Coming from a well-to-do background, Clare Torry attended Battle Abbey School in East Sussex, where she found it hard to cope with the school's conservative and strict code, making it difficult for the teachers to support her singing and songwriting skills. By the end of the sixties, she managed to start a career as a performer, mainly based on covers of popular songs. Alan Parsons asked her to take part in Pink Floyd's recording of the album The Dark Side of the Moon, on the instrumental song penned by Richard Wright going under the name of "The Great Gig in the Sky".

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