Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd | Artist Essentials
First released: 1979 (year verified)
Original 1979 The Wall album version
MusicAtlas editorial note: Listen to the contrast between the contained verses and the expanding guitar-led passages.
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First released: 1979 (year verified)
The selected original recording appears on The Wall (1979). The original release year is retained; later remasters, bonus performances and annual-list dates are separate.
Recording: Original 1979 The Wall album version
Credit: Pink Floyd
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: The Wall
The Wall - Pink Floyd official studio-album archive
The The Wall section explicitly gives its original 1979 release year and original tracklist. Other albums, US tracklist differences and identified live or alternate recordings appear in separate sections. This is the original studio album scope, not a later compilation or remix date. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
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The selected recording has release evidence, but its version has not been matched to the retained annual entry. It is omitted from Beyond the yearly lists until this match is resolved.
Selects the original full The Wall album edition. The official catalog documents its 1979 album appearance and a later 1980 single, while the retained annual entry supplies no edition identification. Retain the actual annual candidate provisionally until its album/single scope is reviewed; the release year itself is verified.
The Wall - official album history
Original November 1979 album release and tracks including Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, Mother, Hey You and Comfortably Numb. Separates the album from later concert and film presentations. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
Pink Floyd - official singles archive
Pink Floyd group section: Arnold Layne and See Emily Play in 1967; Money in 1973; Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 in 1979; Comfortably Numb / Hey You single in 1980; Learning to Fly edits in 1987; High Hopes album and radio editions in 1994. Later member-solo credits are separately headed and are not Pink Floyd aliases. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
About Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd developed from Syd Barrett's psychedelic singles into extended studio pieces and albums built around connected themes. Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason shaped the later catalog, which explored social pressures as well as personal experience. The Dark Side of the Moon appeared in 1973, followed by Wish You Were Here in 1975 and The Wall in 1979. The group's official discography also separates later studio albums, live performances and remixes from those original recordings.
Artist background sources
Pink Floyd - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Background on the move from Syd Barrett-era psychedelic singles to extended and concept-album work with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason; social and personal themes. The page's confusing Relics song-date label is not used for release chronology. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
The Dark Side of the Moon - official album history
Original March 1973 album release, tracklist and development from earlier live performances. The earlier live work is not the selected finished studio recording. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Wish You Were Here - official album history
Original September 1975 album release; Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 and Parts 6-9 are distinct album tracks. Also establishes Have a Cigar and the title track in this original album. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
The Wall - official album history
Original November 1979 album release and tracks including Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, Mother, Hey You and Comfortably Numb. Separates the album from later concert and film presentations. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Pink Floyd - official compilation archive
Explicitly labels Money on the 1981 A Collection of Great Dance Songs as a re-recorded version, separate from the 1973 Dark Side of the Moon recording. Relics is dated 1971; its date is not used for the original 1967 singles. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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