Roger Waters (for Pink Floyd) - 1979-11-30 - Describing The Wall (BBC Radio 1)

Track by track, Roger Waters explain The Wall.
Roger Waters interview by Tommy Vance 1979 "The Friday Rock Show" BBC Radio 1, originally broadcast 30th November 1979.

[@jasonali4122]

I remember listening to this on the night it was broadcast (10 pm on Radio 1). Actually, I'd bought the album a few hours earlier at Boots' in Rochdale. I saw the live show at Earl's Court in 1980 and then again in 1981. In the second show we were on row 8 and we took home a cardboard brick - it was the last night and the roadies didn't seem too fussed. Amazing memories.

[@Suunder]

you still have that brick?

[@shanghai264359]

Great memories indeed! Exactly my experience too but we only saw the Earl's Court show that was filmed.

[@andrewdyrda8012]

Same, exactly the same. Exciting days!

[@Comfortably_Dumb1057]

I remember listening to this 44 years ago! I was lucky enough to see Pink Floyd perform The Wall at Earls Court in London. What an incredible concert it was, Rock Theatre at its best. An airplane flying over the heads of the audience, crashing into flames into the part built wall. Giant puppets of the Teacher and the Mother. A full surround sound, Just Brilliant. Thankyou Pink Floyd for most of the soundtrack to my life.

[@andrewdyrda8012]

Wow. Great interview by Tommy Vance. Listened to it on bbc radio 1 so many years ago. So good is been preserved. Well done!

[@dannyallen4456]

I remember listeing to this back in the day........14 years old.....if pushed....my favourite album......(depends what day you ask me)😁

[@thecannetwork7559]

Excellent upload thanks

[@bshtavinski1345]

Amazing

[@bassimprovjams3772]

Wow I needed this so badly! Been obsessed with “the wall” for about 6 yrs and wanted to get deep into it enough to know most of it and came here to hear how far off I was, this is the best album written easily!!! Thank your Roger for this masterpiece!! So
Much I feel like pink myself so often, this album chokes me up almost everytime, especially “one of my turns” it’s just so relatable

[@scottdelong1]

Thanks for this. Fascinating track by track breakdown of a timeless masterpiece. BTW, I remember when Roger first left Floyd in '83 and embarked on a solo career and he had difficulty selling albums and filling concert seats whilst Floyd Lite (Spinal Floyd?) was filling stadiums playing HIS songs. But now, with record breaking world spanning tours and a successful solo album- to see my hero finally vindicated with this late career peak is incredibly gratifying. Rock on Roger.

[@heftosprod]

My word. Rarely do you hear this kinda truth expressed. I think all of his solo records are brilliant.. particularly amused to death. There’s little doubt where the Floyd everybody knows, or thinks they know, emerged out of trippy 60s experimentation and into prog masters. They needed this kinda conceptual brilliance.. or it’d just be another load of guitar solos and whatnot.

[@davidgilmour3173]

They only played mainly two songs with writing credits solely to Roger on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in Money and Another Brick in The Wall part 2. Nice try though. To call every song up to Roger’s departure his own is highly discrediting the other members of the band. Most of the old material they played on that tour was from The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here which was very much a collaborative effort by everyone in the band.

[@scottdelong1]

@@davidgilmour3173 - Thanks for replying Dave. Might I consider this my brush with greatness? Can I have your autograph?

[@heftosprod]

@@davidgilmour3173 Yes... that's a given. But still, all Waters driven concepts and most certainly his lyrics which Gilmour got up and sang every time. There's no way the band would've taken major flight without that particular branch of their creativity and no way they'd have had any kind of compelling repertoire for their otherwise completely MOR orientated tours and releases that followed Waters departure.

[@davidgilmour3173]

@@heftosprod Okay so if you have a problem with Gilmour singing some of Roger’s lyrics, you must have a problem with Roger’s musicians playing Gilmour and Wright’s music as that was mostly driven by them, right? Only fair. Lyrics without music are just poetry. Roger was definitely responsible for a lot of the concept material and ideas that shaped the albums, but so much of the music is based around Gilmour’s innovation on the guitar along with Wright on keys. Roger is the one who goes around claiming to be the creative genius of the band but he sounds like a bad cover during a lot of his shows. Could Roger construct the long instrumental parts? No. It’s mainly Gilmour and Wright with input from Roger. As producers who have worked with Roger say, he is good at saying “I like this” and “I don’t like this”. He is good at hearing what he wants and telling the band how to do it, but it takes a musician to make it happen. Let’s not forget we are only having this argument because we love the band so much and the amazing music they created. They are all doing their own thing now and don’t have many years left so let’s hope for some more solo albums.

[@fatharold1788]

i wish we could find out who that fan was that got spit on and have him and roger do a celebrity boxing match

[@opinion3742]

????

[@testicuslargus6477]

It's unfortunate how "What Shall We Do Now?" is never added back in, they had the chance to do so for either the 1994 or 2011 remasters...

[@Gravicembalo-10]

It's a nervous breakdown from a divorce, Masterpiece.

[@Pez779]

Mixed with syd barrets problems

[@fragilesoulofthespotless80]

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