The Wall

:For the movie based on the album, see Pink Floyd The Wall (film).

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The Wall is a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd. Hailed by critics and fans as one of Pink Floyd's best albums (along with Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here), the album is known as a rock and roll classic, and its morbid, depressing anthems have inspired many contemporary rock musicians.

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Rock opera - Concept album - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Wish You Were Here

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Roger Waters was inspired to create the album during a 1977 concert tour for Animals, dubbed Pink Floyd - In The Flesh. In Montreal, a fan's disruptive behaviour resulted in Waters spitting in the fan's face. Immediately disgusted with himself, Waters came up with the idea of building a wall between him and the audience, an idea which would later develop into the album.

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Roger Waters - 1977 - Animals - Montreal

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All of the songs were penned by Roger Waters with the exceptions of "Young Lust", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" which were co-written by David Gilmour and "The Trial", which was co-written by Bob Ezrin.

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Roger Waters - Young Lust - Comfortably Numb - Run Like Hell - David Gilmour

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The album has been certified 23 times platinum and sits in third place on the list of best-selling albums ever in the US and hit #1 on the Billboard Album Charts in 1980. Originally released on Columbia Records in the US and Harvest Records in the UK, The Wall was then re-released as a digitally remastered CD in 1994 in the UK on EMI. Columbia issued the remastered CD in 1997 in the US and rest of the world. For The Walls 20th Anniversary in early 2000, Capitol Records in the US and EMI for the rest of the world outside the US re-released the 1997 remastered CD.

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Platinum - List of best-selling albums - Billboard - 1980 - Columbia Records - Harvest Records - CD - 1994 - EMI - 1997 - Capitol Records

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In 1998 Q magazine readers voted The Wall the 65th greatest album of all time.

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1998 - ''Q'' magazine

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In 2001, the Canadian alternative country band Luther Wright and the Wrongs released Rebuild the Wall, a track-for-track reimagining of The Wall as a country album.

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2001 - Canadian - Alternative country - Luther Wright and the Wrongs

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