Pink Floyd - The Wall

Starring: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves Director: Alan Parker Dvd Release: 5th June, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Limited Edition, PAL, Special Edition, Region 0 Encoding

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Pink Floyd is a British progressive band famous for its songwriting, harmonic classical rock compositions, bombastic style & elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd is one of rocks most successful acts, ranking seventh in number of albums sold worldwide. Pink Floyd formed in 1964 from an earlier band whose names included Sigma 6, T-Set, Megadeaths, The Screaming Abdabs, The Architectural Abdabs & The Abdabs. The band was again renamed The Pink Floyd Sound & then simply The Pink Floyd. The definite article was dropped by the time their debut album was released. Pink Floyd originally consisted of Bob Klose, Syd Barrett, Richard Wright, Roger Waters & Nick Mason. They covered rhythm & blues staples such as Louie, Louie. As Barrett started writing tunes more influenced by American surf music, psychedelic rock & British whimsy, humour & literature, the heavily jazz -oriented Klose departed & left a rather stable foursome. The band formed Blackhill Enterprises, a six-way business partnership with their managers, Peter Jenner & Andrew King. Posters Of Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 MGM film by British director Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist & bassist Roger Waters. Though Waters initially considered himself for the title role, the film ultimately starred Bob Geldof, whose character Pink was loosely based on the biographies of both Waters & Pink Floyd vocalist & guitarist Syd Barrett, both of whom were founding members of the band. The film also stars Kevin McKeon as the young Pink & includes brief appearances by Bob Hoskins & Joanne Whalley. // The film features music from the original Pink Floyd album, much of which was re-recorded by the band with additional orchestration, some with minor lyrical & musical changes. Three songs from the album were not included in the film, while two songs not present on the album were included in the film, one of which was composed especially for the movie by Roger Waters, while the other was originally recorded for the album but never released until the film version, although it had been performed in concert. Posters Of The Wall

By any rational measure, Alan Parkers cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyds The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant & superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes & psychological torment of Roger Waters great musical opus, & yet utterly devoid of the humour that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualise The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, & Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film thats as fascinating as it is flawed. The film is, for better & worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict, Parker indulging himself, & Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed & animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent & ego does not prevent The Wall from being a mesmerising film. Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof is a fine choice to play Waterss alter ego, an alienated, comfortably numb rock star whose psychosis manifests itself as an emotional wall between himself & the cold, cruel world. Weaving Waterss autobiographical details into his own jumbled vision, Parker ultimately fails to combine a narrative thread with experimental structure. Its a rich, bizarre, & often astonishing film that will continue to draw a following, but the real source of genius remains the music of Roger Waters. ,

Robert Frederick Zenon Bob Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter & humanitarian. In his 1986 autobiography Is That It?, Geldof notes that his surname is extremely rare in Ireland & first appeared with his grandfather, who immigrated from Belgium at the start of the twentieth century. Geldof first came to fame in the mid- 1970s as leader of the Boomtown Rats, a rock group closely linked with the punk movement. In 1978, they had their first Number 1 single with Rat Trap, which was the first new wave chart-topper in the UK. The follow-up, I Dont Like Mondays, was equally successful & also massively controversial, as Geldof wrote it in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer s attempted massacre at her school in San Diego, California at the beginning of 1979. The band wrote the song immediately & it was at Number 1 in the UK before the end of the year. Geldof quickly became known as a colourful spokesman for rock music. Their first appearance on Irelands Late Late Show led to complaints from viewers. Posters Of Pink Floyd

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Alan Parker is a guitarist & composer best known for his work in the band Blue Mink .Trained by Julian Bream at Londons Royal Academy of Music. Was a successful session guitarist in the late 60s also went to play with his own band The Congregation. Much of Parkers session work has gone uncredited but recently he has been named as the electric guitarist on Donovan s Hurdy Gurdy Man. He was composer Jerry Goldsmith s orchestrator for many years & was called on by Howard Shore to help him out with some of the music for Lord Of The Rings. Parker is now a successful composer for film & T,V. including the tune to ITNs News At Ten, Van Der Valk, Rhodes, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape & Coast for the BBC. He has worked with Donovan, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Dusty Springfield, Tony Bennett, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix & others. //www .bigjimsullivan .com/AlanParker .html Posters Of The Life Of David Gale

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