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The Rattle That Lock Tour was a concert tour by English singer and musician
David Gilmour David Jon Gilmour ( ; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in 1967, shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett. P ...
to support his fourth solo
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, ''
Rattle That Lock ''Rattle That Lock'' is the fourth solo studio album by former Pink Floyd singer and guitarist David Gilmour. It was released on 18 September 2015 via Columbia Records. The artwork for the album was created by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Cor ...
''. The tour became a commercial success, grossing $47 million and selling 288,997 tickets in 16 shows in the 2015 total. It was the 76th highest grossing of the year, according to '' Pollstar's'' annual year end tour chart. The tour covered 50 performances – 17 more than his On an Island Tour in 2006. The tour is documented on the live release ''
Live at Pompeii ''Live at Pompeii'' is a live album and film by David Gilmour, the guitarist of Pink Floyd. It was recorded at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii. It documents his 2015–16 world tour to promote his album, ''Rattle That Lock'' (2015). The concert wa ...
'' (2017).


Background

The first eight tour dates (in Europe) were announced on 4 March 2015, with two more dates added later. The concerts are spread across six European countries at nine different venues. The dates were planned to coincide with the release of Gilmour's new album. The two new dates were announced on 6 March 2015 at the
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, and were added due to high ticket demand for the three concerts already planned at the venue. On 19 June 2015, a date was announced for a show in
Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, r ...
,
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, on 25 June 2016. Four North American dates were also announced on 16 July 2015, along with more details on the new album, to be released 18 September. Four more North American dates were added on 21 July 2015, in the same venues as the first four. On 26 July 2015, a 'preview show' was added at the
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before the start of the main tour. Gilmour announced his first South American tour of five dates on 4 September 2015. Individual new dates were announced periodically until 2 February 2016, when a further 11 dates were added in Europe to take place in summer 2016. Most of the venues on the first European leg of the tour were at Roman
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s. Gilmour also played the
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as his only UK venue of the tour. He also played the historic
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in
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, having last performed there with Pink Floyd in 1972. The touring band is made up of mostly the same musicians who accompanied Gilmour on his On an Island Tour of 2006. These are
Phil Manzanera Phillip Geoffrey Targett-Adams (born 31 January 1951), known professionally as Phil Manzanera, is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music, and was the lead guitarist with 801, and Quiet Su ...
,
Guy Pratt Guy Adam Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is a British musician. He is best known for his prolific work as a session bass player, working with artists including Pink Floyd (also David Gilmour and Nick Mason), Roxy Music (also Bryan Ferry), Gary Moo ...
,
Jon Carin Jon Carin (born October 21, 1964) is a musician, singer, songwriter and producer who has been a longtime collaborator with the bands Pink Floyd and The Who, and the solo careers of David Gilmour and Roger Waters, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, ...
and
Steve DiStanislao Steve DiStanislao is an American drummer. David Gilmour DiStanislao toured and recorded with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, promoting his solo album '' On an Island''. The touring band featured Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright and occ ...
. Kevin McAlea, who performed with Carin at
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's '' Before the Dawn'' shows in 2014, also played keyboards on the tour. On 24 April 2016 Gilmour and his band played the final night of the year's
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shows. This was Gilmour's first performance since the death of
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three days earlier; as a tribute Gilmour worked a small portion of Prince's " Purple Rain" into "
Comfortably Numb "Comfortably Numb" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd from their eleventh album, ''The Wall'' (1979). It was released as a single in 1980, with " Hey You" as the B-side. The music was composed by guitarist David Gilmour. The lyrics were ...
", immediately before the closing guitar solo; the stage lights all turned purple during the snippet. This brought the third leg of the tour to a close before new band members were drafted in. When the third leg of the tour ended Gilmour's online outlets announced that Manzanera, Carin and McAlea would all be leaving the tour. Manzanera left due to obligations to recording a new solo album; Carin, to tour with
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in Mexico & Desert Trip. Shortly before the fourth leg Gilmour announced the new musicians for the European tour, they are
