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Fair use rationale for Image:The Nile Song.ogg

Image:The Nile Song.ogg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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Rick plays on this song?

Any verification about Rick playing on this song? I don't recall hearing any backing vocals, and definately not any handclapping in this kind of song.

--Rock Soldier (talk) 00:01, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps Rick is the one yelling and clapping the beginning of the song? Wasakithis 00:29, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I figure Rick played the cigarette on this one. He always was, and remains, Pink Floyd's laziest member. After all, that is what they eventually fired him for. --63.25.107.233 (talk) 04:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Damn. Ouch. I think that was me. He WAS still alive at that point, though, wasn't he?

--Ben Culture (talk) 10:39, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The key changes.

Just to clear up any confusion, here is exactly what the chord changes are:

(intro)
1. A | G | A | G | A | G | F# | ||
("I was standing by the Nile . . . ")
2. B | A | B | A | B | A | G# | ||
("Light tears wept like a child . . . ")
3. C# | B | C# | B | C# | B | Bb | ||
("Soaring high above the breezes . . . ")
4. Eb | Db | Eb | Db | Eb | Db | C | ||
("I will follow in her shadow . . . ")
5. F | Eb | F | Eb | F | Eb | D | ||
(solo starts)
6. G | F | G | F | G | F | E | ||
(solo continues)
7. See #1
("She is calling from the deep . . . ")
8. See #2
9. See #3
ETC.

The previous description of the song's key changes was incorrect; someone had written that the song cycles through ELEVEN (?!?) different keys, and ends on G#. Since the key is always rising a whole step with each change, it's impossible to get to the key of G# (Assuming, of course, that when we say "the key of A", we are referring to a section that starts on A.) It only cycles through six keys and repeats the process. I rewrote this section to make it accurate, but I can't say I wrote it particularly well. --63.25.103.144 (talk) 07:13, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This, too, was me. I haven't looked to see what I originally wrote in the article, but I have to say, the current wording -- "The chord progression gives a strain of modulations ..." -- seems a little off. I mean, "... gives a strain of ..."? I don't get it.
--Ben Culture (talk) 10:45, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]