Mason would later record new drum parts for the album's 2019 remix. Mason was also sidelined during production of the album, as he had grown so rusty from inactivity that he felt he was unable to contribute much in the way of percussion performances, hence the unusual abundance of drum machines and session drummers.Much of this is down to the fact that the majority of keyboard parts had already been recorded by the time he was brought on, leaving him with little to do aside from a small handful of tangential contributions. Wright was only hired as a session musician due to legal complications regarding his 1979 firing, providing backing vocals in "Learning to Fly", "On the Turning Away" and "Sorrow" and additional keyboards in other unspecified tracks.Demoted to Extra: Richard Wright and Nick Mason, due to extenuating circumstances that hampered their ability to contribute to the album.
Crapsack World: "Sorrow" justified in that it's directly based on The Great Depression as depicted in The Grapes of Wrath. While it uses rivers as a recurring motif in the lyrics and on the cover, and seems to focus heavily on themes related to change and renewal, it's the first and only Pink Floyd release since Obscured by Clouds that isn't an intentional concept album. In live performances, David Gilmour's guitar solo in "Learning to Fly" briefly quotes the solo in "Young Lust", as captured in Delicate Sound of Thunder and Pulse. "A New Machine" is a callback to "Welcome to the Machine" from Wish You Were Here. The intro of "One Slip" directly recalls that of "Time", albeit performed with synthesizers rather than sampled recordings of clocks. Bookends: Though the album itself doesn't have bookends, the instrumental "Terminal Frost" is surrounded by both parts of "A New Machine". The Bus Came Back: Richard Wright came back (though not as an official member, for legal reasons, until 1994) when he was rehired by Gilmour and Mason during the sessions for this album. Specifically, the word "one" appears in nearly every song, aside from the instrumentals and "A New Machine (Part 2)". Arc Words: There seems to be a theme of loneliness and isolation in the lyrics. Or was it the hand of fate, that seemed to fit just like a glove? The run ended up becoming the highest-grossing concert tour of the entire 1980s, raking in $135 million in profits and 5.5 million attendees in total. The Waters-less lineup launched Pink Floyd's first full-scale tour in a decade supporting the album, which lasted nearly two years, culminating in the band's 1990 Knebworth show. 70 on the Hot 100 and missed the UK Singles chart entirely) and introducing the band to the MTV Generation. 
"Learning to Fly" became a major hit from this album, topping the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart (though it placed at a more modest No. 3 in both the UK and the US, going on to be certified quadruple-platinum in the US, triple-platinum in Canada, double-platinum in Switzerland, platinum in Argentina, Australia, France, and Spain, and gold in the UK, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden. The album marked a commercial return to form for Pink Floyd after the relatively low sales of The Final Cut, topping the New Zealand Albums chart and peaking at No.
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