One of My Turns

This is part of Pink Floyd's grandiose concept album The Wall, which tells the story of a rock star named Pink who eventually becomes a cult-like leader. In the song, he invites a groupie into his room but is consumed in a fit of madness - one of his "turns" of personality. The album is the creation of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and is in some ways an amplified version of his own story. That's Waters on lead vocals.

The song is very disjointed, reflecting Pink's state of mind. It opens with dialogue where we hear the groupie, played by Trudy Young, buttering up Pink, telling him how impressed she is with his digs. But Pink turns melancholy as soft keyboards play. Then the full instrumentation hits as he loses it, frightening the girl.

The Wall's producer, Bob Ezrin, thought of the album as a theatrical experience, and he cites this song as an example of that vision. He told Rolling Stone: "My vision for it was informed by the LP of the 1966 film A Man For All Seasons - all the dialogue, music and sound effects. I used to put it on and close my eyes - it was an eyelid movie."