The Wall is one of the best-known concept albums.
In 1982, The Wall was adapted into a feature film for which Waters wrote the screenplay. From 1980 to 1981, Pink Floyd performed the full album on a tour that featured elaborate theatrical effects. Three singles were issued from the album: " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" (Pink Floyd's only UK and US number-one single), " Run Like Hell", and " Comfortably Numb". The Wall was the last album to feature Pink Floyd as a quartet keyboardist Richard Wright was fired by Waters during production but stayed on as a salaried musician. Producer Bob Ezrin helped to refine the concept and bridge tensions during recording, as the band members were struggling with personal and financial issues at the time. Recording spanned from December 1978 to November 1979. It initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later received accolades as one of the greatest albums of all time and one of the band's finest works.īassist Roger Waters conceived The Wall during Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh tour, modelling the character of Pink after himself and Pink Floyd's former songwriter Syd Barrett. The album was a commercial success, topping the US charts for 15 weeks and reaching number three in the UK. It is a rock opera that explores Pink, a jaded rock star whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society forms a figurative wall. The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/ EMI and Columbia/ CBS Records.
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