The Making of Pink Floyd The Wall

Description

Pink Floyd's The Wall is one of the most iconic and imaginative albums in the history of rock music, endlessly discussed and dissected. It is loosely based on the life and experiences of Roger Waters and the stage performances and film were created in close collaboration with Gerald Scarfe. Scarfe and Waters worked together on the new version of the stage show. Gerald retains all the imagery and from this massive archive the book includes hundreds of photographs of the creation, staging and filming of The Wall as well as the live stage performances. In addition, Roger Waters allowed us to reproduce all the interviews and texts associated with the production of the album, the stage performances and the film. This is the authorised, definitive book of The Wall.

After a brief period at London's Royal College of Art, Gerald Scarfe established himself as a satirical cartoonist, working for Punch and Private Eye during the early 1960s. He has had exhibitions worldwide, 50 one-man shows, has designed sets and costumes for plays, operas and musicals; written, directed and appeared in many films and documentaries; and published numerous books of his work. Scarfe has been political cartoonist for The Sunday Times for over 40 years, has worked for The New Yorker for 17 years and received a CBE in 2008. He has had a long association with Pink Floyd - as the designer and director of animation for the Floyd live show Wish You Were Here in 1974, for The Wall between 1970-73 and for Roger Waters' The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking in 1984.

This visual feast of a book chronicles one of the most productive collaborations between an artist and a band to date... -- Arthur House * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *