Pink Floyd The Wall

Pink Floyds The Wall was mainly written and conceived by Roger Waters. The concept is that we build a wall round our selves by our experiences of life and if we let it, it consumes us. In Roger Waters life it was an incident on the In the Flesh tour in Canada when he became so fed up with fans coming to concerts and not appreciating the music Pink Floyd were playing that he spat at a particular fan. This so discussed him that he realized that his life was becoming so distanced and he was becoming isolated from the world. Add in other traumas in his life the Wall was developed.

The Wall was only played 30 odd times in the US, London and Europe.

 The stage had a 35 foot high and 230 foot wide wall built on it while the group played. So that at the end of side one the Wall was complete and the group were behind it. During the second half the song Comfortably Numb is played and the David Gilmour guitar solo is made famous.

  For more Pink Floyd videos of the Wall follow this link where you can see the original 1980 tour version plus more upto date versions of this great song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrlSRIth8E 

At the end after the trial the roadies push the Wall down with bricks landing very near to the audience. Its an credible site which is even more so on the Roger Waters tour.

It was performed again in 1990 at the Berlin Wall with Roger Waters and guest Stars, Joni Mitchell,Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, The Band, Sinead O’Connor, James Galway and the incomparable Van Morrison.

In 2010 Roger Waters took The Wall on tour which according to the New York Post was the most amazing concert ever to be performed by any artist or group.

It was an updated version of the 1980 Wall concerts but with more emphasis on antiwar. Over 100 performances in the US and Europe.

Most of it is available here to watch.

The Wall was also made into a film with Bob Geldolf as Pink but although there were extra racks the film was not a particular success.

The album has sold well over 20million making it one of the biggest selling album of all time.

Check out www.floydwall.com for more information. 

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