The Wall
The Wall is the eleventh album of the British group of progressive Rock Pink Floyd. It is, with The Dark Side off the Moon and Wish You Were Here , considered as one of the most important albums of the group.
This double album left to the the United Kingdom the November 30th 1979, and to the the United States the December 8th. It marks the apogee of the group, which will not meet any more success are equivalent thereafter. It is also the first collaboration with the type-setter Michael Kamen and the last true agreement between the two more important authors of the group, Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
The Wall became a standard of the Rock and its morbid and depressing musics inspired since many artists. Roger Waters drew the inspiration at the time of the round In the Flesh . With Montreal, in 1977, the behavior of a fan made that Roger Waters spit to him with the face. It was immediately disgusted by its gesture and it had then the idea to build a wall ( wall in English) between him and the public, concept which it developed in this album. The wire of the album is carried out by the portrait of a fictitious anti-hero, Pink, which is maltreated by the company which surrounds it since its more young age: loss of his/her father at the time of the Second world war (like Roger Waters, which will take again this topic in The Final Cut ), mother and oppressive teachers, inaccurate woman…
In 1982, the realizer Alan Parker will put this album in images in a homonymous feature-length film, with Bob Geldof in the role of Pink. The film will leave under the name of Pink Floyd The Wall .
One employed terms as various as varied to try to define The Wall : a “Rock opera”, a “Musical comedy”, “a Album-concept” or even a “Oratorio”. None of these words is completely adapted, but there is a share of truth in each one of them. It is not a rock opera, but it has something of opera incontestably; the song The Trial can prove it. The truth is that The Wall takes a form different with each stage from its development. In the standard lexicon of the music rock'n'roll, it can be defined like a “concept-album””
Toilets noticed that, often, people present at the concerts were not there to listen to the music, but to shout, howl or launch detonators. Frustrated more and more, Waters moved away gradually from the public. At the time of a concert with Montreal, it could not support this situation any more. He told in an interview with Radio One :
The base of all is this history. Montreal 1977, with the Olympic stadium in front of: 80000 people, the last concert of our round. I if was pained during the show which I spit on a guy in front of which did certainly what it wanted, but what it wanted was not what I wanted. He shouted, he howled and seemed to have fun like insane by pushing the barrier. He wanted to fight, in fact. And me, I wanted to make a concert of rock'n'roll “roll. I was grained so much that I finished by him spitting above, which is something that one should make with nobody. I had it, it was caught my spittle into full face
Only which seemed able to guarantee enough incomes on the short term were their own recording companies. EMI in the United Kingdom and CBS with the the United States were quite informed on the commercial value of Pink Floyd and their manager Steve O' Rourke ensured himself quickly that the recording companies advance with the group the sum, enormous for the time, of 45 million Livres sterling, which was more than sufficient to record the album and to save the group of the financial shipwreck
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