Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume I is a compilation album of former Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...

 member Roger Waters

Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...

' solo material, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music

2002 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...

). It had never been released in North America, until May 30, 2011, when this album along with the rest of the Waters' solo material was released as part of "The Roger Waters Collection" Boxset. The album will be sold separately from the compilation, for a 12 months term.

It was released in many countries on a copy protected optical disc, thereby failing to comply with the CD standard and not entitled to use the CD logo. Such editions bore the legend "will not play on PC/MAC". In other countries (including Argentina), the album was released on a true CD. The disk bore the CD logo, and the cover art did not have the warning indicating that it could not be played on a computer.

Track listing

1. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door
   Knockin' on Heaven's Door
   "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.-Story line and song structure:...
   
   " – 4:06 (from the film The Dybbuk of The Holy Apple Field 1998)
2. "Too Much Rope" – 5:12 (from Amused to Death
   Amused to Death
   Amused to Death is a concept album, and the third studio album by former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters. It was released in 1992.The album title was attached to material that Waters began working on during the Radio KAOS tour...
   
   1992)
3. "The Tide Is Turning
   The Tide Is Turning
   "The Tide Is Turning " is a song from the 1987 album Radio K.A.O.S., by Roger Waters. Though Waters had offered his services for the Live Aid concert in 1985 and was turned down by organizer Bob Geldof, the event still inspired Waters to write this song...
   
   " – 5:24 (from Radio K.A.O.S 1987)
4. "Perfect Sense, part I & II" [live] – 7:22 (from In the Flesh - Live 2000)
5. "Three Wishes" – 6:49 (from Amused to Death 1992)
6. "5:06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)" – 4:47 (from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
   The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
   The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is a 1984 concept album and the first solo album by English musician Roger Waters. The album was certified gold in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 1995.-Concept history:...
   
   1984)
7. "Who Needs Information" – 5:55 (from Radio K.A.O.S 1987)
8. "Each Small Candle
   Each Small Candle
   "Each Small Candle" is a song by Roger Waters. It was released on his album In the Flesh Live in 2000. Most of the lyrics were inspired by a news story from the Kosovo war of a Serbian soldier who saw a wounded Albanian woman, left his ranks and helped her....
   
   " [live] – 8:34 (from In The Flesh 2000)
9. "Flickering Flame [new demo]" – 6:45 (2001)
10. "Towers of Faith" – 6:52 (from When the Wind Blows (soundtrack) 1986)
11. "Radio Waves" – 4:31 (from Radio K.A.O.S 1987)
12. "Lost Boys Calling [original demo]" – 4:06 (finished version appears in the film The Legend of 1900
    The Legend of 1900
    The Legend of 1900 is a 1998 film directed by the Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth. This is Tornatore's first English-language film. The film is inspired by a theater monologue, Novecento, by Alessandro Baricco...
    
    1999)

All tracks composed by Roger Waters except track 1, composed by Bob Dylan and track 12, composed by Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

 and Roger Waters.

Personnel

01 Knockin' On Heaven's Door

• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - vocals, bass
• Simon Chamberlain - keyboards
• Clem Clempson
  Clem Clempson
  Clem Clempson is an English rock guitarist who has played in a number of bands including Colosseum and Humble Pie.-Career:...
  
   - electric/acoustic guitar
• Katie Kissoon - backing vocals
• Nick Griffiths
  Nick Griffiths
  Nicholas David Griffiths is an Australian politician.He currently is the member of the Western Australian Legislative Council representing the East Metropolitan Region.Griffiths was born in Barry, Wales...
  
   - produced

02 Too Much Rope & 05 Three Wishes

• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - words & music, vocals
• Patrick Leonard
  Patrick Leonard
  Patrick Raymond Leonard is an American songwriter, keyboardist and music producer, known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna on many different recordings....
  
   - keyboards
• Andy Fairweather Low - Rickenbacker 12 string played with a feather
• Geoff Whitehorn - guitars
• Steve Lukather
  Steve Lukather
  Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...
  
   - additional guitars
• James Johnson - bass
• Graham Broad
  Graham Broad
  Graham Broad is an English drummer who has been playing professionally since the age of fifteen, after attending the Royal College of Music in 1970....
  
   - drums
• Luis Conte - percussion
• Katie Kissoon - background vocals
• Doreen Chanter - background vocals
• Jessica & Jordan Leonard - screaming kids at the end
• National Philharmonic Orchestra
• Patrick Leonard
  Patrick Leonard
  Patrick Raymond Leonard is an American songwriter, keyboardist and music producer, known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna on many different recordings....
  
   & Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - produced
• Nick Griffiths - co-produced & recorded
• James Guthrie
  James Guthrie (record producer)
  James K.A. Guthrie is a British recording engineer and record producer best known for his work with the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, having served as a producer and engineer for the band since 1978...
  
