when did pink floyd the wall album come out

Gilmour, Barrett, and Waters met at Cambridgeshire High School in the mid-1950s and - despite the wave of rock rebellion sweeping each of them up - pursued very different careers following high school. Rick Wright, David Gilmour, and Syd Barrett all had fathers with careers in research or academia, whereas Waters’ father died during World War II. All Floyd members except Waters and Nick Mason came from established middle or upper-middle class backgrounds, according to Floyd biographer Mark Blake. Yet the story of The Wall is as much about Waters’ own struggles to make his creative voice heard as it is the entire band’s struggle to escape from Barrett’s shadow.Ĭlichéd as it may sound, those struggles actually stretch back to before the band first formed in Cambridge, England, and they're undeniably built in part around social class. He wasn’t necessarily wrong though, and nowhere is that more apparent than the making of Pink Floyd’s landmark rock opera, The Wall. Waters contributed to the legend by breaking his usual stance of remaining largely silent in public as the band started splitting up - claiming it was his creation and that everything from the band’s name to the flying pigs used for props belonged to him. The former is understandable, given Barrett’s influential role shaping the band and (along with some good fortune) setting it apart from other acts at the time, but the latter is a bit more complicated. Pretty much every conversation about Pink Floyd inevitably ends up at one of two places, either the impact of former founding member Syd Barrett, or a dive into Roger Waters’ allegedly extreme egoism.

When did pink floyd the wall album come out