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UK Release Date - November 30, 1979
US Release Date - December 8, 1979
UK Chart - #3; US Chart - #1
David Gilmour - Guitar & Vocals
Roger Waters - Bass Guitar & Vocals
Nick Mason - Percussion
Richard Wright - Keyboards
Lyrics by - Roger Waters
Young Lust - Roger Waters & David Gilmour
Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour & Roger Waters
Run Like Hell - David Gilmour & Roger Waters
The Trial - Waters & Ezrin
Produced by - Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour & Roger Waters
Co-Produced by - James Guthrie
Engineered by - James Guthrie
Other Engineers -
Nick Griffiths
Patrice Quef
Brian Christian
Rick Hart
John McClure
Backing Vocals -
Bruce Johnston
Toni Tenille
Joe Chemay
John Joyce
Stan Farber
Jim Haas
Islington Green School
Orchestra Arranged by - Michael Kamen & Bob Ezrin
Sound Equipment - Phil Taylor
Recorded at -
Super Bear Studios- Miravel,France
CBS-New York
Producers Workshop-Los Angeles
Between April and November 1979
Sleeve Design by - Gerald Scarfe and Roger Waters
TRACKS
In the Flesh? (Waters) [03:17] Vocals by Waters.
The Thin Ice (Waters) [02:28] Vocals by Waters and Gilmour ("Momma loves ... Ooh babe").
Another Brick in the Wall part.I (Waters) [03:41] Vocals by Waters.
The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Waters) [01:20] Vocals by Waters.
Another Brick in the Wall part.II (Waters) [03:56] Vocals by Waters and Gilmour.
Mother (Waters) [05:32] Vocals by Waters and Gilmour (the mother).
Goodbye Blue Sky (Waters) [02:48] Vocals by Gilmour and Waters (harmonisizes).
Empty Spaces (Waters) [02:07] Vocals by Waters.
Young Lust (Waters, Gilmour) [03:29] Vocals by Gilmour.
One of my Turns (Waters, Gilmour) [03:36] Vocals by Waters.
Don't Leave Me Now (Waters) [04:22] Vocals by Waters and Gilmour (OOOhhhss).
Another Brick in the Wall part.III (Waters) [01:17] Vocals by Waters.
Goodbye Cruel Word (Waters) [01:05] Vocals by Waters.
Hey You (Waters) [04:39] Vocals by Gilmour and Waters ("But it was only...").
Is There Anybody Out There? (Waters) [02:40] Vocals by Waters. Nobody
Home (Waters) [03:25] Vocals by Waters.
Vera (Waters) [01:38] Vocals by Waters.
Bring the Boys Back Home (Waters) [00:50]Vocals by Waters.
Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters) [06:49] Vocals by Waters (the Doctor) and Gilmour (Pink).
The Show Must Go On (Waters) [01:36] Vocals by Gilmour.
In the Flesh (Waters) [04:16] Vocals by Waters.
Run Like Hell (Gilmour, Waters) [04:22] Vocals by Waters and Gilmour.
Waiting for the Worms (Waters) [03:56] Vocals by Waters and Gilmour.
Stop (Waters) [00:34] Vocals by Waters.
The Trial (Waters, Ezrin) [05:16] Vocals by Waters.
Outside the Wall (Waters) [01:42] Vocals by Waters.
Total Playing Time: 80:01
QUOTES
David Gilmour: "I still think some of the music is incredibly naff, but
The Wall is conceptually brilliant. At the time I thought it was
Roger listing all the things that can turn a person into an isolated
human being. I came to see it as as one of the luckiest people in the
world issuing a catalogue of abuse and bile against people who'd never
done anything to him. Roger was taking more and more of the credits. In
the songbook for this album against Comfortably Numb it says Music
by Gilmour and Waters. It shouldn't. He did the lyrics. I did the
music. I kept finding hundreds of little things like that. Shouldn't
bitch, but one does feel unjustly done."
Nick Mason: "The recording was very tense, mainly because Roger was
starting to go a bit mad. This was the record when he fell out badly
with Rick. Rick has a natural style, a very specific piano style, but
he doesn't come up with pieces easily, or to order. Which is a problem
when other people are worrying about who did what and who should get
the credit. There was even talk of Roger and Dave elbowing me out and
carrying on as a duo. There were points during The Wall when Roger and
Dave were really carrying the thing. Rick was useless, and I wasn't
very much help to anyone either."
David Gilmour: "Generally Nick worked hard and played well on The Wall.
He even worked out a way of reading music for the drums. But
there was one track called Mother which he really didn't get. So I
hired Jeff Porcaro to do it. And Roger latched on to this idea, the way
he always did with my ideas, and began to think, is Nick really
necessary?"
During the sessions for The Wall, Richard Wright was basically forced
out of Pink Floyd.
Rick Wright: "Roger came up with the whole album on a demo, which
everyone felt was potentially very good but musically very weak. Very
weak indeed. Bob [Ezrin], Dave and myself worked on it to make it more
interesting. But Roger was going through a big ego thing at the time,
saying that I wasn't putting enough in, although he was making it
impossible for me to do anything. The crunch came when we all went off
on holiday towards the end of the recording. A week before the holiday
was up I got a call from Roger in America, saying come over
immediately. Then there was this band meeting in which Roger told me he
wanted me to leave the band. At first I refused. So Roger stood up
and said that if I didn't agree to leave after the album was finished,
he would walk out then and there and take the tapes with him. There
would be no album, and no money to pay off our huge debts. So I agreed
to go. I had two young kids to support. I was terrified. Now I think I
made a mistake. It was Roger's bluff. But I really didn't want to work
with this guy anymore."
David Gilmour: "We had a studio in the south of France where Rick was
staying. There rest of us had rented houses 20 miles away. We'd all go
home at night, and we'd say to Rick, Do what you like, here all these
tracks, write something, play a solo, put some stuff down. You've got
all evening every evening to do it. All the time we were there, which
was several months, he did nothing. He just wasn't capable of playing
anything."
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