Another Brick In The Wall

[emily1890]

can someone explain to me why pink floyd's song, another brick in the wall, has a part 1, 2, and 3?

I thought the whole lot was just one song

[bobbinwales]

It's from there album The Wall which is a bit of a story

[bobbinwales]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall
Describes it as a rock opera.read tge 'concepts' section

[andy-hughes]

The Wall is a concept album dealing with developing isolation as we grow into adulthood.

The idea is the a surrounding psychological wall is built around us brick by brick, and is a recurring theme of the album.

When the band played the album in concert, the road crew constructed a wall across the front of the stage, separating audience and band as the songs were performed.

[Arksided]

The whole album is based around the demise of Roger Waters late father and late Pink Floyd member Sid Barret.

From the album with Dave live... not Roger

[Hopkirk]

I liked Pink Floyd until this rubbish was released.

[jno]

When the band played the album in concert, the road crew constructed a wall across the front of the stage, separating audience and band as the songs were performed

a replica of Stonehenge would have been nice too.

[Arksided]

You dismiss it as Rubbish Hopkirk, shame on you. you even obviously know to understand the full concept of the album

[Hopkirk]

Guilty. I've never listened to the album. The single put me off.

[piggynose]

I preferred the early stuff, ummagumma+dsotm.
They later sold their souls! Sad really.

[royfromaus]

It was Pink Floyd that put me off listening to the album.

[Arksided]

No they didn't Dave Gilmore and co moved forward.. from DSOTM they got better and progressed.

[andy-hughes]

jno - I was that soldier!

I was there when Black Sabbath played with their Stonehenge set, forever immortalised in the 'rockumentary' Spinal Tap.

It was a Reading Festival, and Sabbath were at one of their career low points - they had Ian Gillan on vocals, and Bev Bevan (from ELO!) on drums.

The show got off to a terrible start when coloured smoke was somewhat over-applied, and Ian Gillan disappeared coughing and choking under a cloud of it.

The show did not get better, and backstage afterwards, when I was interviewing the band, Geezer Butler threatened me if I didn't get the name of his beloved Aston Villa right in the feature.

Apparently an American journalist had somehow forgotten the Villa, and translated the name into 'Woverhampton Wolverines' and Geezer was not impressed.

Remembering that my editor at the time had been on the receiving end of a punch from Geezer over a negative album review he had penned, and had measured his length on the press junket room floor, i was delighted to confirm that I knew the name, and would be sure to get it right.

Who'd be a music journalist!!!!

Well - me actually!!