In this tour, the wall was much wider and had updated higher quality projected content with leading edge projection technology.ġ7. From 2010 to 2013, Waters performed the album worldwide on his tour, The Wall Live. In 1990, Waters and producer Tony Hollingsworth made The Wall – Live in Berlin, staged for charity at a site once occupied by part of the Berlin Wall.ġ6. Scarfe’s animations were also used for The Wall movie, accompanied by live concert footage.ġ5. Four Winnebagos were parked in a circle, with the doors facing away from the center with Waters remaining isolated, using his own vehicle to arrive to the venue.ġ4. During the tour, the band members didn’t get along.
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At his studio in London he hired 40 animators to make a series of nightmarish versions of the future, such as a dove of peace exploding to reveal an eagle, a schoolmaster and Pink’s mother.ġ3. Scarfe was first hired to make a series of animations for The Wall. Several characters from the story were shows as giant inflatables, such as a pig with a crossed hammers logo.ġ2. Gaps allowed the spectators to view various scenes in the story as Scarfe’s animations were projected onto the completed parts of the wall.ġ1. During each performance of the band’s The Wall Tour, a 40 foot, or 12 meter, high wall of cardboard bricks was gradually built between the band and audience.
When the complete album was played for a group of executives at Columbia’s headquarters in California, several were reportedly not impressed by what they heard.ġ0. The falling out was because of Thorgerson using the cover of the Animals album in his book Walk Away Rene.ĩ. The Wall is the first album cover from Pink Floyd since The Piper at the Gates of Dawn not to be created by Hipgnosis due to Waters having a falling out with their designer Storm Thorgerson. “Comfortably Numb” was inspired by Water’s injection with a muscle relaxant to fight the effects of hepatitis during the In the Flesh Tour, while in Philadelphia.Ĩ.
The album has several references to former band member Syd Barrett, including “Nobody Home,” which hints at his condition during Pink Floyd’s abortive United States tour in 1967.ħ. He feels oppressed by his overprotective mother and tormented at school by abusive teachers.Ħ. Pink’s father also dies in the war, which is when he starts to build a metaphorical wall around him. The songs in the album create a storyline about a person called Pink, who’s a character based on Syd Barrett and Roger Waters, whose father was killed during World War II.ĥ. The Wall looks at abandonment and isolation that are symbolised by a metaphorical wall. During the tour, his frustration with the audience became so bad that he spat on them.Ĥ. Bass guitarist and songwriter Roger Waters thought of the album as a rock opera during Pink Floyd’s 1977 In the Flesh Tour.
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The album was made into a feature movie with the same name.ģ. The Wall is Pink Floyd’s second best selling album, after The Dark Side of the Moon, and one of the best selling albums of all time.Ģ. Take a look below for 23 more fun and interesting facts about Pink Floyd’s The Wall album.ġ. At first, it received mixed critical responses, though it was very commercially successful. It was released as a double album on Novemby Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and by Columbia Records in the United States. The Wall is the 11th album by English rock band Pink Floyd.