PINK FLOYD THE WALL 2U-2U-3U-3U MATRIX 1ST PRESSING

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Apr 15, 2009 Sold Date

Apr 5, 2009 Start Date

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I have a very large Personal Record collection which I’ve collected for well over 45 years and have been Involved with Vinyl Records with work as well, I worked for Kelly records and downtown records in Brentwood Essex back in the 70’s where I picked up a lot of RARE albums. I also worked at DECCA for sometime and again managed to get my hands on some beauties. I will be putting up for Auction lots of rare albums & some not so rare on eBay in the coming years-----In all sorts of condition-------but nothing which is unplayable. Some of the albums which I will be listing are Pink Floyd-DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (BLUE TRIANGLE), Pretty Things- SF SORROW, Lots of Rolling Stones & Beatles, Ten Years After, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull and many--many more.

THE WALL by PINK FLOYD

Recorded at superbear---France---Meravel

CBS New York

Between April & November 1979

ORIGINAL UK 1st PRESSING

ON EMI HARVEST

WITH EARLY MATRIX

SIDE ONE SHSP 4111 A-2U SIDE TWO SHSP 4111B-2U

SIDE THREE SHSP 4112 A-3U SIDE FOUR SHSP 4112 B-3U

ALSO COMES WITH EARLY MOTHERS

SIDE ONE XTL 4-CDO SIDE TWO TML-M 2-GDH

SIDE THREE XTL 4

SIDE FOUR TML-X 2-AT(CROSSED OUT M)

The Wall is a rock opera presented as a double album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late 1979. It was subsequently performed live, with elaborate theatrical effects, and made into a film.

Following in the footsteps of their previous albums, The Wall is a concept album — specifically, it deals largely with the theme of isolation from one's peers. The concept was largely inspired by the band's 1977 tour promoting the album Animals, with regards to an incident where Roger Waters' frustration with the audience reached a point where Waters spat in the face of a fan who was attempting to climb on stage; this, in turn, led him to lament that such a wall exists. With its significantly darker theme, The Wall featured a notably harsher and more theatrical sound than their previous releases.

The Wall is a rock opera that centres on the character "Pink". Largely based on Waters' personal life, Pink struggles in life from an early age, having lost his father in war ("Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)", abused by teachers ("The Happiest Days of Our Lives"), nurtured by an overprotective mother ("Mother"), and deserted by his wife later on ("Don't Leave Me Now") — all of which factored into Pink's mental isolation from society, figuratively referred to as "The Wall".

In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed The Wall as #87 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

In 1977, Pink Floyd were promoting Animals with their In the Flesh tour. There are two different accounts of what happened at the show in Montreal, Canada that inspired Waters to write "The Wall". The first is from The Wall Live booklet where Waters states that a fan was trying to climb the netting between the audience and the band. The second is from Nick Mason's book "Inside Out". He states that a fan was yelling at Roger for them to play "Careful with that Axe, Eugene". In the end of both accounts Waters spits in the face of the fan. The album was recorded at four studios over eight months, owing to English tax laws and to benefit from the cheaper recording costs in the South of France. Tensions between Waters and the band were increasing significantly, largely due to his dominance over the rest of the band. During the recording, Waters dismissed Richard Wright, and told him to leave immediately after The Wall was finished, arguing that Wright was not contributing much, in part owing to a cocaine addiction. Waters claimed that David Gilmour and Nick Mason had supported his decision to fire Wright, but in 2000, Gilmour stated that he and Mason were against Wright's dismissal. In his book Inside Out, Nick Mason claims that Wright was fired because Columbia Records had offered Waters a substantial bonus to finish the album in time for a 1979 release. Since Wright refused to return early from his summer holiday, Waters wanted to dismiss Wright. However, he returned for their live performances as a paid musician.

For "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)", Pink Floyd needed to record a school choir, so they approached music teacher Alun Renshaw of Islington Green School, around the corner from their Britannia Row Studios. The chorus was overdubbed twelve times to give the impression that the choir was larger. The choir were not allowed to hear the rest of the song after singing the chorus. Though the school received a lump sum payment of £1000, there was no contractual arrangement for royalties. Under 1996 UK copyright law, they became eligible, and after choir members were tracked down by royalties agent Peter Rowan of RBL Music, through the website Friends Reunited, they claimed the money. Music industry professionals estimated that each student would be owed around £500.