Chester Kamen Chester Kamen (born in Hackney, London) is an English session guitarist, whose work has included performing with Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bob Geldof, Madonna, Duran Duran, Robbie Williams, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Seal, Massive Attack, Ki ...
on guitar, whom Gilmour performed with as part of
Bryan Ferry Bryan Ferry CBE (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer and songwriter. His voice has been described as an "elegant, seductive croon". He also established a distinctive image and sartorial style: according to ''The Independent'', Ferry an ...
's band for
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in 1985, replacing Manzanera;
Greg Phillinganes Gregory Arthur Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed the role of keyboards to numerous alb ...
on keyboards and vocals, replacing Carin; and
Chuck Leavell Charles Alfred Leavell (born April 28, 1952) is an American musician. A member of the Allman Brothers Band throughout their commercial zenith in the 1970s, he subsequently became a founding member of the band Sea Level. He has served as the pri ...
on organ, vocals and accordion, long time member of
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' touring band and ex-member of
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, replacing McAlea. The new band rehearsed songs not performed previously on the tour, "Dancing Right In Front of Me" and " One of These Days". "One of These Days" hadn't been performed since the last Pink Floyd tour in 1994. Both songs were debuted on the tour during Gilmour's show at
Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, r ...
,
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
where they replaced "
Fat Old Sun "Fat Old Sun" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd, written and sung by David Gilmour. It appears on their 1970 album ''Atom Heart Mother'', and was performed live in a greatly expanded form (often exceeding fourteen minutes), both before an ...
" and "
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", respectively. On 25 June 2016 Gilmour performed at Wrocław, Poland in celebration of the city being European Capital of Culture 2016. The show saw the live debut of the song "Dancing Right In Front of Me" and the resurrection of "One of These Days", last performed in 1994. The show was broadcast live on Polish television. Gilmour and his band were accompanied by the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Zbigniew Preisner Zbigniew Preisner (; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as we ...
, who contributed orchestrations to Gilmour's ''
Rattle That Lock ''Rattle That Lock'' is the fourth solo studio album by former Pink Floyd singer and guitarist David Gilmour. It was released on 18 September 2015 via Columbia Records. The artwork for the album was created by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Cor ...
'' and ''
On An Island ''On an Island'' is the third solo studio album by Pink Floyd member David Gilmour. It was released in the UK on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the US the following day. It was his first solo album in 22 years since '' Abou ...
'' albums. The orchestra performed on the tracks "5 A.M."; "Rattle That Lock"; "Faces of Stone"; "A Boat Lies Waiting"; "The Blue"; "In Any Tongue" (with cello solo); "High Hopes"; "Dancing Right In Front of Me"; "On an Island"; "The Girl in The Yellow Dress"; "Today" and "Comfortably Numb". On 7 and 8 July 2016 Gilmour performed two shows at the
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where he performed with Pink Floyd in 1971, and filmed '' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii''. The performance on the 7 July was the first performance in the amphitheatre since Pink Floyd played there and the first public performance there since
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, when
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erupted, destroying Pompeii. Gilmour's wife,
Polly Samson Polly Samson (born 29 April 1962) is an English novelist, lyricist, and journalist. She is married to the musician David Gilmour and has written the lyrics to many of Gilmour's works, both as a solo artist and with the group Pink Floyd. Life an ...
regularly tweeted about the event using the
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#ReturnToPompeii. Gilmour performed "One of These Days" on both nights – the only song from the set to have been performed by Pink Floyd there in 1971. Gilmour also dropped "Us and Them" from the set and replaced it with "
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" but played earlier in the set (see the setlist details below). The shows were filmed for possible future release. On 31 May 2017, it was announced that Gilmour's new film—''David Gilmour Live At Pompeii''—should hit select cinemas for one night only on 13 September 2017. On 16 July, Gilmour performed at Château de Chantilly, in France. He started the show by asking for a minute of silence to pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack that happened two days before in Nice. He did the same for the shows at the Arena of Nîmes on 20 and 21 July.The 23 July he perform at Saline Royale d Arc et Senans. Unlike the On an Island Tour of 2006 where Gilmour performed the whole of his then-new album in its entirety, the ''Rattle That Lock'' tour saw no performances of "Beauty" or "And Then..." and only saw two performances of "Dancing Right In Front of Me".


Setlists

Set lists for individual shows are available online.


Legs 1–3

Set One: # "5 A.M." # "Rattle That Lock" # "Faces of Stone" # "
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" # " What Do You Want From Me" (added from 25 March 2016 onward) # "A Boat Lies Waiting" # "The Blue" # "
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" # "In Any Tongue" # " High Hopes" Encore: # "
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" # "
Comfortably Numb "Comfortably Numb" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd from their eleventh album, ''The Wall'' (1979). It was released as a single in 1980, with " Hey You" as the B-side. The music was composed by guitarist David Gilmour. The lyrics were ...
" (On 24 April 2016 contained an excerpt of " Purple Rain" following the death of
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.)
Set Two: # "
Astronomy Domine "Astronomy Domine" (alternative "Astronomy Dominé") is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. The song, written and composed by the original vocalist/guitarist Syd Barrett, is the opening track on their debut album, ''The Piper at the Ga ...
" # " Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-II, IV-V)" # "
Fat Old Sun "Fat Old Sun" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd, written and sung by David Gilmour. It appears on their 1970 album ''Atom Heart Mother'', and was performed live in a greatly expanded form (often exceeding fourteen minutes), both before an ...
" # "
Coming Back to Life "Coming Back to Life" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album ''The Division Bell'', and is the only track from the album to be credited solely to David Gilmour. Composition Gilmour has said (as can be heard on the ''David Gilmour in Concert'' DVD ...
" (performed from 15–19 September and 2 October, permanently added from 14 December) # "On an Island" (dropped during 14–18 December 2015 and from 25 March – 6 April 2016 and 11–12 April) # "The Girl In the Yellow Dress" (dropped on 10 April) # "Today" # " Sorrow" # "
Run Like Hell "Run Like Hell" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. It appears on the album '' The Wall''. It was released as a single in 1980, reaching #15 in the Canadian singles chart as well as ...
"


Legs 4–5

Shows during Leg 4 are one of the two following sets (A or B): Set One, Set A: # "5 A.M." # "Rattle That Lock" # "Faces of Stone" # "What Do You Want From Me" # "Wish You Were Here" # "A Boat Lies Waiting" # "The Blue" # "Money" # "Us and Them" # "In Any Tongue" # "High Hopes" Set One, Set B: – Set B was introduced at the first Pompeii show on 7 July 2016. # "5 A.M." # "Rattle That Lock" # "Faces of Stone" # "What Do You Want From Me" # "The Blue" # "
The Great Gig in the Sky "The Great Gig in the Sky" is the fifth track on '' The Dark Side of the Moon'', the 1973 album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. The song features music by Richard Wright and non-lexical vocals by Clare Torry, being one of only ...
" # "A Boat Lies Waiting" # "Wish You Were Here" # "Money" # "In Any Tongue" # "High Hopes" Set Two, Set A or B: # "Astronomy Domine" (dropped between 3–10 July 2016; 14–28 July 2016 and 23–30 September 2016)
" One of These Days" (replaced "Astronomy Domine" between 3–10 July 2016; 14–28 July 2016 and 23–30 September 2016) # "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-II, IV-V)" # "Fat Old Sun" (dropped on 25 June 2016)
"Dancing Right in Front of Me" (replaced "Fat Old Sun" on 25 June 2016, played additionally 28 July 2016) # "Coming Back to Life" # "On an Island" # "The Girl In the Yellow Dress" (dropped on 25, 28 & 29 September 2016)
"Us and Them" (replaced "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" on 25, 28 & 29 September 2016) # "Today" # "Sorrow" # "Run Like Hell" Encore: # "Time / Breathe (Reprise)" # "Comfortably Numb" The setlist for Set Two does not change between Sets A and B.


