The Show Must Go On (Pink Floyd Song)

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The Show Must Go On
Pink Floyd
publication November 30, 1979
length 1:36
Genre (s) Rock music , progressive rock , art rock
text Roger Waters
music Roger Waters , David Gilmour
album The Wall

The Show Must Go On is a song by British rock band Pink Floyd from the 1979 concept album The Wall . Besides Hey You , The Show Must Go On is the only title that doesn't appear in the movie Pink Floyd - The Wall .

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Like all other songs from The Wall , The Show Must Go On tells part of the story of the protagonist Pink , who erects an imaginary wall to protect himself from emotional influences.

Here Pink is on the way to the concert. After the medication he was given in Comfortably Numb , he begins to feel strange.

Overall, The Show Must Go On is a kind of “to be or not to be, that is the question ”. Pink doesn't feel safe and doesn't know if he can really perform. After all, he is hidden from the world behind his wall. He would love to run back home, but in the end he decides that he has to perform and the drugs in In the Flesh turn him into a kind of dictator.

music

The Show Must Go On is the only song on the entire album that Roger Waters was not part of.

Gilmour originally wanted to record the song with the Beach Boys , but this idea was dropped at the last second.

The grades are largely the same as in Mother and Waiting for the Worms .

occupation

literature

  • Andy Mabbett: The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. Omnibus, London 1995, ISBN 0-7119-4301-X .
  • Vernon Fitch: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. 3. Edition. Collector's Guide Publications, Burlington, Ont. 2005, ISBN 1-894959-24-8 .

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