- 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.
- 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".
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