Pink Floyd - The Wall

At school, he is caught writing poems in class and is humiliated by the teacher, who reads a poem from Pink's book. However, it is revealed that the poor treatment of the students is because of the unhappiness of the teacher's marriage. Pink recalls an oppressive school system, imagining children falling into a meat grinder. He fantasises about the children rising in rebellion and burning down the school, throwing the teacher onto a bonfire. As an adult, Pink remembers his overprotective mother and his marriage. During a phone call, Pink realises that his wife is cheating on him. His traumatic experiences are represented as a "brick" in the wall he constructs around himself that divides him from society.

Pink returns to the hotel room with a groupie, only for him to destroy the room in a fit of violence, scaring her away. Depressed, he thinks about his wife and feels trapped in his room. He then remembers every "brick" of his wall. His wall is shown to be complete, and the film returns to the first scene.

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Now inside his wall, Pink does not leave his hotel room and begins to lose his mind to metaphorical "worms". He shaves all his body hair and watches television. The young Pink searches through the trenches of the war, eventually finding himself as an adult. Young Pink runs in terror and appears at a railway station, with the people demanding that the soldiers return home. Returning to the present, Pink's manager finds him in his hotel room, drugged and unresponsive. A paramedic injects him to enable him to perform.

In this state, Pink thinks he is a dictator, and his concert is a fascist rally. His followers attack blacks, gays, and Jews. He then holds a rally in London. Marching hammers goose-step across ruins. Pink stops hallucinating and screams "stop", deciding he no longer wants to be in the wall. He cowers in a bathroom stall, quietly singing to himself as a security guard walks past him. Pink, as a rag doll, is on trial for "showing feelings of an almost human nature". His teacher and wife accuse him, while his mother tries to take him home. His sentence is "to be exposed before his peers," and the judge gives the order to "tear down the wall!". Following a prolonged silence, the wall is smashed and Pink screams. Children clean up a pile of debris and empty a Molotov cocktail.

Waters was also dismayed by the "executive approach", which was only about success, not even attempting to get acquainted with the actual persons of whom the band was composed (addressed in an earlier song from Wish You Were Here, "Have a Cigar"). The concept of the wall, along with the decision to name the lead character "Pink", partly grew out of that approach, combined with the issue of the growing alienation between the band and their fans.[5] This symbolised a new era for rock bands, as Pink Floyd explored the hard realities of 'being where we are'", echoing ideas of alienation described by existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre.[6]

This is a flower so gynecological that Georgia O'Keefe might have been appalled. The bloom seduces a male flower, ravishes him, plunders him, and ultimately devours him. Perhaps she reflects Pink's terror of castration. Scarfe distorts the flower into other shapes for disquieting transformations, as a dove becomes a screaming eagle and then a warplane, landscapes are devastated and walls and goose-stepping hammers march across the land.

The Wall was Roger Waters' crowning accomplishment in Pink Floyd. It documented the rise and fall of a rock star (named Pink Floyd), based on Waters' own experiences and the tendencies he'd observed in people around him. By then, the bassist had firm control of the group's direction, working mostly alongside David Gilmour and bringing in producer Bob Ezrin as an outside collaborator. Drummer Nick Mason was barely involved, while keyboardist Rick Wright seemed to be completely out of the picture. Still, The Wall was a mighty, sprawling affair, featuring 26 songs with vocals: nearly as many as all previous Floyd albums combined. The story revolves around the fictional Pink Floyd's isolation behind a psychological wall. The wall grows as various parts of his life spin out of control, and he grows incapable of dealing with his neuroses. The album opens by welcoming the unwitting listener to Floyd's show ("In the Flesh?"), then turns back to childhood memories of his father's death in World War II ("Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1"), his mother's over protectiveness ("Mother"), and his fascination with and fear of sex ("Young Lust"). By the time "Goodbye Cruel World" closes the first disc, the wall is built and Pink is trapped in the midst of a mental breakdown. On disc two, the gentle acoustic phrasings of "Is There Anybody Out There?" and the lilting orchestrations of "Nobody Home" reinforce Floyd's feeling of isolation. When his record company uses drugs to coax him to perform ("Comfortably Numb"), his onstage persona is transformed into a homophobic, race-baiting fascist ("In the Flesh"). In "The Trial," he mentally prosecutes himself, and the wall comes tumbling down. This ambitious concept album was an across-the-board smash, topping the Billboard album chart for 15 weeks in 1980. The single "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" was the country's best-seller for four weeks. The Wall spawned an elaborate stage show (so elaborate, in fact, that the band was able to bring it to only a few cities) and a full-length film. It also marked the last time Waters and Gilmour would work together as equal partners.

