The Wall to receive epic radio treatment
Pink Floyd’s famous concept album, The Wall, is still recognized today as a crowning achievement in its catalog - of course, next to the likes of Dark Side Of The Moon.
Nearly 30 years after its initial release, the album is again making news - this time in the form of a radio special to be aired in the United Kingdom on August 25th (the day before my birthday, hint hint):
UK based digital radio station Planet Rock (one of our favourites!) is airing a two-hour special on Pink Floyd’s 1979 classic, The Wall. Broadcast on Monday, August 25th, at 7pm BST, “BUILDING THE WALL” promises interviews with band members, and also Gerald Scarfe, who created the iconic artwork for the album. In the special, Gerald discusses his designs for the album, stage show and film as well his time working with Pink Floyd.
As for the “iconic artwork”, the album’s cover is easily part of many notable sets of art associated with the English prog-rock quartet - Dark Side’s prism, the pig above Battersea Power Station on Animals, and Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’s kaleidoscope rendering of a Syd Barrett-era Floyd are a few other of music’s more historic images.
No doubt that lots of listeners will be tuning in to both capture a fragment of history in the making. After all, The Wall, alongside The Who’s Tommy, introduced us to the idea of a “Rock Opera”.
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