![]() ![]() In its day, The Wall, which came out in 1979, was a colossal commercial success, especially considering it's a mostly autobiographical work about separation, pain, and suffering, beginning with the death of Waters' father in World War II when Waters was 5 months old. (Tickets for the Philadelphia shows, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, were announced as sellouts last spring, but additional seats are for sale.) "I'm an optimist," the 67-year-old British songwriter says by phone from his home on Long Island, N.Y., during a brief break in the tour, which began in Canada in September and is likely to carry on even longer than its last scheduled date in Manchester, England, in June. Back in the late 1970s when Roger Waters conceived Pink Floyd's The Wall, the band's landmark double-album about isolation and psychological torment - with its rebellious cry, "We don't need no education!" - the bass player says he was "a frightened young man."īut these days, Waters, who will bring the spectacularly staged The Wall Live world tour to the Wells Fargo Center for three shows this week, sees his magnum opus in more positive terms. ![]()
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