Clare Torry went into the studio without any direction. The entire thing was improvised on the spot and apparently when she finished recording the vocals she was very embarrassed with her performance, but the guys thought she was fantastic and of course mixed her into the master tapes and Rick's amazing piano work on the song.

I first listened to DSotM in its entirety when I was about eleven or twelve. I thought it was an amazing sound, but as I ventured forward into other progressive musical styles I found Wish You Were Here to be a more complete album, not only conceptually, but also musically. Not to detract anything from Dark Side, but The Floyd's sound would continue to grow from there and ultimately culminate with The Wall. WYWH was the pinnacle of that musical journey.