![]() ![]() Thinly disguised as the story of the character of Pink, the album details – among other themes – Waters’ disenchantment with the music business and what his beloved band had become: a money making machine grossing millions of dollars a night. In many ways, his solo career can be seen to start with Pink Floyd’s magnum opus, The Wall (1980). Waters alienated critics and fans, clashed with band members, and eventually punched out the very man staring back from the mirror, resulting in a silence which has held it’s breath up until now. It blew Pink Floyd out of the rock clubs and polytechnics and into arenas and stadiums, and also set in motion the mechanisms within the band that would lead to their ultimate demise. ![]() The album that the single had heralded, The Dark Side of the Moon (1972), came to embody all that was admirable about the excess of 70’s rock – but also all that was despicable and alienated the very same thing. It was not drugs that fried Roger Waters, but the very stuff he sang about on his band’s biggest hit ‘Money’. In some ways, his retreat from the public eye seemed to mirror his former bandmate Syd Barrett’s slow descent into oblivion, but where Barrett was a casualty of the 1960’s, Waters was wounded by the very decade he epitomised – the 1970’s. For a good thirty five years, Roger Waters seemed the man least likely to. ![]()
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