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Written byDavid Gilmour,Richard Wright andPolly Samson, it is sung by Gilmour and also features samples ofStephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from aBT television advertisement.^[2] This same commercial was sampled again in "Talkin' Hawkin'" from Pink Floyd's final studio album,The Endless River.^[3] Gilmour chose to use the speech after nearly crying to the commercial, which he described as "the most powerful piece of television advertising that I've ever seen in my life."^[4] The song also makes use of thetalk box guitar effect.

Release

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The song was the first to be sent to radio stations from the album in the United States in March 1994. It was the group's third #1 hit on theAlbum Rock Tracks chart (a chart published byBillboard magazine which measures radio play in the United States, and is not a measure of record sales), staying atop for six weeks.

The song was included on the 2001 compilation,Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.^[5]

Live

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The song was performed every night during the 1994The Division Bell Tour and live versions, taken from different shows, were included in both the albumPulse and thevideo of the same name.

The song was sampled byWiz Khalifa on the title track of his 2009 mixtapeBurn After Rolling.

Quotes

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[Interviewer:] Several songs on the album, like "Keep Talking" suggest that all problems can be solved through discussion. Do you believe that?
[Gilmour:] It's more of a wish than a belief. [laughs]

— David Gilmour, 1994^[6]

Well, I guess I experiment more than I think I do. I had a Zoom [effects box] in my control room one day and I was mucking about with something. Suddenly, I thought I should stick the E-bow on the strings and see what would happen. It sounded great, so we started writing a little duet for the E-bowed acoustic guitar [a Gibson J-200] and a keyboard. We never finished the piece, but Jon Carin [keyboardist] decided to sample the E-bowed guitar part. We kept the sample and ended up using it as a loop on "Take It Back", and again on "Keep Talking".

— David Gilmour, 1994^[6]

Personnel

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Pink Floyd

David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar,talk box,EBow
Richard Wright –Hammond organ,synthesizer
Nick Mason – drums,percussion

Additional musicians

Gary Wallis –programming
Jon Carin – programming, additionalkeyboards
Guy Pratt – bass guitar
Sam Brown – backing vocals
Durga McBroom – backing vocals
Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
Jackie Sheridan – backing vocals
Rebecca Leigh-White – backing vocals
Stephen Hawking – computer voice, sampled

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1994)	Peak position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)^[7]	8
Europe (European Hit Radio)^[8]	32
UK Singles (OCC)^[9]	26
USAlbum Rock Tracks (Billboard)^[10]	1

Year-end charts

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Chart (1994)	Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)^[11]	64

Release history

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Region	Date	Format	Label	Catalog no.
United States^[12]	12 March 1994	CD-R(Modern rock/Alternative radio)	Columbia Records	CSK 6228
United Kingdom^[13]	28 March 1994	CD-R(Contemporary hit radio,BBC Radio 1 rotation)	EMI	PINK 1
United Kingdom^[13]	10 October 1994^[14]	CD-R(Contemporary hit radio,BBC Radio 1 rotation)	EMI	CDEMDJ 342

References

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^"New Releases: Singles".Music Week. 8 October 1994. p. 37.
^"Pink Floyd's 'Keep Talking' - Discover the Sample Source".WhoSampled.Archived from the original on 8 June 2020.
^(liner notes fromEchoes)
^Michaels, Sean (2014-10-08)."Stephen Hawking sampled on Pink Floyd's The Endless River".The Guardian.Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved2015-02-17.
^"Echoes: the album credits". Pink Floyd. Archived fromthe original on 2 June 2010. Retrieved20 June 2013.
^^a ^b"Sounds of Silence" interview,Guitar World, September 1994, retrieved 28 July 2010
^"Archived copy". Archived fromthe original on 2017-12-07. Retrieved2017-12-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^"EHR Top 40"(PDF).Music & Media. Vol. 11, no. 20. 14 May 1994. p. 25. Retrieved8 January 2026.
^"Official Singles Chart on 23/10/1994 – Top 100".Official Charts Company.
^"Artist Chart History (Singles) – Pink Floyd".Allmusic. Retrieved26 July 2007.
^"RPM 100 Hit Tracks of 1994".RPM. RetrievedNovember 23, 2017.
^"US CD Singles". Pink Floyd Discography Archive. Retrieved31 May 2013.
^"Pink Floyd". VintageCD. Archived fromthe original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved2 June 2013.
^"New Releases: Singles".Music Week. 8 October 1994. p. 37.

