Hey you! It’s time for Pop Screen to tackle one of the earliest, most expensive and most flamboyant product of the 1980s crossover between music video and cinema: Pink Floyd – The Wall. Based closely on Roger Waters’s semi-autobiographical songs, director Alan Parker and animator Gerald Scarfe produced an epic fantasy of isolation, trauma, totalitarianism and grief that caused no less a figure than Steven Spielberg to mutter “what the f*** was that?” at its Cannes premiere.
This week, we’re bringing the boys back home as Graham and Aidan reconvene to tackle this iconic and iconoclastic work. Topics include the album’s original reception, Pink Floyd’s status in the post-punk era, the unexpected cameos in the ‘Young Lust’ scene and the influence of Syd Barrett on the film’s central character Pink, played by Bob Geldof. If you listen all the way through, there’s even a cliffhanger ending…
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