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Roger Waters, The Wall - photo by Ros O'Gorman

Roger Waters, The Wall - photo by Ros O'Gorman

Roger Waters Concludes The Wall Tour

by Paul Cashmere on July 24, 2012

in News

Roger Waters’ The Wall has come to an end. Waters performed his last concert on the tour in Quebec City on Saturday night before 75,000 fans.

Roger Waters, The Wall - image by Ros O'Gorman

Roger Waters, The Wall - image by Ros O'Gorman

The final venue for The Wall was Quebec City’s The Plains of Abraham. Roger Waters performed The Wall in Melbourne in February and Noise11.com was there. 

The Wall was the highest grossing tour from 2010 to 2012.

The Pink Floyd album The Wall is one of the biggest selling albums of all-time. The 1979 classic has sold more than 23 million to date in the USA alone.

Pink Floyd first performed the album 28 times in 1980. In 1982, it as adapted into a movie starring Bob Geldof.

In 2010 Roger Waters took the album on the road once again and performed the show 160 times in 27 countries. Waters wanted to tour The Wall again to take advantage of today’s technology. “40 years ago, we couldn’t have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can,” says Waters.

The show in Quebec City on Saturday featured an 800 foot wall, the largest staged since Waters performed the concert for the fall of the Berlin Wall 22 years ago.

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