Tour band


Legs 1–3

Main band *
David Gilmour David Jon Gilmour ( ; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in 1967, shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett. P ...
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s,
acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...
s,
classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...
,
console steel guitar The console steel guitar is any type of electric steel guitar that is built in a frame supported by legs. It may be a lap steel or a pedal steel. Console steel guitars are typically heavier instruments that have multiple necks and/or more than six ...
,
lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...
,
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on "In Any Tongue" *
Phil Manzanera Phillip Geoffrey Targett-Adams (born 31 January 1951), known professionally as Phil Manzanera, is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music, and was the lead guitarist with 801, and Quiet Su ...
– electric guitars, acoustic guitars, 12-string acoustic guitar, backing vocals *
Guy Pratt Guy Adam Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is a British musician. He is best known for his prolific work as a session bass player, working with artists including Pink Floyd (also David Gilmour and Nick Mason), Roxy Music (also Bryan Ferry), Gary Moo ...
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s,
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, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Run Like Hell" *
Jon Carin Jon Carin (born October 21, 1964) is a musician, singer, songwriter and producer who has been a longtime collaborator with the bands Pink Floyd and The Who, and the solo careers of David Gilmour and Roger Waters, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, ...
– piano, keyboards, electric guitars,
lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional a ...
s, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Time" and "Comfortably Numb" *
Kevin McAlea Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an ...
– piano, keyboards,
accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a ree ...
*
Steve DiStanislao Steve DiStanislao is an American drummer. David Gilmour DiStanislao toured and recorded with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, promoting his solo album '' On an Island''. The touring band featured Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright and occ ...
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,
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
, backing vocals *
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(5 September – 19 September) *João Mello – saxophones, additional keyboards on "The Blue", high-strung acoustic guitar on "In Any Tongue" (23 September onwards) *Bryan Chambers – backing vocals, additional percussion, lead vocals on "In Any Tongue" *Louise Clare Marshall – backing vocals, additional percussion (except South America) *Lucita Jules – backing vocals (South America and North America only) ;Special guests *
David Crosby David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of both the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Crosby joined the Byrds in 1964. They got ...
– harmony vocals on "A Boat Lies Waiting" and "On an Island"; lead and backing vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (23 September, Royal Albert Hall) *
Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and activist. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and the supergroups Crosby, Stills ...
– harmony vocals on "A Boat Lies Waiting" and "On an Island"; backing vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (23 September, Royal Albert Hall) *Gabriel Gilmour – piano on "In Any Tongue" (25 September, Royal Albert Hall)


Legs 4–5

Main band *David Gilmour – electric guitars, acoustic guitars, classical guitar, console steel guitar, lead vocals,
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on "One of These Days", whistling on "In Any Tongue" *
Chester Kamen Chester Kamen (born in Hackney, London) is an English session guitarist, whose work has included performing with Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bob Geldof, Madonna, Duran Duran, Robbie Williams, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Seal, Massive Attack, Ki ...
– electric guitars, acoustic guitars, 12-string acoustic guitar, backing vocals, harmonica on "The Blue" *Guy Pratt – bass guitars, double bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Run Like Hell" *
Greg Phillinganes Gregory Arthur Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed the role of keyboards to numerous alb ...
– keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Time" *
Chuck Leavell Charles Alfred Leavell (born April 28, 1952) is an American musician. A member of the Allman Brothers Band throughout their commercial zenith in the 1970s, he subsequently became a founding member of the band Sea Level. He has served as the pri ...
– keyboards, accordion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 4 only) *Kevin McAlea – keyboards, accordion (Leg 5 only) *Steve DiStanislao – drums, percussion, backing vocals, aeoliphone on "One of These Days" *João Mello – saxophones, clarinet, additional keyboards on "The Blue", high-strung acoustic guitar on "In Any Tongue" *Bryan Chambers – backing vocals, additional percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky", "In Any Tongue" and "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 5) *Lucita Jules – backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 5) *Louise Clare Marshall – backing vocals, additional percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 5) (certain dates) ;Special guests *
Leszek Możdżer Leszek Możdżer (Polish pronunciation: born Lesław Henryk Możdżer, 23 March 1971, Gdańsk) is a Polish jazz pianist, music producer and film score composer. Life and career Możdżer was born on 23 March 1971 in Gdańsk. He began to play t ...
– piano on "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" (Wrocław, 25 June 2016) *Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Zbigniew Preisner Zbigniew Preisner (; born 20 May 1955 as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis as we ...
(Wrocław, 25 June 2016) *
Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Oli ...
– lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (London, 28 September 2016)


Tour dates


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References


External links

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