James Guthrie Interview

[The Piper]

The Italian fanzine Hey You will soon be publishing an exclusive interview by Chris Diemoz with James Guthrie, who answered 11 questions about Pink Floyd and the making of the new edition of Dark Side.

Chris Diemoz is the author of the recently released "Le canzoni dei Pink Floyd" ('Pink Floyd's songs') through Rome publishers Editori Riuniti. It can be ordered from the publishers through this link or through your local bookshop using the ISBN of 88-359-5313-8, for approximately 15 Euros.

Chris Diemoz: "The book is part of the "Pensieri & Parole" ('Thoughts and Words') series. These volumes try to analyze the history of an artist, or of a band, by taking as a starting point what is much more evident in their production: the lyrics of the songs. Therefore, since Pink Floyd became great due also to the use of effects and of spoken words, on some chapters (espcially The Wall and The Final Cut), I tried to transcribe those parts, and to offer their translation. That stuff, to me, is capital to fully understand Pink Floyd's message. The Wall chapter, then, also relates the songs on the album to the movie and to the live act, giving a wide range of info on what is probably the biggest concept ever in popular music. The books has sixteen chapters. Fifteen are dedicated to the studio albums (being a work on lyrics, it's just on studio versions we focus) and one to the 7" with songs that never ended up on LP (referring mostly to the early years). In each chapter you find: a synthetical introduction, with data on the album (producer, place where it was recorded, artwork for the sleeve, etc...), an introduction providing biographical info on the band's history during the making of the album and then, for each song, a critical analysis of the lyrics, plus the original version and the translated Italian one."

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