

It spent 15 weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart, while the single “Another Brick in the Wall, Part II” also topped the charts. A tour-de-force of rock 'n' roll stagecraft anchored in a powerful message of peace and compassion, The Wall Live became a must-see concert event for music fans everywhere. The band performed the album in its entirety on its 1980-1981 tour, and Waters revived it for a star-studded event in 1990 that was filmed in front of a massive. Released in November 1979, “The Wall” was a semi-autobiographical work revolving around a disaffected musician named Pink facing an existential personal crisis. Roger Waters The Wall captures Roger Waters' sold-out 2010-2013 The Wall Live tour, the first complete staging of the classic Pink Floyd concept album since 1990. 3 The concert design and execution draws heavily from the original concert of the same name that followed the release of the 1979 Pink Floyd album, The Wall. It premiered in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, 2 with Waters and Evans in attendance. Directed by Waters and Sean Evans, it captures performances of Waters' live tour. Other props and special effects are expected to be part of the show. Roger Waters: The Wall is a British concert film by Roger Waters. The tour will feature a 240-foot-wide and 35-foot-tall wall constructed and torn down as the show progresses. Waters, who played Pink Floyd’s other opus “The Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety during a 2007-08 trek, will reportedly take “The Wall” to Europe in 2011, but no dates have yet been announced. Besides Bob Geldof, the tour will feature singers and musicians who have performed with Pink Floyd or Roger Waters. The 1979 concept album has been performed only 31 times in concert - by Pink Floyd in a handful of cities in 1980-81, and by Waters with an all-star cast in July 1990 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall the year before.


Check out our video Rig Rundowns with each. The trek will wrap December 13 in Anaheim, Calif. PGs Rebecca Dirks, Jason Shadrick, and Tessa Jeffers spent an afternoon onstage at Roger Waters The Wall Live tour. DETROIT (Billboard) - Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters is taking “The Wall” on the road this fall for a historic 36-date North American tour starting September 15 in Toronto. Roger Waters The Wall (4,189) 8.5 2 h R Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fuses the epic and the personal in a film following his groundbreaking 2010-2013 tour both a dazzling concert and an intensely personal road trip.
