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}} "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It appeared on their second album, ''A Saucerful of Secrets'' (1968). It was written by Roger Waters〔 and features a drum part by Nick Mason played with timpani mallets. The track was planned for release as a single, with "Scream Thy Last Scream", on 8 September, before it was vetoed by the band's record company, EMI. The song was regularly performed between 1967 and 1973〔 and can be heard on the live disc of the 1969 album ''Ummagumma''〔 and seen in the 1972 movie ''Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii''.〔 It also appears on the 2001 compilation album ''Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd''. It is the only song recorded by Pink Floyd to feature material from all five band members, as there are several different guitar parts recorded by both David Gilmour and Syd Barrett. ==Lyrics and music== According to an interview with Gilmour on the 2006 documentary ''Which One's Pink?'', the studio version of the song contained minor guitar work both from Gilmour and Barrett, making "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" the only Pink Floyd song that features all five band members, though some listeners may not fully discern the guitar tracks as Richard Wright's keyboards and organs overlap the guitars. The song's recording commenced in August 1967, with overdubs recorded in October of that year and in January 1968. In an article reprinted in the Bruno McDonald book ''Pink Floyd – Through the Eyes of ...'', Waters admitted to "borrowing" the lyrics from a book of Chinese poetry from the Tang Dynasty period (which was later identified as the book ''Poems of the late T'ang'', translated by A.C. Graham).〔(Allusions to Classical Chinese poetry in Pink Floyd )〕 Among the borrowed lines from Chinese poetry (as translated by Graham) were those written by Li He, whose poem "Don't Go Out of the Door" contains the line "Witness the man who raved at the wall as he wrote his ''questions to Heaven''", and Li Shangyin, whose poetry contained the lines, "watch little by little the night turns around", "countless the twigs which tremble in dawn" and "one inch of love is one inch of ashes." Mason later stated in a 2015 interview that "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is his favorite Pink Floyd song. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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