Many types of walls are encountered throughout one’s journey through life, but none will have an impact more significant towards life than an invisible wall generated within one’s daunting thoughts driven by their certainty. As lyrically expressed through the work of Roger Waters, the lead singer and composer of the international famous Rock group, Pink Floyd. His 1979 album “The Wall” followed by a visual interpretation, musical production film directed by Alan Parker in 1982, “Pink Floyd The Wall.” The production and lyrics were based largely on the Author's life growing up fatherless and as an adult, living through the consequences of his unresolved childhood feelings. The foundation to the storyline took place in the era of the British …show more content…
After his father’s unfortunate death while serving in the British army in 1944, his mother moved him and his brother to Cambridge, which is where Roger was raised. Roger Waters’ lyrics for “The Wall” was influenced by his own awareness of his out of control behavior guided by his inner insecurities and occurrences of his childhood mishaps, during a concert Incident with a fan (Hiatt, p50-57). “Pink Floyd show at a Montreal stadium, a younger and far less cheerful Roger Waters had an infamous encounter with another overzealous fan” (Hiatt). Moreover, “one kid climbed up the netting separating the band from the crowd. Waters spat on him” (Hiatt). As predicted by music fans, some of the best deepest lyrics are the ones that are motivated from an artists’ life …show more content…
As a fatherless five month-old baby his mother seemed to take on his wellbeing on her own. Waters’ lyrics expressed her emotional mission as domineering. Feeding to his unrecognized pain an emptiness that developed as a child and accompanied him through adulthood, which was visually demonstrated through the imagery of the musical. Starting with the realism of not having his father through the post war horrors and the false visions of his father spending quality time with him as a child. The loneliness was crystal clear through the lyrics and gut balling scenes of staging. Pink grow up to a man who avoided the norm of the world by building his mental illusion of a wall. A wall that would eventually drive him insane as he isolates himself from the real world. This inhibiting wall was all dressed up through the use of drugs, sex escapades and his repeated dreadful thoughts nourishing his