Waters' touring band on the soundtrack consists, naturally, of the musicians and vocalists who toured with him: Dave Kilminster, Snowy White, G.E. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1983. The songlist also includes 'Last Few Bricks,' a medley of songs performed during the first half of the album and used as a vamp to give stagehands time to bring the wall up to the proper height before the final brick is layed after 'Goodbye Cruel World.' Fans got their first legitimate recording of 'Last Few Bricks' on the 2001 album 'Is There Anybody Out There: The Wall Live 1980-81.' George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. 2.' The song references a Brazlian national killed by London police in 2005. (In 2010, Gilmour had promised to perform Comfortably Numb at one of the concerts on Waters then-upcoming The Wall Live tour if Waters agreed to join him. 'The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes' follows 'Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 20, one of the first Floyd-related albums to follow the new 'universal' Friday release date on both sides of the Atlantic.Ī complete rendition of the live spectacle, the ' Roger Waters The Wall' 2-CD soundtrack includes a couple of tracks missing from the original Pink Floyd album: 29, 2015.įollowing a handful of additional in-theater dates announced by the powers that be the very next day, release of the film on DVD came Nov.

The show also includes musicians and singers from the original Pink Floyd and Roger Waters tours. ' Roger Waters The Wall,' a concert film, documentary and anti-war piece, opened for a one-night showing Tuesday, Sept. The Wall is one of the most iconic rock albums ever recorded. What many didn't anticipate was a full-on theatrical release first. Surely a DVD or CD would be coming - probably both. More than 4 million fans had seen the show, making Waters' 'Wall' tour the highest grossing tour for a solo musician ever - $465.87 million. By the time the tour had ended three years and 219 shows later, it was all but guaranteed. Fans speculated from the start of Roger Waters' 'The Wall' tour in 2010 that a film or album would result.

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