Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall

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Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall (2011)

05/28/2011 (FR) Documentary, Music 1h 20m

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This documentary looks at the conception, design and live shows of The Wall performed by Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981. It features in-depth 1980s era interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason and shows footage of The Wall performed at Earl's Court in 1980. It also features archival footage of the Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and discusses how David Gilmour was brought into the band to initially augment their live shows when Syd became unreliable due to his drug problem and how Gilmour ultimately replaced him.

Sonia Anderson

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David Gilmour

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Nick Mason

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Roger Waters

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Richard Wright

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Joe Boyd

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A review by Wuchak

80%

Written by Wuchak on November 12, 2018

Focuses on the early years and skims over the rest

This quality documentary from 2011 is only 80 minutes long with 50 minutes spent on the band’s beginnings in the 60s and the Syd Barrett years, plus the immediate aftermath, which covers their first two albums when they sounded like a cross between The Doors and latter-day Beatles. Speaking of whom, the film shows how The Beatles were recording SGT. PEPPER’S at the same studio when the Floyd boys were recording THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (1967) and how the Fab Four were influenced by Floyd’s creative and boundless psychedelia.

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Original Language English

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