Meisterwerk: Pink Floyd – The Wall

Veröffentlichung 30. November 1979
Label: Harvest
Format: Doppel-LP, Gatefold, Kassette

Side A:

1. In the Flesh? (Waters) 3:18
2. The Thin Ice (Waters) 2:28
3. Another Brick in the Wall (Part One) (Waters) 3:41
4. The Happiest Days of our Lives (Waters) 1:21
5. Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two) (Waters) 3:56

Side B:

1. Mother (Waters) 5:32
2. Goodbye Blue Sky (Waters) 2:48
3. Empty Spaces** (Waters) 2:06
4. Young Lust (Waters/Gilmour) 3:29
5. One of My Turns (Waters) 3:37
6. Don’t Leave Me Now (Waters) 4:22
7. Another Brick in the Wall (Part Three) (Waters) 1:17
8. Goodbye Cruel World (Waters) 1:05

** Hidden Message

Side C

1. Hey You (Waters) 4:41
2. Is There Anybody Out There? (Waters) 2:40
3. Nobody Home (Waters) 3:25
4. Vera (Waters) 1:39
5. Bring the Boys Back Home (Waters) 0:51
6. Comfortably Numb (Waters/Gilmour) 6:49

Side D

1. The Show Must Go On (Waters) 1:37
2. In the Flesh (Waters) 4:17
3. Run Like Hell (Waters/Gilmour) 4:23
4. Waiting for the Worms (Waters) 3:56
5. Stop (Waters) 0:33
6. The Trial (Waters/Ezrin) 5:18
7. Outside the Wall (Waters) 1:42

Gesamt: 81:20 Minuten

Pink Floyd:

• David Gilmour: Guitars, Vocals, Bass Guitar, Fretless Bass – Hey You, Sequencer, Synthesizer, Clarinet, Percussion
• Nick Mason: Drums, Percussion
• Roger Waters: Bass Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer, Guitar
• Richard Wright: Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Clarinet, Pedalboard – Bass Pedals

Weitere Musiker:

• Joe Chemay: backing vocals
• Ron di Blasi: classical guitar on Is There Anybody Out There?
• Bob Ezrin: keyboards
• Stan Farber: backing vocals
• Fourth form music class, Islington Green School, London — backing vocals
• James Guthrie: percussion, Synthesiser on Empty Spaces (in collaboration with David Gilmour), sequencer, drums on The Happiest Days of Our Lives (in collaboration with Nick Mason)
• Jim Haas: backing vocals
• Bobbye Hall: percussion
• Bruce Johnston: backing vocals
• Jon Joyce: backing vocals
• Freddie Mandel: Hammond organ on In the Flesh? and In the Flesh
• Frank Marrocco: concertina
• Bleu Ocean: 35 New York drummers including Bleu Ocean – snare drums on Bring the Boys Back Home
• Jeff Porcaro: drums on Mother, marching snare drum on Bring the Boys Back Home
• Lee Ritenour: rhythm guitar on One of My Turns and acoustic guitar on Comfortably Numb
• Toni Tennille: backing vocals
• Trevor Veitch: mandolin
• Larry Williams: clarinet on Outside the Wall

Voices:

• Harry Waters: Goodbye Blue Sky – „Look mummy, there’s an aeroplane up in the sky“.
• US-Telefongesellschaft: One Of My Turns – „Ein R-Gespräch für Mrs. Floyd von Mr. Floyd. Werden Sie die Gebühren tragen?“
• Trudy Young: One Of My TurnS – „Oh my God! What a fabulous room. Are all these your guitars?“

Studios:

• Super Bear Studios: Miravel, France
• Britannia Recording Studios, Islington
• CBS: New York
• Producers Workshop: Los Angeles

Produktion: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour und Roger Waters

• Justin Dimma: engineering
• Bob Ezrin: co-producer, orchestra arrangement
• Nick Griffiths: engineering
• James Guthrie: co-producer, engineer, remastering producer
• Rick Hart: engineering
• Robert Hrycyna: engineering
• Michael Kamen: orchestra arrangement
• Darren McIntomney: engineering
• Patrice Queff: engineering
• Doug Sax: mastering and remastering

Artwork:

• Gerald Scarfe: sleeve design
• Roger Waters: Sleeve Design

Hidden Message:

Empty Spaces bei Minute 1:13: Roger Waters can be heard speaking when the track is played backwards: “Congratulations. You’ve just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont.” Then a voice in the background states: “Roger! Carolyne is on the phone!”. Old Pink soll Syd sein.

NICK MASON: At the time, people were always looking for messages in albums. So we thought: ‘Oh, well. We better do one.’” And although ‘The Wall’ isn’t exactly known for being a laugh a minute, this is one moment that offers a bit of comic relief; when played in reverse, the backward-masked bit says “Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message.” It’s complete nonsense.

Quelle: Nick Mason Discusses the Secret Message in Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’