We must surely all agree that Pink Floyd's concept album
The Wall is one of the best popular music records of all time. Released in 1979 it became a massive international hit, and led to the production of Alan Parker's 1982 film adaptation starring Bob Geldof. In 1990, and after he had acrimoniously quit the band, the album's chief architect Roger Waters staged a live rendition on the site of the Berlin Wall. Between 2010 and 2013 he toured the album around the world in a massive live spectacular featuring digital imagery and animation, pyrotechnics and a massive life-size wall constructed between the performers and the audience over the course of the concert. The original album remains the third highest-selling album of all time in the USA. The international concert tour became the highest-grossing musical tour by a solo artist.
Never to let the idea lie fallow, Waters now extends The Wall again with the concert feature Roger Waters: The Wall. Co-directed with Sean Evans, it reproduces the exceptional live show for a movie-going audience. It intersperses the music with a striking and stylised sort of autobiographical art film, one that gently digs into the inspirations and the experiences that led to The Wall's creation.
