Fearless

Gilmour and Waters wrote it and Pink Floyd produced it, recorded between May 9 and September 11, 1971 at AIR, Abbey Road and Morgan in London; Meddle as a whole was made from January 4 to September 11. John Leckie and Peter Bown engineered at EMI and AIR, Rob Black and Roger Quested at Morgan. Gilmour doubled his vocal and played acoustic and electric guitars, Waters played bass and acoustic guitar, Richard Wright piano and Nick Mason drums and tambourine. Waters played the acoustic parts in an open G tuning that Syd Barrett had taught him.

A field recording of Liverpool supporters singing the Rodgers and Hammerstein song "You'll Never Walk Alone" is laid over the start and the end, fading out in heavy reverb. Leckie said it is still the one everyone in Liverpool plays, for the football chant and for the churning acoustic guitars, and the one the La's and bands like them name as the classic Pink Floyd track. A classic rock reviewer reads the lyric as about meeting challenges in the face of adversity; that is the critic's reading, not a band statement. Rolling Stone's Jean-Charles Costa called it a clever spoof in January 1972.

It was the B-side of "One of These Days" on a US 7-inch, Capitol 3240, released November 29, 1971. Wikipedia says the band never played it live as Pink Floyd; Roger Waters revived it for a few shows in 2016 and Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets played it from 2018. Gov't Mule covered it on Dark Side of the Mule, and Guitar World lists Fish, the Black Crowes and Low among others. Linklater's film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) plays it, and the BBC's Match of the Day played it over the credits after Liverpool won the 2025 Premier League title. Our upload is an official static-audio video, with no film.