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The song won Waters the 1983 British Academy Award for Best Original Song for its appearance in the Wall film. [20] "Part 2" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group. [citation needed] It appeared at number 384 on Rolling Stone ' s 2010 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [21] The lyrics attracted ...
The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records. It is a rock opera which explores Pink, a jaded rock star, as he constructs a psychological "wall" of social isolation. The Wall topped the US charts for 15 weeks and reached number three in the UK. It ...
"Young Lust" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released in 1979. [4] [5] It is the ninth track on the band's eleventh studio album The Wall (1979).[4] [5] The lyrics to the song are about the band throwing themselves into the headlong of hedonism, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
The first two songs are taken from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, a concept album Waters wrote simultaneously with The Wall, and later recorded solo; and The Final Cut, a 1983 Pink Floyd album. "Your Possible Pasts" was a song originally intended for The Wall that later appeared on The Final Cut. "The Trial"
The Wall tells the story of Pink, an embittered and alienated rock star. As told through the song "Mother", part of Pink's sense of alienation comes from being raised by an overprotective single mother, who lost her husband, Pink's father, in World War II. The song narrates a conversation by Pink (voiced by Waters) and his mother (voiced by ...
Additionally, the song contains some references to founding Pink Floyd member, Syd Barrett. [5] The song was written after an argument between Gilmour, Waters, and co-producer Bob Ezrin during the production of The Wall in which Gilmour and Ezrin challenged Waters to come up with one more song for the album. Waters then wrote "Nobody Home" and ...
The music was written by David Gilmour (one of three songs on The Wall for which Gilmour is credited as a co-writer), and the lyrics were written by Roger Waters. Waters provides the vocals (except for Gilmour's multitracked harmonies singing "Run, run, run, run,").
For the 1990 large-scale concert The Wall – Live in Berlin, vocals for this song were provided by Joni Mitchell, with visuals largely reprised from the film version. Roger Waters' 2010–13 tour The Wall Live uses the song to depict a metaphorical "cultural bombing".