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On November 30 th, the audience. the monumental 26 - song double album The album’s overriding themes are opus turns thirty, (feel old now?). based upon the causes and implications of Immensely successful upon its release, The self-imposed isolation, symbolized by the Wall was the best selling album of 1980 in metaphorical wall of the title. The songs the United States. It is one of the best-selling create an approximate storyline of events in double albums of all time, and is in the top the life of the protagonist, Pink. His father five best-selling albums of all time in the dies during Pink’s childhood (Water’s father US. It debuted at no. 2 in Rolling Stone’s top was killed during World War II). He is 100. oppressed by his overprotective mother, and The Wall is a rock opera that centers on tormented at school by tyrannical, abusive the character Pink , who is largely based on teachers. Each of these traumas becomes the band’s bassist and lyricist Roger “ another brick in the wall ” . Pink becomes a Waters . Pink encounters obstacles rock star, his relationships marred by throughout his life, beginning with the loss infidelity, drug use, and outbursts of violence. of his father during World War II, continuing As his marriage crumbles, Pink finishes with abuse from his schoolteachers, an building the wall, completing his isolation overprotective mother, and the desertion of from human contact. his wife - all of which factor into Pink’s Now hidden behind his freshly isolation from society, represented by the completed “wall”, Pink’s crisis escalates, metaphorical “Wall” of the album title. culminating in a hallucinatory on-stage However the concept for the album performance where he believes that he is a dates back in 1977 during the Animals tour. fascist dictator, and that his concerts are like Roger Waters became very uncomfortable Neo-Nazi rallies, where he sets his men on doing such large shows at stadiums. He felt fans he considers unworthy. Tormented with a disconnect between Floyd’s fans vs. the guilt, he places himself on trial, his inner artistic value of the music and show during judge ordering him to “tear down the wall”, their performances. Although he knew there opening Pink to the outside world. The were many fans at the shows that were there album’s end runs into its beginning with the to appreciate the experience, he became closing words “Isn’t this where...” The first frustrated with the behavior of their song on the album, “In the Flesh?“ begins audiences. He would often yell abusively at with the words “...we came in?”—with a disruptive audiences who wouldn’t stop continuation of the melody of the last song, yelling and screaming during the quieter “Outside the Wall”—hinting at the cyclical numbers. nature of Water’s theme. Finally, on July 6, 1977, the last show The album includes several references to of the Animals tour, in Montreal Canada at former band-member Syd Barrett . Olympic Stadium, a small riot at the front of ‘Nobody Home’ hints at Barrett’s condition the stage followed the band’s eventual exit. during Pink Floyd’s abortive US tour of That night, Waters spat in the face of a 1967, such as “wild, staring eyes”, “Hendrix disruptive fan; The Wall grew out of Waters’ perm”, and “elastic bands keeping my shoes thoughts about this incident, particularly his on”. The following song, ‘Comfortably growing awareness that stardom had Numb’, is a allegory of Water’s experiences alienated him from his audience. He would during the Animals tour , where he was 4 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 November 18 - December 2, 2009 injected with a muscle relaxant to combat the about Roger, for Roger” however, he thought animations of fiendish floral designs, effects of hepatitis. that it needed further work. marching hammers, Pink’s scorpion bride, Putting together The Wall had its Due to the enormity in size and how and a whole hosts of images following sides consequences however. The biggest being lavish the show, The Wall concert was only three and four of the album. The show ends the eventual break up of the band where performed a handful of times each in four with a spectacular climax by tearing the wall David Gilmour and Roger Waters would cities: Los Angeles, 7 shows; Uniondale down with the cardboard bricks collapsing never work together again.