The first act brings to life "Goodbye Cruel World," which shows the process of the main character, a rock star named Pink, building the wall as he deals with the pain of the death of his father in World War II, the domineering presence of his overprotective mother and memories of his horrible school days.

Playing the protagonist, Rogerled the listener, and now the viewer, down a partly autobiographicaland partly fictional story of Pink - the tortured rock star. Characterscame to life in the form of a robust inflatable mother, a 30 foot highteacher puppet, an insidious scorpion wife and various animatedcharacters like the brutal judge. Encasing and framing all this was thewall itself - all 420 white polystyrene bricks of it.

Banks of Phase Linear and Altecamplification hooked to each speaker position provided 106dB ofabsolutely clean sound. There were puppets, dirigibles and props tocontrol, two hydraulic lighting cranes, as well as hydraulic lifts forThe Wall builders and two seperate stage set-ups, for in front of thewall and behind it complete with monitors and lighting rigs.

The Wall shattered all fansexpectations. They watched as the group disappeared slowly behindbricks until by the second half the wall stood like a monument beforethem. The bricks themselves represented the psychological barrierserected to shield the human organism from the ebb and flow of dailyexistence.

Gerald Scarfe's botanical sexanimation came alive on the circular screen during Empty Spaces and forthe first time listeners got to hear What Shall We Do Now (missing fromthe album). During the first few performances the band would crank intoa classic blues workout (sometimes called Almost Gone) after AnotherBrick Part 2, mostly to allow the wall builders to catch up before thenext song. By Goodbye Cruel World, the band had blocked off all contactwith the audience as one final brick walled them in. This barrier leftviewers cold and confused, perhaps a bit psychologically numb waitingfor human contact.

Inthe second half, The Wall stood completed, vast, cold and impenetrable.Hey You was sung behind the wall as a plea for contact as the worms ofmoral decay have begun to eat into the nerve fibres of Pink's sanity.The Wall opened up during Nobody Home to reveal a complete hotel roomfor Roger's acting and reflection. High atop The Wall, David played hisblistering guitar solo in Comfortably Numb as his immense shadow wascast across the audience. Again, the Master of Ceremonies came out tointroduce the band for In The Flesh, now with the full band back infront of The Wall complete with a new hanging lighting rig. Later, forRun Like Hell, a dark pig with search-light eyes loomed over theaudience with crossed hammers painted on its side.

During Outside The Wall, theminstrels of doom armed with acoustic guitars, a mandolin, anaccordian, and Waters puffing on a clarinet, marched through the rubblein the final act, proclaiming "it's not easy banging your heart againstsome mad bugger's wall".

Another Brick in the Wall Lyrics - Part 1 (Waters) 3:41

Daddy's flown across the ocean

Leaving just a memory

Snapshot in the family album

Daddy what else did you leave for me?

Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!?

All in all it was just a brick in the wall.

All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.

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Pink is the protagonist of Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall and its 1982 musical drama film adaptation of the same name. He is a depressed musician who has isolated himself within a "wall" inside his head, due to the suffering brought about from the many traumatic events in his life, such as the death of his father in World War II, the abuse he suffered in school at the hands of strict teachers like The Schoolmaster, and his wife cheating on him. These tragedies cause him to lose his mind, eventually beginning to see himself as a fascist dictator.

At school, he is caught writing poems in class and humiliated by the teacher who reads his poem in front of the whole class. Pink imagines an oppressive school system in which children fall into a meat grinder. The children then rise in rebellion and destroy the school, carrying the Teacher away to an unknown fate. As an adult now, Pink remembers his overprotective mother, and when he got married. After a phone call, Pink discovers that his wife is cheating on him, and another animation shows that every traumatic experience he has had is represented as a "brick" in the metaphorical wall he constructs around himself to distance him from society.

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