The band chose the first option the second eventually became Waters's first solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984). The second was about a man's dreams across one night, and dealt with marriage, sex, and the pros and cons of monogamy and family life versus promiscuity. The first was a 90-minute demo with the working title Bricks in the Wall. In July 1978, Pink Floyd reconvened at Britannia Row Studios, where Waters presented two new ideas for concept albums.
The spitting incident became the starting point for a new concept, which explored the protagonist's self-imposed isolation after years of traumatic interactions with authority figures and the loss of his father as a child. While Gilmour and Wright were in France recording solo albums, and drummer Nick Mason was busy producing Steve Hillage's Green, Waters began to write material. He articulated his desire to isolate himself by constructing a wall across the stage between the band and the audience. That night, Waters spoke with producer Bob Ezrin and Ezrin's psychiatrist friend about the alienation and despair he was experiencing. Guitarist and singer-songwriter David Gilmour refused to perform a final encore and sat at the soundboard, leaving the band, with backup guitarist Snowy White, to improvise a slow, sad 12-bar blues, which Waters announced to the audience as "some music to go home to". In July 1977, on the final date at the Montreal Olympic Stadium, a group of noisy and excited fans near the stage irritated Waters so much that he spat on one of them. He said: "It became a social event rather than a more controlled and ordinary relationship between musicians and an audience." Some audience members set off firecrackers, leading Waters to stop playing and scold them. Bassist and singer-songwriter Roger Waters despised the experience, feeling the audience was not listening and that many were too far away to see the band.
In 1977, Pink Floyd played the In the Flesh tour. The album's concept was born out of an altercation with audience members at Olympic Stadium (pictured in 2006). From 2010 to 2013, Waters staged a new Wall live tour that became the highest-grossing tour by a solo musician. In 2003, 2012, and 2020, it was included in Rolling Stone 's lists of the greatest albums of all time. In 2000, it was voted number 30 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. Some of the outtakes from the recording sessions were used on the group's next album, The Final Cut (1983). With over 30 million copies sold, it is the second best-selling album in the band's catalogue (behind The Dark Side of the Moon), the best selling double-album of all time, and one of the best-selling albums of all time overall. The Wall is one of the best-known concept albums.
In 1982, The Wall was adapted into a feature film for which Waters wrote the screenplay.
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From 1980 to 1981, Pink Floyd performed the full album on a tour that featured elaborate theatrical effects. Three singles were issued from the album: " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (Pink Floyd's only UK and US number-one single), " Run Like Hell", and " Comfortably Numb". The Wall was the last album to feature Pink Floyd as a quartet keyboardist Richard Wright was fired by Waters during production but stayed on as a salaried musician. Producer Bob Ezrin helped to refine the concept and bridge tensions during recording, as the band members were struggling with personal and financial issues at the time. Recording spanned from December 1978 to November 1979. It initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later received accolades as one of the greatest albums of all time and one of the band's finest works.īassist Roger Waters conceived The Wall during Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh tour, modelling the character of Pink after himself and Pink Floyd's former songwriter Syd Barrett. The album was a commercial success, topping the US charts for 15 weeks and reaching number three in the UK. It is a rock opera that explores Pink, a jaded rock star whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society forms a figurative wall. The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/ EMI and Columbia/ CBS Records.
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