"I shall attempt to sing with poor, miserable, f- up Roger from all those years ago," he said, introducing the song "Mother," in which he did a duet with a video projection of his younger self from the 1980 tour. Having already undertaken a similar project around Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album a few years ago, he had his chops.Īt one point he described the production as an experiment in time travel. album of all time behind Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" - with all the necessary frills. Waters lavished the songs from the rock classic - with 30 million copies sold, the best-selling U.S. Over the course of the two-hour set, in which the four-sided record was played in its entirety, an actual 36-foot cardboard wall was gradually built (and eventually knocked down) in front of the musicians, hiding them completely from view for a good chunk of the program. Within the first few minutes, pyrotechnics had ignited onstage, large nightmarish marionettes had appeared from the rafters and World War II warplanes buzzed overhead. On Friday, the unreasonably fit Waters, 67, and a group of veteran backing musicians dressed in uniform black filled the considerable venue with high-end sounds and visual effects, bringing back many of the show's key elements to bolster songs like "Another Brick in the Wall" and "Young Lust." It's a virtual re-creation of Pink Floyd's original arena rock show from 1980 (the album was released the year before) in its original form, a multimedia concert that practically laid the groundwork for the rock musicals currently hogging New York's theater marquees.
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