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“Marooned” is an instrumental track on Pink Floyd’s 1994 album, The Division Bell; the track won a Grammy award in 1995. The piece was written by David Gilmour and Richard Wright, also known as a pitch shifter. Alike to “Is There Anybody Out There?“ this song also used the shrill siren-like sound effect of the song “Echoes”. David Gilmour has mentioned that “pretty much” all of Marooned is improvised and that he “probably took three or four passes at it and took the best bits out of each” This song has only been played live 3 times. On the two dates in Oslo, Norway (one of which is featured on the Pulse DVD) on the 1994 “The Division Bell” tour and at the “Strat Pack” charity concert, for the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar, where... Read on...