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The Wall

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The Wall

The Wall is the last album by the rock band Pink Floyd. The hit songs in the album are "Young Lust", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell". The album sold 30 million copies worldwide.

1 About
2 Tracks
3 Awards & Certifications
4 Chart Toppers
5 Credits
6 Trivia
7 Shop
8 Reviews
9 External Links

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About

The Wall was released on November 30, 1979 under Columbia Records. The album reached no.1 on the Billboard album chart for 15 weeks. The first hit single in the album "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" hit the no.1 spot on the Pop Single chart and became no.1 in U.K. and the U.S. Another single "Run Like Hell" ranked no.53 on the Pop Single chart. The Wall is considered as one of their best selling album in U.S. selling more than 23 million copies.

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Tracks

Disc 1

Track	Title	Duration
	In the Flesh?	3:19
2	The Thin Ice	2:29
3	Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1	3:09
4	The Happiest Days of Our Lives	1:51
5	Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2	3:59
6	Mother	5:36
7	Goodbye Blue Sky	2:48
8	Empty Spaces	2:08
9	Young Lust	3:30
10	One of My Turns	3:37
11	Don't Leave Me Now	4:17
12	Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3	1:14
13	Goodbye Cruel World	1:17

Disc 2

Track	Title	Duration
1	Hey You	4:42
2	Is There Anybody out There?	2:40
3	Nobody Home	3:24
4	Vera	1:33
5	Bring the Boys Back Home	1:27
6	Comfortably Numb	6:24
7	The Show Must Go On	1:35
8	In the Flesh	4:17
9	Run Like Hell	4:24
10	Waiting for the Worms	3:58
11	Stop	0:30
12	The Trial	5:20
13	Outside the Wall	1:44

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Awards & Certifications

Year	Award	Category
1980	Grammy Award	Nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Certifications

Year	Album	Certification
1979	The Wall	Certified 2x Platinum in U.S.
		Certified 23x Platinum in U.S.

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Chart Toppers

Year	Song	Chart
1979	Another Brick On The Wall Pt. 2	Uk #1
1988	Comfortably Numb	Billboard #24
2000	Young Lust (Live)	Billboard #15

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Credits

Performance Credits

Pink Floyd Primary Artist, Primary Artist

Toni Tennille Background Vocals

Roger Waters Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Musician

Bruce Johnston Background Vocals

Nick Mason Drums, Musician

Rick Wright Keyboards, Vocals

Joe Chemay Background Vocals

Stan Farber Background Vocals

David Gilmour Guitar, Vocals, Musician

Islington Green School Vocals, Background Vocals

Jon Joyce Background Vocals

Jeff Porcaro Drums

"Philthy Animal" Taylor Sounds

John Joyce Background Vocals

Technical Credits

Roger Waters Producer, Sleeve Design

Michael Kamen Orchestral Arrangements

Rick Wright Contributor

Rick Hart Engineer

Brian Christian Engineer

Bob Ezrin Producer, Orchestral Arrangements

David Gilmour Producer

Nick Griffiths Engineer

James Guthrie Producer, Engineer, Remastering

John McClure Engineer

Ben Rodgers Engineer

Doug Sax Mastering

Patrice Queff Engineer

Gerald Scarfe Sleeve Design

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Trivia

The band was at their final time. Waters and Gilmour were always arguing and they had to take a co-producer to release the album. Wright went out the band after the album was released and he joined (contracted this time) to play the tour. It was really expensive and all of them lost money.

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