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"Sunset Strip"
Single byRoger Waters
from the albumRadio K.A.O.S.
B-side	"The Tide Is Turning" "Money" (Live) "Get Back to Radio (Demo)"
Released	12 September 1987 (1987-09-12)
Recorded	1986
Studio	Billiard Room (London)
Length	4:45(Album Version) 4:06(Single Version)
Label	Columbia/CBS (US) EMI (UK)
Songwriter	Roger Waters
Producers	Roger Waters Ian Ritchie Nick Griffiths
Roger Waters singles chronology
"Radio Waves" (1987) "Sunset Strip" (1987) "The Tide Is Turning" (1987)
Alternative covers
American single cover
Music video
"Sunset Strip" onYouTube

"Sunset Strip" is a song written by the English musician and singer-songwriterRoger Waters for his second studio album,Radio K.A.O.S. (1987). It was placed as the fifth track on the record. It was also released as the album's second single, on 12 September 1987.

Billy is a young man with a disability. He uses a wheelchair and is thought to be incapable of speech. However, Billy is highly intelligent and gifted, and can hear radio waves in his head. He begins to explore thecordless telephone, recognising its similarity to aradio. He experiments with a phone which his brother, Benny, now in prison, hid in his wheelchair after burgling an electronics shop. Through it Billy is able to access computers andspeech synthesisers and learns to speak through them. He calls a radio station inLos Angeles,California, named "Radio KAOS" and tells the disc jockey (DJ) of his life story. "Sunset Strip" is about Billy's sister-in-law, Molly not being able to cope and sending him to L.A. to live with his uncle Dave. During the song Billy expresses his longing for home and the song mentions various things associated withWales, such asthe Red Dragon,male voice choirs,the land of his fathers and theBlack Fields.

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