Chapter 5
MEDDLE
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or all of it’s supposed faults Atom Heart Mother had finally produced the breakthrough that had been threatened for so long. The task now was to consolidate their new found position as commercial and artistic heavy weights. As well as their status, the word heavy could equally be applied to Roger Water’s state of mind. Long before the angst-ridden albums that appeared later in the decade, Waters gave a glimpse of the factors that came to characterise the man as an artist in a 9 October 1971 Melody Maker interview. ‘I work to keep my mind off a doomy situation. All over the globe, it gets crazier every day. And the craziness seems to be accelerating at a fantastic rate. But it might just be 57
