Hawking and Floyd

Division Bell was put out by Pink Floyd after Roger Waters left the band, leaving David Gilmour in charge.

 

Gilmour used Stephen Hawking's voice on the album. Click the picture of Stephen Hawking to hear his voice on The Division Bell, Pink Floyd's 1995 album. <- Hawking, courtesy of Sci Net

 

 

Here's an excerpt from and interview with David Gilmour about dubbing Hawking's voice on to the album.

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Uh, well it's not a real voice. It's the voice of Stephen Hawking, who is the professor who wrote this book called "A Brief History of Time", it's a huge, huge popular book. And he's suffering from moto-neuro disease, and he's in a wheelchair, he can't speak, and this is a voice synthesizer computer thing that has been built for him. I think he can only move one finger, a tiny, tiny little bit, and he works it all with that. And...I saw an advert on the television in England, for a telephone company...and his voice was on this advertisement. And...this advertisement nearly made me weep. I've never had that with a television advertisement before, or with a commercial on the television As I don't suppose *you* have...

the whole interview, curteousy of http://www.pink-floyd.org/artint/radiotdb1994.htm

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