The Bleeding Heart Band was the name Roger Waters gave his backing band for a brief period of his post- Pink Floyd solo career. Although Waters released ''

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'' in 1984, and toured as a solo artist promoting that album (with an ''unnamed'' supporting band), he was still a member of Pink Floyd, and did not leave the group until late 1985. The name of the band most likely comes from the phrase "the bleeding hearts and artists" found on the tracks "The Trial" and "Outside the Wall" on Pink Floyd's 1979 double album ''

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'' (an album which Waters was heavily involved in). His first music as an ex-member of Pink Floyd was several contributions to the soundtrack to '' When the Wind Blows''. It was for this soundtrack album that the band moniker "The Bleeding Heart Band" first appeared.

Personnel

The original personnel, from the soundtrack to ''When the Wind Blows'': * Roger Waters: bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals *

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: guitar *

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: guitar *John Gordon: bass guitar *

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: keyboards, organ *

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: piano, organ *John Linwood: Linn programming *Freddie Krc: drums, percussion *

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: saxophone *

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: vocals * Paul Carrack: keyboards, vocals The band's membership would change variously as Waters went on to record the '' Radio K.A.O.S.'' album, and then mount the tour. * Roger Waters - vocals, bass guitar and acoustic guitar *

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- guitar, bass guitar and backing vocals *Jay Stapley - lead guitar and backing vocals * Paul Carrack - keyboards and vocals *

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- drums and percussion *

- saxophone * Doreen Chanter - backing vocals *

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- backing vocals *

- lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" on just two shows of the tour

''The Wall'', Berlin 1990

When ''

'' was performed in

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in 1990 to raise money for the charity Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, the show featured an enormous number of

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, as well as Roger Waters and The Bleeding Heart Band, which acted as the house band for the evening, and provided the music for the extra vocalists. The Bleeding Heart Band also had a few extra members, such as Rick DiFonzo on guitar, and Peter Wood (reprising his role from the original Pink Floyd live performances of The Wall) on keyboards. Also present was the vocal quartet of

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, Jim Farber,

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, and John Joyce, reprising their role from the studio album and the Pink Floyd ''Wall'' performances. Whether the four were considered official members of The Bleeding Heart Band is unknown.
Rick Di Fonzo
– guitars *

– guitars *

– bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals * Peter Wood – keyboards, organ, synthesizers *

– keyboards, organ, synthesizers *

– drums, electronic percussion
Stan Farber
– backing vocals, percussion (credited as Jim Farber) *

– backing vocals *

– backing vocals, percussion
Jon Joyce
– backing vocals

Later years

For several years following his 1999–2002 ''

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'' tour, Roger Waters did not use the Bleeding Heart Band name, even though several of the members (such as Broad, Fairweather-Low, and backing vocalist Katie Kissoon) had long been part of his band. For his

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tour (2010–2013), Waters introduced them as the Bleeding Heart Band once again. The Wall Tour 2010-13 Band * Roger Waters – bass, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, trumpet on "Outside the Wall" * G. E. Smith – guitars, bass, mandolin on "Outside the Wall" * Dave Kilminster – guitars, banjo on "Outside the Wall", bass on "Mother" *

– guitars, bass on "Goodbye Blue Sky" *

– drums, percussion, ukulele on "Outside the Wall" *

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– keyboards, lap steel guitar, programming, high-strung guitar on "Comfortably Numb", acoustic guitar on "Outside The Wall", electric guitar on "Run Like Hell", "Bring The Boys Back Home", "Comfortably Numb" and "Brick 3" * Harry Waters – Hammond organ, keyboards, accordion on "Outside the Wall"
Robbie Wyckoff
– lead vocals (songs or parts of songs originally sung by David Gilmour), backing vocals, percussion
Jon Joyce
– backing vocals, percussion * Kipp Lennon – backing vocals, percussion * Mark Lennon – backing vocals, percussion * Pat Lennon – backing vocals, percussion

References

External links

The Wall Live in BerlinTrivia from IMDB
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bleeding Heart Band, The British rock music groups Roger Waters