v t e The Division Bell
Songs	"Cluster One" "What Do You Want from Me" "Poles Apart" "Marooned" "A Great Day for Freedom" "Wearing the Inside Out" "Take It Back" "Coming Back to Life" "Keep Talking" "Lost for Words" "High Hopes"
Related articles	The Division Bell Tour Publius Enigma The Later Years 1987–2019
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn A Saucerful of Secrets More Ummagumma Atom Heart Mother Meddle Obscured by Clouds The Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here Animals The Wall The Final Cut A Momentary Lapse of Reason The Division Bell The Endless River

v t e Pink Floyd songs
Discography Songs
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	"Astronomy Domine" "Lucifer Sam" "Matilda Mother" "Flaming" "Pow R. Toc H." "Interstellar Overdrive" "The Gnome" "Chapter 24" "The Scarecrow" "Bike" "See Emily Play" (U.S.)
A Saucerful of Secrets	"Let There Be More Light" "Remember a Day" "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" "Corporal Clegg" "A Saucerful of Secrets" "See-Saw" "Jugband Blues"
More	"Cirrus Minor" "The Nile Song" "Green Is the Colour" "Cymbaline"
Ummagumma	"Grantchester Meadows" "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" "The Narrow Way"
Atom Heart Mother	"Atom Heart Mother" "If" "Summer '68" "Fat Old Sun" "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"
Meddle	"One of These Days" "A Pillow of Winds" "Fearless" "San Tropez" "Seamus" "Echoes"
Obscured by Clouds	"Burning Bridges" "Wot's... Uh the Deal?" "Childhood's End" "Free Four"
The Dark Side of the Moon	"Speak to Me" "Breathe (In the Air)" "On the Run" "Time" "The Great Gig in the Sky" "Money" "Us and Them" "Any Colour You Like" "Brain Damage" "Eclipse"
Wish You Were Here	"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" "Welcome to the Machine" "Have a Cigar" "Wish You Were Here"
Animals	"Pigs on the Wing (Part One)" "Dogs" "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" "Sheep"
The Wall	"In the Flesh?/In the Flesh" "The Thin Ice" "Another Brick in the Wall" "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" "Mother" "Goodbye Blue Sky" "Empty Spaces" "Young Lust" "One of My Turns" "Don't Leave Me Now" "Hey You" "Is There Anybody Out There?" "Nobody Home" "Vera" "Bring the Boys Back Home" "Comfortably Numb" "The Show Must Go On" "Run Like Hell" "Waiting for the Worms" "Stop" "The Trial" "Outside the Wall"
The Final Cut	"The Post War Dream" "Your Possible Pasts" "One of the Few" "The Hero's Return" "The Gunner's Dream" "Paranoid Eyes" "The Fletcher Memorial Home" "Southampton Dock" "The Final Cut" "Not Now John" "Two Suns in the Sunset"
A Momentary Lapse of Reason	"Signs of Life" "Learning to Fly" "The Dogs of War" "One Slip" "On the Turning Away" "Yet Another Movie" "Round and Around" "A New Machine" "Terminal Frost" "Sorrow"
The Division Bell	"Cluster One" "What Do You Want from Me" "Poles Apart" "Marooned" "A Great Day for Freedom" "Wearing the Inside Out" "Take It Back" "Coming Back to Life" "Keep Talking" "Lost for Words" "High Hopes"
The Endless River	"Louder than Words"
Other songs	"Arnold Layne" / "Candy and a Currant Bun" "See Emily Play" "Apple and Oranges" / "Paint Box" "It Would Be So Nice" / "Julia Dream" "Point Me at the Sky" / "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" "Embryo" "When the Tigers Broke Free" "The Last Few Bricks" "Lucy Leave" "I'm a King Bee" "Vegetable Man" "Scream Thy Last Scream" "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!"

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