Roger Waters The Wall, the eponymous soundtrack to the globally acclaimed feature film by Roger Waters and Sean Evans, will be released by Columbia / Legacy Recordings on November 20, 2015. Available physically on 2CD, 3LP vinyl, and digitally, the set captures Waters’ sold-out 2010-2013 “The Wall Live” tour, the first complete staging of the classic Pink Floyd concept album since 1990 and is currently available for pre-order at RogerWaters.com. A tour-de-force of rock & roll stagecraft anchored in a powerful message of peace and compassion, “The Wall Live” became a must-see concert event for music fans everywhere. It played to over 4.5 million people at more than 200 shows across four continents, making it the most successful worldwide tour by a solo artist in history.
Roger Waters The Wall is produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck, Paul McCartney) and offers an exhilarating listening experience for generations to enjoy. It is the ultimate concert souvenir – not only for the fans who saw the show, but for those who weren’t there or who may be discovering “The Wall” for the first time.
Roger Waters The Wall also serves as a companion piece to the feature film, ROGER WATERS THE WALL. Directed by Sean Evans and Roger Waters, ROGER WATERS THE WALL fuses the epic and the personal to operate on three levels simultaneously: as an immersive concert experience; as a road movie of Waters’ reckoning with the impact of war on his own family; and as a stirring antiwar film about the human cost of conflict. The film premiered in a “one night only” global cinema presentation in September, drawing hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide.
Originally released in 1979, Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was the band’s first narrative concept album. Waters drew from personal history to chart the life and times of the central character, a mentally disintegrating rock star haunted by the wartime death of the father he never knew. The album’s thematic content and musical mastery, exemplified by worldwide chart-topper “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” and radio staples “Run Like Hell” and “Comfortably Numb,” struck a chord with audiences worldwide. Pink Floyd’s subsequent 1980-81 tour for the album was unprecedented in its use of sets and theatrics, but the scale of production limited it to 31 dates in just four cities. “The Wall” wouldn’t be seen again until 1990, when Waters and an all-star cast performed a benefit production on the site of the no-man’s-land that had until recently divided West and East Germany. Twenty years later, concertgoers had the opportunity to experience “The Wall” anew, and millions of fans affirmed that its message and music remain potent and relevant as ever. With Roger Waters The Wall, that opportunity lives on.
The film, ROGER WATERS THE WALL, will be released on DVD, Blu-Ray, Digital Download, and 2-disc Blu-Ray Special Edition by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Roger Waters – Roger Waters The Wall 2CD/3LP VINYL / DIGITAL
(release date: November 20)
Disc 1
1. In the Flesh?
2. The Thin Ice
3. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1
4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives
5. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
6. The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes
7. Mother
8. Goodbye Blue Sky
9. Empty Spaces
10. What Shall We Do Now?
11. Young Lust
12. One of My Turns
13. Don’t Leave Me Now
14. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3
15. Last Few Bricks
16. Goodbye Cruel World
Disc 2
1. Hey You
2. Is There Anybody Out There?
3. Nobody Home
4. Vera
5. Bring the Boys Back Home
6. Comfortably Numb
7. The Show Must Go On
8. In The Flesh
9. Run Like Hell
10. Waiting for the Worms
11. Stop
12. The Trial
13. Outside the Wall
Soundtrack band members
Vocals, Guitar and Bass: Roger Waters
Guitars: Dave Kilminster
Guitars: Snowy White
Guitars: G.E. Smith
Keyboards: Jon Carin
Hammond & Piano: Harry Waters
Drums: Graham Broad
Vocals: Robbie Wyckoff
Background Vocals: Jon Joyce
Background Vocals: Pat Lennon
Background Vocals: Mark Lennon
Background Vocals: Kipp Lennon
Columbia Records (Sony Music / Legacy) is blij de release aan te kondigen van de 2CD/3Vinyl versie van ‘Roger Waters The Wall’. De soundtrack van de gelijknamige tourfilm die deels concert / deels documentaire is. De 2CD/3LP bevat een uitgebreidere registratie van het concert (met oa een nieuw nummer). De tour - de eerste live opvoering van het album sinds 1990 - liep van 2010 tot ’13, was volledig uitverkocht en werd bijgewoond door 4,5 miljoen mensen tijdens meer dan 200 concerten (wat er de meest succesvolle tour van een solo artiest aller tijden van maakt). Het ideeëngoed achter The Wall is een nog steeds erg actueel anti-oorlogsstatement wat maakt dat steeds weer nieuwe generaties The Wall blijven ontdekken. Opmerkelijk is ook dat Radiohead/Beck/McCartney producer Nigel Godrich achter de knoppen zat.
Uit op 20 November via Sony Music.
