"I'm in pitch darkness and no one knows I'm there yet. The song is famous for guitarist David Gilmour's epic guitar solo, which provided one of his favorite moments from the legendary tour for The Wall: "It was a fantastic moment, I can tell, to be standing up on there, and Roger's just finished singing his thing, and I'm standing there, waiting," he explained in a 1984 interview. "Comfortably Numb" plays a pivotal role in the film version of The Wall, as explained by Waters during a 1979 interview with Radio 1: " After 'Bring the Boys Back Home,' there is a short piece where a tape loop is used the teachers voice is heard again and you can feel the groupie saying 'Are you feeling okay?' and there’s the operator saying, er, “There’s a man answering” and there’s a new voice introduced at that point and there’s somebody knocking on the door saying 'Come on, it’s time to go,' right, so the idea is that they are coming to take him to the show because he’s got to go and perform that night, and they come into the room and they realize something is wrong, and they actually physically bring the doctor in, and 'Comfortably Numb' is about his confrontation with the doctor." Still, it's gone on to become one of the band's most popular and celebrated songs, and ranked #314 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. A far cry from the first single from The Wall, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)," which had peaked at #1 in March 1980. Released on June 23, 1980, the song somehow failed to chart in America. The experience was the clear influence for "Comfortably Numb," the third and final single from Pink Floyd's blockbuster double-album, The Wall.
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