   - mixed

03 The Tide Is Turning, 07 Who Needs Information & 11 Radio Waves

• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - words & music, vocals, bass
• Andy Fairweather Low & Jay Stapely - electric guitar
• Mel Collins
  Mel Collins
  Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...
  
   - saxophones
• Ian Ritchie - fairlight programming, drum programming, piano, keyboards
• Graham Broad - drums and percussion
• Suzanne Rhatigan - main backing vocals
• Ian Ritchie, John Phirkell, Peter Thomas - horn section
• Ian Ritchie - arranged
• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   & Ian Ritchie - produced

04 Perfect Sense, Part I & II & 08 Each Small Candle

• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - words & music, vocals, bass & guitar
• Doyle Bramhall II - guitar
• Graham Broad - drums
• Jon Carin - keyboards
• Andy Fairweather - guitar, bass & vocal
• Katie Kissoon, Susannah Melvion, P P Arnold - low vocals
• Andy Wallace - hammond/keyboards
• Snowy White
  Snowy White
  Snowy White is an English guitarist, known for having played with Thin Lizzy and with Pink Floyd and, more recently, for Roger Waters'...
  
   - guitar
• James Guthrie - produced & mixed

06 5.06am (Every Stranger´s Eyes)

• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - words & music, vocal, bass, guitar
• Andy Bown
  Andy Bown
  Andy Bown is an English musician, who has specialised in keyboards and bass guitar. He is a member of the rock band Status Quo.-Career:...
  
   - hammond organ & 12 string guitar
• Ray Cooper
  Ray Cooper
  Ray Cooper is an English musician. He is a session and road-tour percussionist, and occasional actor, who has worked with several musically diverse bands and artists including George Harrison, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, and Elton John. Cooper is commonly regarded by music fans, critics and fellow...
  
   - percussion
• Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
  
   - lead guitar
• Michael Kamen
  Michael Kamen
  Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer , orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.-Background:...
  
   - piano, National Philharmoninc Orchestra conducted & arranged
• Andy Newmark
  Andy Newmark
  Andrew "Andy" Newmark is an American musician, best known as a popular session drummer, and for playing with the funk band Sly & the Family Stone from 1972 to 1973....
  
   - drums
• David Sanborn
  David Sanborn
  David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...
  
   - saxophone
• Madeline Bell
  Madeline Bell
  Madeline Bell is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, having arrived from the US in the gospel show Black Nativity in 1962, with vocal group The Bradford Singers.-Career:She worked as a session singer, most notably backing for Dusty...
  
  , Katie Kissoon, Doreen Chanter
  Doreen Chanter
  Doreen Chanter is a British singer best known for her career as a member of the Chanter Sisters and for her work as a backing vocalist and session vocalist during the 1970s and 1980s.-Chanter Sisters:...
  
   - backing vocals
• Raphael Ravenscroft
  Raphael Ravenscroft
  Raphael Ravenscroft is a Scottish saxophonist and author on saxophone play. He now resides in Exeter, Devon, England.He is best known for his work with Gerry Rafferty, performing the saxophone solo on "Baker Street". Ravenscroft was paid £27 for the session, with a cheque that bounced...
  
  , Kevin Flanagan, Vic Sullivan - horns
• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   & Michael Kamen
  Michael Kamen
  Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer , orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.-Background:...
  
   - produced

09 Flickering Flame

• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - words & music, vocals, acoustic guitar, bass
• Jon Carin
  Jon Carin
  Jon Carin is a producer, artist and musician best known for his association with Pink Floyd, and more specifically its guitarist David Gilmour and former member Roger Waters over the last twenty five years. In the early eighties, he gained fame as the front-man for the band Industry...
  
   - keyboards
• Doyle Bramhall II
  Doyle Bramhall II
  Doyle Bramhall II is a guitarist and vocalist in his band Smokestack and was also the second guitarist in Eric Clapton's band from 2004 to 2009.-Discography:with Arc Angels*Arc Angels...
  
   - guitar, bass
• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   & Nick Griffiths - produced

10 Towers of Faith

• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - words & music, vocals
• Matt Irving - keyboards
• Jay Stapely - electric guitar
• John Linwood - linn programming
• Freddie KRC - drums
• Mel Collins
  Mel Collins
  Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...
  
   - saxophone
• John Gordon - bass
• Clare Torry
  Clare Torry
  Clare Torry is a British singer who famously performed the wordless vocals on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky" on the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon.-Education:...
  
   - vocals
• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
   - produced
• Nick Griffiths - co-producer & engineer
• Colin Lyon - assistant engineer

12 Lost Boys Calling (original demo)

• Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
  
   - music
• Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
  
  - words, vocals
• Rick Wentworth - orchestration
• Nick Griffiths - mixed

External links

• Pink Floyd Hyperbase, "Flickering Flame" entry