Originally released on Columbia Records in the U.S. and Harvest Records in the UK, the Wall was then re-released as a digitally remastered CD in 1994 in the UK on EMI. In 1997, Columbia Records issued an updated remaster in the United States, Canada, Australia, South America and Japan. For The Wall's 20th Anniversary in April 2000, Capitol Records in the U.S. and EMI in Canada, Australia, South America and Japan re-released the 1997 remaster with the artwork from the EMI Europe remaster. The Wall was the first Pink Floyd album since 1967's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn whose cover was not done by Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis. Instead, Gerald Scarfe designed the cover and gatefold sleeve. David Gilmour recalls Storm Thorgerson falling out with Roger Waters over issues such as the credit for the Animals sleeve design.

The album's overriding themes are the causes and implications of self-imposed isolation, symbolized by the metaphorical wall of the title. The album's songs create a very loose storyline sketching events in the life of the protagonist, Pink. Pink loses his father as a child (Waters’ own father was killed in Anzio during World War II), is smothered by his overprotective mother, and is oppressed at school by tyrannical, abusive teachers, each of these traumas becoming "another brick in the wall". As an adult Pink becomes a rock star, his relationships are marred by infidelity and outbursts of violence. As his marriage crumbles, Pink finishes building the wall and completes his isolation from human contact.

Pink's mindset deteriorates behind his freshly completed wall, with his personal crisis culminating during an onstage performance. Hallucinating, Pink believes that he is a fascist dictator, and his concerts are like Neo-Nazi rallies where he sets his men on fans he considers unworthy, only to have his conscience rebel at this and put himself on trial, his inner judge ordering him to "tear down the wall" in order to open himself to the outside world, and apologizing to his closest friends who are hurt most by his self-isolation. At this point the album's end runs into its beginning with the closing words "Isn't this where..." the first song on the album, "In the Flesh?" begins with the words "...we came in?" – With a continuation of the melody of the last song, "Outside the Wall" – hinting at the cyclical nature of Waters’ theme.

The LP's sleeve art and custom picture labels by Gerald Scarfe tied in with the album's concept. Side one had a quarter of the wall erected and a sketch of the teacher. Side two saw half of the wall erected and a sketch of the wife. Side three had three-quarters of the wall erected and a sketch of the character of Pink, while side four had the wall completely erected and a sketch of the prosecutor. Bob Ezrin played a major part in taking Waters’ demo material and clarifying the storyline by writing a script, which even called for additional songs to complete the plot.

A film version of The Wall was released in 1982 entitled Pink Floyd the Wall, directed by Alan Parker and starring Bob Geldof. The screenplay was written by Roger Waters. The film features music from the original album, much of which was re-recorded by the band with additional orchestration, some with minor lyrical and musical changes.

Originally the film was intended to be intercut with concert footage and a few of the live shows were actually filmed, but subsequently not used in the film at all. Footage from these concerts has appeared on different websites from time to time and on YouTube. However, an official release of this footage by Pink Floyd has not been authorized other than what was used in the documentary Behind the Wall.

Immensely successful upon release, The Wall quickly jumped to #1 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S in its fourth week (it debuted at #53) and #3 in the U.K… Its worldwide sales are estimated at 15 million copies (30 million units), and in the U.S. it has achieved 23 times platinum (for sales of 11.5 million double-disc sets; statistics mistakenly identifying The Wall as the best selling multiple-disc album of all-time in the U.S. and third best-selling album by any artist in the U.S. do not take into account that double albums count as two platinum sales), and is their second best-selling album in the U.S. after The Dark Side of the Moon. It was among the most popular albums of the early 1980s, to the extent that film director Alan Parker created a film based on it. The album had a string of hit singles, with "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" being their only song to hit #1 on the Billboard.

In addition to its commercial success, critical reception of The Wall was, and remains, mostly positive. Carlo Twist of Blender gave it 5 stars out of a possible 5, stating that, "For all its pomp and lofty ambition, there’s a streak of almost punk-rock venom within, not to mention some of the band’s best humping, thumping heavy rock." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music Guide was slightly more critical, but nevertheless said that, "its seamless surface, blending melodic fragments and sound effects, makes the musical shortcomings and questionable lyrics easy to ignore." Kurt Loder of Rolling Stone remarked, "The Wall is the most startling rhetorical achievement in the group's singular, thirteen-year career." That same magazine later ranked The Wall at #87 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The Wall would also be included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

After Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, a legal battle ensued over the rights to the name "Pink Floyd" and its material. In the end, Waters retained the right to use The Wall, and its material and imagery (save for three songs which Gilmour co-wrote: "Young Lust", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell"), as his name has been most closely associated with the album. This meant that the three remaining members' 1987–1990 and 1994 tours under the name Pink Floyd required payments to Waters.

