Pink Floyd: Any Colour You Like

"Any Colour You Like" is the eighth track (or seventh, depending on the release date of the album) from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd&1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. It is instrumental and was written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, making it one of two songs on the album that Roger Waters did not contribute to, and along with Wright&"Great Gig in the Sky" also from the album, was the last Pink Floyd song that Waters had no part in writing while he was still a member. The piece itself features no lyrics, and consists of a synthesized tune which segues into a guitar solo (some scat vocals are added later on, these were more prominent in live versions but are still audible in the studio cut). It is approximately 3 minutes, 26 seconds in length. The song used advanced effects for the time both in the keyboard and the guitar. The VCS 3 synthesizer was fed through a long tape loop to create the rising and falling keyboard solo. David Gilmour used two guitars with the UniVibe guitar effect to create the harmonizing guitar solo for the rest of the song. "Any Colour You Like" is also known (and is even listed on the "Dark Side" guitar tablature book) as "Breathe (Second Reprise)" because the song shares the same beat (albeit somewhat funkier and uptempo) as the album&song "Breathe." It has also nearly the same chord sequence just transposed a whole step lower from E minor to D minor. While the song is instrumental, it has been speculated that the...