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Pink Floyd's Young Lust telephone signalling explained
This is United States calling…are we reaching… <beeep> Overview Album cover for Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1979) Pink Floyd’s Young Lust has been a staple of rock radio for over 40 years. But many people are mystified about the section at the end when a “Mr.
The telephone network at that time used multi-frequency (or MF) signalling almost exclusively when someone made a long distance call. This 480 Hertz tone is also used by operators at their TSPS terminal (Traffic Service Position System) to let them know to go ahead and key in the MF sequence manually (and that is the case with our call to England). The following was written by Keith Monahan in 2003 when he performed an analysis of the phone call portion of the song with a spectrum analyzer – and is edited as needed to help you better understand.
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