From: denisesharpe15@yahoo.com   
      
   I'm not exactly sure when I heard it on the radio, but it was something about   
   Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin paying a radio station not to play "Stairway to   
   Heaven" and that the band wouldn't be playing it anymore, something like   
   that..But whatever it    
   was that I heard, I was sitting on the sofa and jumped to my feet with my arms   
   and clenched fists in the air and yelled "YEAH". It was so cool to think that   
   they might know what was going on too and I had more support. In the photo   
   section here, I posted    
   a magazine clipping of Page and Plant and the quote at the bottom by Robert   
   Plant "Stairway to Heaven was a great piece for a period of time. But it's so   
   sanctimonious and redundant. It doesn't make any sense". I noticed right away   
   that they did not look    
   happy and their hands were clenched. I would imagine that if someone used my   
   song and lyrics to hurt someone, I'd be angry too.   
      
   On 6-6-95 Pink Floyd's PULSE was released in the US. After I purchased the CD,   
   I couldn't wait to see if there was further communication with clues in the   
   artwork. Just outside the door of the record store, I took off the wrapper. I   
   looked at the PULSE    
   cover and song listings, but there didn't seem to be anything I could   
   interpret. The songs were from the Division Bell tour, so I already knew   
   those. I knew about the LED flashing light, that they came with, but mine   
   didn't have one. I could only imagine    
   this light and I swear it emerged blinking to tell me it's alright. It was a   
   guide, like I was a ship trying to fix on a beacon.    
   When I got home, I started listening to it. Not sure what songs I listened to   
   first, but I decided to skip to the song "Breathe (In the air)" When it   
   started I knew I had to hear it clearer even with headphones, so I went to my   
   room and closed the door.    
   I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I thought to myself "that's me, that's   
   from Detroit". I was listening to myself singing "Breathe" with Gilmour. This   
   is crazy to even think about. How did they do that? I thought. They must have   
   been recording at    
   the Detroit show. I was definetly close enough to get on Gilmour's mic. I   
   don't know how they isolated the voices like that. It was incredible to hear.   
   It is incredible to know that the world is hearing my voice to this day and   
   forever, but 23 years    
   later people still don't know about me.   
      
   I haven't been able to tell this story very well, it's like many enigmas   
   rolled into one. And I know there are a lot of people who want me to get the   
   story out. But when it's as unbelievable as this, and the musicians can't say   
   anything, what are my    
   chances of being believed? But it doesn't matter, I'll keep trying to tell it.   
   Years ago I wasnt telling the entire story because I didn't want it being   
   ripped off and used by someone else and I wanted to be paid for my story. I   
   approached book    
   publishers, but since I wasn't a writer, I wasn't taken seriously. I was even   
   on live radio trying to talk about it. After it was over my girlfriend called   
   me and said I sounded weird. I'm not weird, the story is unbelievable and   
   since I'm the only one    
   who can tell it, it seems to others that it's all in my head. This whole thing   
   has been very frustrating. Just because it's about famous poeple doesn't make   
   me famous. But I'll keep trying by sending the story out. It's even harder now   
   since so much time    
   has passed. It isn't easy being rejected, when I'm trying to tell the story of   
   my heart. If I get any reply at all, it's "I'm busy right now, I'll email you   
   if I have time". I shouldn't be talking about the rejections, but I have to   
   let people know why I    
   haven't been able to get such a big story out. I guess it's just too big and   
   goes over people's heads.   
      
   I wrote about "Breathe" in the newsgroup, but the fans didn't care. They said   
   it was from the Earls Court show on October 20, 1994. And that is true, but   
   they're playing to a recording from Detroit. I know my own voice. It's   
   obviously a woman singing    
   with Gilmour and it wasn't a back up singer. And my voice sounds like it's off   
   in the distance, because it was. So it was my word against Pink Floyd and who   
   are people going to believe? Not me. So what was I suppose to do with this   
   knowledge? The    
   recording was also used at other concerts, including the 2005 Pink Floyd   
   reunion with Roger at Live 8. And I told the newsgroup how they used the   
   recording again. They used the recording a couple other times too. What was I   
   suppose to do, hold a press    
   conference? I did try telling Associated press once and they told me "lady, go   
   take your medication" How was I suppose to prove that that's my voice? I'll   
   gladly go to a recording studio to have my voice compared or take a lie   
   detector tell. But I will    
   keep trying to tell it..   
      
   It is really cool for me, though and I love that on YouTube "Pink Floyd   
   Breathe 1080p HD Pulse 1994" fans say "I think this is what you hear when you   
   go to heaven" and "This is better than the original album version" and "My   
   God, that run rabbit run line    
   sounds incredible, I love this" That line was one of my favorites. I was at   
   the Pink Floyd concerts in the 70's and I lived the spirit that goes into that   
   song. For me, it's not just singing, it's my spirit from the past that went   
   into the singing that    
   makes it special.   
      
   But, I even got laughed at in the Pink Floyd Fan mazagine called "Brain   
   Damage". I wrote to them and tried to share what I knew, but all they did was   
   make fun of me in the next edition and write about me. Trying to tell a story   
   like this right after it    
   happens, was very difficult. All these years later, it's still beyond the   
   imagination. Isn't that what Pink Floyd is all about? And don't fans know   
   David Gilmour well enough to know that this is just the thing he would do? He   
   did something this awesome    
   to help me and so that I could  share it with all the other fans.    
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