Trivia

Clare Torry was only told that her improvised vocal performance on "The Great Gig in the Sky" for Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), should not contain any words, should involve wailing, and should be alternately loud and soft. Her musical cues were chord progressions without any melody. She worked for three hours on three takes, quitting in the middle of the third take. She was annoyed that they didn't give her any feedback, positive or negative, and figured they wouldn't use her work. She was paid £30, equivalent to £350 now, or $450.

In 2012, Clare Torry's three-and-a-half minute vocal performance on "The Great Gig in the Sky" for Pink Floyd's album, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), was voted by readers of Rolling Stone magazine to be the second greatest rock vocal performance of all time, after Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".

In 2005, Clare Torry won a legal settlement that awarded credit as co-author of the composition "The Great Gig in the Sky".