The BBC produced, in 2012, a program telling the story of "the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover "burning man" Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs' construction." The video is below, but if you buy the DVD you apparently get a bunch of extra footage.
Remastered song Wish You Were Here:
Remastered full album:
Here's the trailer for the BBC "Story of" program - full program is beneath it:
Remastered full album:
Here's the trailer for the BBC "Story of" program - full program is beneath it:
The full "Story Of":
Bonus: here's a long-lost, recently-rediscovered version of the title song featuring a solo from the French “Grandfather of Jazz Violinists” Stéphane Grappelli. If for some reason you don't want to hear the whole thing, the violin part starts at ~ 3:08:
Here's the story of how a missing piano track was re-added during the remastering:
More on the missing piano here.
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Roger Waters conducting a Kids Rehearsal for Another Brick in the Wall.
The album is outstanding. The music is outstanding. Too bad Roger Waters is a vile anti-Semite.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly was easier in pre-internet days to like entertainers - their assholeness was so much less visible.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite albums of all time!
ReplyDeleteI still have the stickers...somewhere.