“Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?” – Pink Floyd, “Goodbye Blue Sky”, The Wall, 1979Read more
The child talking about the airplanes in the sky in the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’ on Pink Floyd’s The Wall was Roger Waters’ 2 year old son Harry Waters.Read more
Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall,” specifically the track “Another Brick in the Wall (part 2),” was banned in South Africa because it was used to protest apartheid education.Read more
Pink Floyd’s THE WALL is designed as an endless loop, with the final track, “Outside the Wall,” ending with the words “Isn’t this where…”, and the album starting with “… we came in?”, and continuing the melody of the last song.Read more
Pink Floyd’s enormous The Wall live stage show was so elaborate, they could only play just 31 performances in five venues during 1980 & 1981.Read more
The lead singer from Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats played “Pink” in the 1982 Pink Floyd movie THE WALL.Read more
Toni Tennille, one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille, sang backup on Pink Floyd’s 1979 album THE WALL.Read more
The famous “ping” from Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” can be faintly heard in the background of Floyd’s 1979 song “Hey You” from THE WALL.Read more
On the 21st of July 1990, most of The Band — Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson, backed Sinead O’Connor on vocals & Roger Waters on guitar covering Pink Floyd’s “Mother” in The Wall Live in Berlin — commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.Read more
