set a deadline of April 1994

Contractually, Wright was not a member of the band, and said he almost did not work on the album. However, he earned five co-writing credits, his first on a Pink Floyd album since 1975’s Wish You Were Here . Gilmour’s future wife, the novelist Polly Samson , is also credited; she helped Gilmour write songs including ” High Hopes “, a collaborative arrangement which, though initially tense, “pulled the whole album together”, according to Ezrin. They hired Michael Kamen to arrange the orchestral parts; Dick Parry and Chris Thomas also returned. The writer Douglas Adams provided the album title and Thorgerson the cover artwork. Thorgerson drew inspiration from the Moai monoliths of Easter Island ; two opposing faces forming an implied third face about which he commented: “the absent face—the ghost of Pink Floyd’s past, Syd and Roger”. To avoid competing against other album releases, as had happened with A Momentary Lapse , Pink Floyd set a deadline of April 1994, at which point they would resume touring. The Division Bell reached number 1 in the UK and the US, and spent 51 weeks on the UK chart.