Pink Floyd- The Wall pt2- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason

Whether architectural student-turned-musician/composer Roger Waters would have designed an actual structure more acclaimed or lucrative than The Wall, his musical concept for the Pink Floyd November 1979 double album, is pure conjecture, but the numbers that it has generated are starting to rival the Great Wall of China: #129 ranking on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 Top 500 Albums of All Time; worldwide sales of an estimated 30,000,000; a historic performance, broadcast and film at the actual Berlin Wall in 1990 by Waters and guest stars; a multi-year multi-continent extended live concert production of The Wall  by Roger Waters, and most recently his politically-charged Us + Them tour. 

Waters talks about the original Pink Floyd album, the limited initial live performances in late 1979 and early 1980, and The Wall  film which followed three years after the album, with pre-Live Aid organizer and Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof as the disillusioned, increasingly isolated “Pink”. David Gilmour and Nick Mason also disassemble The Wall pt2  in my classic rock interview here. – Redbeard