“In The Flesh” by Pink Floyd

"In the Flesh" is the 21st song on The Wall, Pink Floyd's eleventh studio album, from 1979, and it reprises the opener, "In the Flesh?", now with a choir, different verses and a bigger, longer arrangement. The title points back to the band's 1977 In the Flesh Tour, when Roger Waters, at the end of his rope, spat at a fan who was trying to climb the fence between the stage and the crowd.

Waters wrote it, sings lead and plays bass and synth, with David Gilmour on guitar, Nick Mason on drums, Richard Wright on synth and Fred Mandel on Hammond organ, while a six-voice choir that includes Bruce Johnston and Toni Tennille swells behind them. Bob Ezrin produced it with Gilmour and Waters, and James Guthrie co-produced and engineered. It lumbers along in 6/8, all pomp and menace.

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