“Brain Damage” by Pink Floyd

"Brain Damage" comes ninth on The Dark Side of the Moon, and it's Roger Waters' song through and through: he wrote it, sings it, and had been carrying it around since the Meddle sessions in 1971, when it went by the name "The Dark Side of the Moon", a title the band later handed to the whole album. On stage and in the studio they called it "Lunatic", and after road-testing it inside the suite "A Piece for Assorted Lunatics" they cut it alongside "Any Colour You Like".

David Gilmour harmonizes with Waters and plays electric guitar, Richard Wright spreads out synthesizer and Hammond organ, and Nick Mason adds tubular bells and tape to his drums, while Lesley Duncan, Doris Troy, Liza Strike and Barry St. John fill in the backing vocals. Alan Parsons engineered it.

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