Pink floyd the wall album no commercials

Gerry is a famous cartoonist whose drawings IвЂ™d long admired in Private Eye and The Sunday Times. He suggested that I come back the next day and meet with Gerald Scarfe, who had collaborated with him on the design of the live show. Teacher (Alex McAvoy) and Young Pink (Kevin McKeon) These were raw and angry вЂ“ RogerвЂ™s primal scream, which to this day remains at the heart of the piece. He demonstrated the evolution of the work with snippets of original demo tapes. As we sat in his kitchen talking over the history of the piece, it was obvious that he wasnвЂ™t the typical zonked out rock star. I had been in New York when the concerts were performed at the Nassau Coliseum, and I remember reading about it in the New York Times whilst filming Fame.ДЄ casual telephone conversation with Bob Mercer, an executive with EMI, led to me meeting with Roger Waters, who lived nearby in Richmond. The whole album had a narrative sense вЂ“ although, in those days, what exactly the sense was, I canвЂ™t say that I, nor anyone else, really understood. IвЂ™d been a Floyd devotee since *A Saucerful Of Secrets and over the years had played *Dark Side Of The Moon so often it ended up scratched and unplayable in its vinyl manifestation.ДЄnd as I listened to *The Wall album it was clear that it had dramatic possibilities. I first came to Pink FloydвЂ™s album The Wall as a fan. Or maybe, brilliant caricaturist that Gerry is himself, he probably thought the make-up manвЂ™s draftsmanship rather inferior. He had spent his life being cruel to others in his own cartoon work and probably never experienced anyone depicting him in this way. It was curious for us all to observe Gerry Scarfe look at the drawing, tossing his head backwards as if snorting a nostril-full of snuff, and seeing absolutely no humour whatsoever in the drawing. It was labeled вЂњRoger, the school bully and his nasty pal InkyвЂќ. It depicted Roger and Gerry as two small, scowling, grubby public schoolboys in school uniform, socks at their ankles, catapults protruding from pockets and fingers disappearing up their bogeyed noses. Half way through filming, the chief make-up artist Pete Frampton вЂ“ quite an accomplished caricaturist вЂ“ pinned a drawing of Roger Waters and Gerald Scarfe up onto the studio wall at Pinewood. The American director Joe Losey once said, вЂњBeware of a cozy British film set, because often, in the creative process, вЂnicenessвЂ™ can lead to disaster.вЂќ The film of The Wall was not cozy and niceness was in short supply, but curiously we did some extremely good and original work. But the making of the film was too miserable an exercise for me to gain any pleasure from looking back at the process.

ItвЂ™s not that IвЂ™m ashamed or displeased with the result. To be honest I should never have made Pink Floyd The Wall вЂ“ it was a bizarre accumulation of events that left me with the directorial responsibilities. PINK FLOYD THE WALL The making of the film, brick by brick

Pink floyd the wall album no commercials