Us and Them: The Band Divorce Behind Pink Floyd's The Wall
About this episode
This episode explores the tumultuous creation of Pink Floyd's The Wall and the conflicts within the band.
It started with literal spit! Roger Waters, spitting on a fan mid-concert in 1977. That moment was the inspiration behind one of rock's most ambitious concept albums, Pink Floyd’s The Wall. In this episode of the Behind The Song podcast, Janda dives into the chaotic making of the album, the four-city stage show too expensive to take anywhere else, and the courtroom battle over who actually got to be Pink Floyd — including the pettiest lawsuit workaround in rock history, involving an inflatable pig! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
People in this episode
Host: Janda
Topics covered
- Pink Floyd
- The Wall
- rock history
- band dynamics
- music production
- lawsuits
Keywords
- Pink Floyd
- Roger Waters
- The Wall
- rock music
- band divorce
- lawsuit
- inflatable pig
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Pink Floyd
Products: inflatable pig
Books & works: Pink Floyd’s The Wall
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