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3 unusual facts about Welcome to the Machine


Welcome to the Machine

Despite being pulled at by the bloody masses, it survives and, synchronising with the sound effects at the end of the track, flies up and away, high above the clouds to where it fits snugly into a hole inside a gargantuan floating ovoid structure.

Gerald Scarfe created a music video, initially a backdrop film for when the band played the track on its 1977 In the Flesh tour.

Tim Footman used the title for his book, Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album (2007, ISBN 1-84240-388-5).



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