What was Pink Floyd's "The Wall" about? when was this song created?

Answer 1

Its mainly about people being controlled by the State.

Its set around ww2 and The Wall portion is about schoolkids being treated with scorn and derision by teachers who were wimps with psychopathic wives.

The Wall is the whole Album and I suggest you get a copy and listen to it. Its fantastic.

Answer 2

At last - a Floyd question! I'm a huge Floydian!

'The Wall' was Pink Floyd's 1979 double album. Roger Waters wrote the concept album about a character called Pink, loosely based on the biographies of both himself and former Floyd leader Syd Barrett. Like Waters, 'Pink' grew up with myriad neuroses after his father was killed during WW2. The character becomes a rock star, has a nervous breakdown, goes on stage thinking he is at a Nazi rally. Pink finally goes before a bizarre kangaroo court trial, clearly a symbolic representation of his state of mind.

This was all made into a film, featuring Bob Geldof as Pink, in 1982.

It is very difficult to sum up The Wall as it is so complex. There is an absolutely brilliant site which does a great job of analysing it. http://www.thewallanalysis.com/

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

a million) funds 2) yet another Brick contained in the Wall area 2 3) waiting for the Worms 4) very actual Numb 5) Welcome to the device 6) Us and Them 7) good day You 8) Have a Cigar 9) desire You were the following 10) Run Like Hell

Answer 4

It was released in 1979 the movie came out in 1982

Answer 5

Some great answers, I can do little more but to reiterate the fact that you should hear the album, and see the film if you can. As well as Geldof, there's some amazing animation by Ralph Steadman. Don't, however, do either if you're feeling depressed!

Answer 6

each brick represented this guy's (pink) problems and they just kept piling up until they created a wall around him.
circa 1970something.
great song.

Answer 7

"The Wall" is a 1979 rock opera concept album by Pink Floyd.

The storyline portrays the fictional life of an anti-hero named Pink, who is hammered and beaten down by society from the earliest days of his life: having lost his father (killed in Anzio during World War II, as was Roger Waters' own), smothered by his over-protective mother, and oppressed at school by tyrannical, abusive teachers who tried to mould him and the other pupils into the "right" shape for society (hence the recurring image of the meat grinder). Pink withdraws into his own fantasy world, building an imaginary wall, an allegory for being emotionally distant to protect himself from the rest of the world. Every bad experience in his life is "another brick in the wall". After heavily contemplating how to fill in the last few empty spaces in the wall, Pink puts off its construction for a while. He becomes a rock star and gets married (although not to Vera Lynn, as some may think — she was an entertainer in the Second World War, the track "Vera" is ironic of the fact that Roger Waters and his father never did "meet again" after the war as Vera Lynn's original song stated), only to be cheated on by his wife due to his distance and coldness, as well as the life as a rock star. After this he resumes and eventually finishes building the wall.

Pink slowly goes insane behind his freshly completed wall. He is lost on the inside, but is forced to surface by his demanding lifestyle, and I.V. drug use distributed by his crew to "keep him going through the show". Hallucinating, Pink believes that he is a fascist dictator, and his concerts are like Neo-Nazi rallies where he sets his men on fans he considers unworthy, only to have his conscience rebel at this and put himself on trial, his inner judge ordering him to tear down his wall in order to open himself to the outside world. At this point the album's end runs into its beginning with the closing words "Isn't this where..."; the first song on the album, "In the Flesh?", begins with the words "...we came in?" hinting at the cyclical nature of Waters' theme.

Answer 8

the wall is about the lack of communication between the individual and the society he lives in,, its about every one of us ,we live as aliens in our communities,,,,,each brick is a person and his problems... we are pieces in that great puzzle called life ,,, 27 years after the wall only the Internet is bringing us together,,, peace

Answer 9

its about Roger Waters growing up during world war II. About a lousy childhood.

Answer 10

it was definitely late seventies.. not sure which year exactly.
The song was based on a poem by some guy (sorry, I dont know specifics, youll have to research this) who had nearly OD'd on LSD. He had pretty much become a vegetable, but i guess he managed to write that poem