A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the eleventh studio album by English
progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released in September 1987. In 1985
guitarist David Gilmour (pictured) began to assemble a group of
musicians to work on his third solo album. At the end of 1986 however,
he changed his mind, and decided that the new material would be
included in a new Pink Floyd album instead. Subsequently Pink Floyd
drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright (who had left the
group in 1979) were brought on board the project. Although for legal
reasons Wright could not be re-admitted to the band, he and Mason
helped Gilmour craft what would become the first Pink Floyd album since
the departure of lyricist and bass guitarist Roger Waters in December
1985. The album was recorded primarily on Gilmour's converted
houseboat, Astoria. Its production was marked by an ongoing legal
dispute between Waters and the band as to who owned the rights to Pink
Floyd's name, which was not resolved until several months after the
album was released. Unlike most of Pink Floyd's other studio albums, A
Momentary Lapse of Reason has no central theme, and is instead a
collection of rock songs written mostly by Gilmour and musician Anthony
Moore. Although the album received mixed reviews and was derided by
Waters, with the help of an enormously successful world tour it easily
out-sold their previous album The Final Cut. A Momentary Lapse of
Reason is certified multi-platinum in the US.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1598:
King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of
religion to the Huguenots.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Nantes>
1873:
In the wake of a contested election for local political offices in
Colfax, Louisiana, US, armed white supremacists overpowered freedmen
and the African American state militia trying to control the parish
courthouse, killing over 100 of them.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre>
1919:
British Indian Army troops massacred hundreds of unarmed men, women and
children who were attending a peaceful gathering at the Jallianwala
Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, India.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre>
1956:
The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cut , military commander of
the Hoa Hao religious sect, which ran a de facto state in southern
Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_Cut>
1984:
Indian forces launched Operation Meghdoot, a preemptive attack on the
disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir, triggering a military
conflict with Pakistan.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siachen_conflict>
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I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form
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