Waters staged a concert performance of The Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on 21 July 1990 both to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and as a fundraising effort for the World War Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. This performance featured guest artists including Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Sinéad O'Connor and Van Morrison, as well as members of The Band. This performance also differed from previous shows in that some songs from the original album and Pink Floyd concert version were omitted, others were slightly modified, and one Waters solo song, "The Tide Is Turning" was substituted for "Outside The Wall" as the concluding song.

Side one
# Title
1.     "In the Flesh?"
2.     "The Thin Ice"
3.     "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)"
4.     "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"
5.     "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
6.     "Mother"

Side two

# Title
1.     "Goodbye Blue Sky"
2.     "Empty Spaces"
3.     "Young Lust"
4.     "One of My Turns"
5.     "Don't Leave Me Now"
6.     "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)"
7.     "Goodbye Cruel World"

Side three

# Title
1.     "Hey You"
2.     "Is There Anybody Out There?"
3.     "Nobody Home"
4.     "Vera"
5.     "Bring the Boys Back Home"
6.     "Comfortably Numb"

Side four

# Title
1.     "The Show Must Go On"
2.     "In the Flesh"
3.     "Run Like Hell"
4.     "Waiting for the Worms"
5.     "Stop"
6.     "The Trial"
7.     "Outside the Wall"

* Roger Waters

Vocals, bass guitar, co-producer, synthesiser, electric guitar, acoustic guitar,
Sleeve design

* David Gilmour —

Guitars, vocals, co-producer, bass guitar, sequencer, synthesiser, clavinet, Percussion

* Richard Wright —

Piano, organ, synthesiser, clavinet, bass pedals

* Nick Mason —

Drums, percussion

The Album I have listed today is The Wall by Pink Floyd. This is in Excellent Condition!!!, this really is a superb piece of vinyl that plays absolutely fantastic. On initial inspection both vinyls look as new!. But when angled to light---some light hairline scratches can be seen (not many) I would have to say, still plays AWESOME!!!! There is no sticking, Jumps, but there are some clicks on intro to Track One--Side One on the quite part, but after that this side plays superb with only the odd bit of static and static tic and static crackle. Side Two plays much better with no clicks or jumps but again allow for some static and static tics and static crackle. Side Three I did hear a couple of clicks, some static tics and static crackle but plays very well. Side Four plays well again with some static tics, but on last track there is a bit of interference for a few revolutions. Over all album plays superb! and in my opinion still as outstanding sound quality!!!!!!

I play tested album on two top quality decks and also using headphones to get a more accurate and better idea how vinyl sounds. Over all Vinyl retains a shiny gloss and lays flat on turntable with no warping and plays fantastic through out, and in my opinion still as a superb sound! Audio still comes through loud and clear, but please allow for the odd bit of static and maybe the odd static tic, and please remember this vinyl as hardly been played and as been stored for a long time. A NICE PLAYABLE COPY!!!!!!!!!

Labels are clean & bright with no spider marks, no spindle ware, VERY CLEAN INDEED!!!!!.

Cover is the Glossy Garrod & Lofthouse which is in excellent condition with no ring ware that I can see, but as some minor creasing on back & front of cover, the spine is strong thick and solid, but as some discolouring to spine and edge of spine, the edges are still in nice condition with only a little storage ware but not much that I can see, and for 30 years old not bad considering its age. Inside of cover is still in great condtion with only minimal creasing.

Inner sleeves are clean and still intact with no ware.

Please check my photos to see for yourself. Please bid with confidence as I do have a returns policy if you are in any way dissatisfied with goods supplied.

ALBUM WILL BE SENT IN RECORD MAILER WITH THREE OR FOUR CARDBOARD STIFFENERS AND POLY SLEEVE. I ONLY DESPATCH WEEKDAYS! (NOT WEEKENDS) AND SEND 1ST CLASS RECORDED DELIVERY AFTER PAYMENT RECEIVED. WILL GIVE POSTAGE DISCOUNT ON ALL MULTIPLE PURCHASES.

I have tried to give my honest opinion describing the condition of the item listed and will endeavour to resolve any issues you may have, but will always give refund if you are in anyway not satisfied with the product Supplied!