Roger Waters built a wall in his head—then made you pay to watch him tear it down.
It is now over 25 years since the release of The Wall. Conceived by Roger Waters as an ambitious double album, a spectacular live show and a ground breaking feature film. The Wall has gone on to achieve iconic status in the history of popular music. This program draws on live performance footage of Pink Floyd and highlights from the film. Also includes extracts from archive interviews with Gerald Scarfe and Alan Parker, the director of The Wall, along with the views of a team of leading musicians and musicologists. This is the independent critical review of a milestone in popular culture, which strips away the prejudice to produce the ultimate retrospective on one of the most important and iconoclastic popular works of the twentieth century. Featuring Highlights From: • Another Brick in The Wall Part 2 • Comfortably Numb • One Of My Turns • Plus Many More!
Direction
Parker and Scarfe's animated fever dreams still haunt.
Score
Gilmour's Comfortably Numb solo: two notes, infinite grief.
Production
The original wall construction: 340 bricks of pure neurosis.
Director
Bob Carruthers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original stage wall was 35 feet high and collapsed nightly—roadies rebuilt it 31 times per tour.
The 1990 Berlin Wall concert was capitalism eating its own tail: Waters performed 'The Wall' on actual fallen communist concrete.
No ratings yet
Sign in to join the discussion — comments are spoiler-gated to your watch progress.
Discussion starters
GB
