title: Keep Talking (Pink Floyd song)
text: "Keep Talking" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell.
  
  Recording
  Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it was sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement. This same commercial was sampled again in "Talkin' Hawkin'" from Pink Floyd's next studio album, The Endless River.  Gilmour chose to use the speech after crying to the commercial, which he described as "the most powerful piece of television advertising that I’ve ever seen in my life.” The song also makes some use of the talk box guitar effect.
  
  Release
  The song was the first single to be released from the album in the United States in March 1994. It was the group's third #1 hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart (a chart published by Billboard magazine which measures radio play in the United States, and is not a measure of record sales), staying atop for six weeks.
  
  The song was included on the 2001 compilation, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.
  
  Live
  The song was performed every night during the 1994 The Division Bell Tour and live versions, taken from different shows, were included in both the album Pulse and the video of the same name.
  
  The song was sampled by Wiz Khalifa on the title track of his 2009 mixtape Burn After Rolling.
  
  Quotes
  
  Personnel
  
  Pink Floyd
  David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar, talk box, EBow
  Richard Wright – Hammond organ, synthesizer
  Nick Mason – drums, percussion
  
  Additional musicians
  Gary Wallis – programming
  Jon Carin – programming, additional keyboards
  Guy Pratt – bass guitar
  Sam Brown – backing vocals
  Durga McBroom – backing vocals
  Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
  Jackie Sheridan – backing vocals
  Rebecca Leigh-White – backing vocals
  Stephen Hawking – computer voice, sampled
  
  Charts
  
  Weekly charts
  
  Year-end charts
  
  Release history
  
  References
  
  1994 songs
  Columbia Records singles
  EMI Records singles
  Pink Floyd songs
  Stephen Hawking
  Songs written by David Gilmour
  Songs written by Richard Wright (musician)
  Songs with lyrics by Polly Samson
  Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
  Song recordings produced by David Gilmour