Pink Floyd: Bricks in the Wall

by Karl Dallas

Book Overview

A look back at the popular rock group features exclusive interviews with Roger Waters and other Pink Floyd members and discusses the misconceptions about the group's albums, lyrics, and concerts.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561711322
• ISBN13: 9781561711321
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A good history of Pink Floyd

I have always enjoyed listening to Pink Floyd and when I came across this book the first time, I could not put it down until I was done reading it. It is a wonderful look at the history of Pink Floyd. This book takes you from the very beginning all they way up to around when Momentary Lapse of Reason was releaced and gives you how and why each album was made and the band member's thoughts about each song.

An interesting perspective

This is not a typical historical biography of the band like we are seeing released these days. Instead, the book complements some of the other better books on the subject such as Miles and Schaffner by offering insight on society and its influence on the band (hence the title). For example, it talks about how the MI5 and CIA originally studied drug abuse as a mind control method and how that research indirectly led to the band's rise and Syd's collapse. Or how the punk movement in the mid '70s influneced Animals. It ends in 1986 by giving an even-handed view of the Waters - Gilmour situation. If you can get ahold of it, I recommend it, especially to the completist. Non die-hards might find it a bit rambling and would be better off looking elsewhere.