(You can also find the trailer for the film below.) That addition aside, what the soundtrack offers is a blistering live performance of one of Pink Floyd's best albums and even for those hardcore fans who already have the studio album and Waters' earlier 'Live in Berlin' version, this is well worth a listen.įor any of you who are not familiar with Waters' work outside of Pink Floyd, we've picked five highlights below as a handy guide. The track listing is, as you would expect, almost exactly the same as on the studio version, with one notable addition in the form of a song called 'The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes', a coda to 'Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)' dedicated to the man gunned down by London's Metropolitan Police at Stockwell tube station in 2005. Hot on the heels of the film, the soundtrack arrives this week (Friday November 20th) and features his band's performance of The Wall from start to finish, overseen by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.
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Just a week ago a film entitled Roger Waters: The Wall was released on DVD and Blu-ray, but rather than a regular 'live concert' kind of affair, instead the film – directed by Sean Evans – is part concert film, part road movie and part documentary examining Waters' troubled journey to come to terms with the death of his father, something that dominates the lyrics on Pink Floyd's seminal album.
In 2010, Waters embarked on one of the biggest tours in history – both in terms of the number of dates and sheer, staggering logistics – taking The Wall on a worldwide tour spanning three years and 220 shows on four continents. In between, Waters has undertaken a number of live tours – two of which have also produced live albums - performing many of the Pink Floyd songs he wrote during his time with the prog-rock legends, including a poignant performance of The Wall in its entirety in Berlin in 1990. In addition to those three LPs he has also written an opera named Ça Ira (There is Hope) and two soundtracks – one for Roy Battersby's documentary The Body, the other for Jimmy Murakami's superb animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs' post-nuclear graphic novel When the Wind Blows. Best known to most as the bass player and one of the principal songwriters in Pink Floyd, Roger Waters' subsequent solo career since his departure from the band in 1985 hasn't been one of the most prolific, producing just three studio albums, but when compared with the other Pink Floyd members it is certainly one of the most varied.