely song to perform live, it really is. If sometimes it’s going quite hard on stage and it’s not quite working and I know that we’re coming up to ‘Comfortably Numb,’ I get very happy again.”