History Trivia / TheWall

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Music copyright issues affect this one. CMV was able to release a Region 1 VHS tape and DVD of the movie, which are both out of print. Better buy a preowned copy on Ebay before the price skyrockets up! Of course, you can watch the movie on Youtube…before it gets taken down for copyright violations. Or you can always buy a Blu-Ray copy of the movie…if you live in Spain…

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Music copyrights affect this one. CMV was able to release a Region 1 VHS tape and DVD of the movie, which are both out of print. Better buy a preowned copy on Ebay before the price skyrockets up! Of course, you can watch the movie on Youtube…before it gets taken down for copyright violations. Or you can always buy a Blu-Ray copy of the movie…if you live in Spain…

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81'' has been out of print as a standalone release ever since the American rights to the post ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' albums reverted back to Creator/CapitolRecords from Columbia in the U.S. It was released as part of the "Immersion" version of the parent album, but that too eventually went out of print with the sale of EMI and the subsequent back catalog shakeups.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Pink has "thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from"; nowadays, it would be much closer to thirteen ''hundred''. The use of collect calling and payphones also date the album to the pre-Internet-and-cellphone era.

*** Waters would go on to record ''The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking'' himself as his first official solo album. It would only reach #31 on the ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums Chart and generally flop with the critics. ''Rolling Stone'''s Kurt Loder, who had given a glowing review to the otherwise maligned ''The Final Cut'', trashed ''Pros And Cons'' as a "static, faintly hideous record" and that "you could count the actual melodies here on MickeyMouse's fingers." He added that David Gilmour's ''About Face'' album, which he had given a modest, unenthusiastic three stars, assumed "new luster in comparison to this turkey." The album received an abysmal one star, thus proving the rest of the band right when they had rejected it in favor of ''The Wall.''

* DoingItForTheArt: ZigZagged; Pink Floyd's tour promoting ''The Wall'' ended up costing more money than it took in partially as a result of Waters's refusal to play in the stadium venues he had grown to loathe in their previous tour. Roger Waters' 2010 tour, which reproduced the original, was ''the most expensive concert tour in music history'', costing approximately $1 million U.S. per performance. However for the second leg of the tour, Waters has stated he was only persuaded to do it when it looked like he could make money off of it.

** To elaborate: He saw himself and his bandmates being dwarfed by their special effects and deafened by the gigantic crowds to the point where they couldn't even hear themselves play. What's worse, some of the people in the crowds were setting off firecrackers and fireworks during the shows, which are not only [[JumpScare very distracting when trying to concentrate]], but can, to untrained ears, [[ParanoiaFuel sound just like gunshots]].

* NoExportForYou: The original Pink Floyd shows were only played in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Dortmund, Germany, which meant that fans who lived outside of those cities who weren't willing or able to travel were unable to see the shows.

* BannedInChina: The album and movie were banned in South Africa due to anti-apartheid protesters' use of lyrics from "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" to criticize racially biased propaganda and curricula employed by the nation's education system.

* ArtistDisillusionment: This led to the creation of this album. Roger grew tired of the larger audiences and rowdy fans, and slowly started becoming a cold, destructive person, culminating in his infamous spitting incident in Montreal, which proved to be the spark that inspired this album.

** The helicopter sample that opens "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" is reused at the end of Music/KateBush's "Experiment IV". Bush couldn't find a better helicopter sound and directly asked Music/RogerWaters to use the one from Pink Floyd's song, which he agreed to in exchange for an acknowledgement in the liner notes for "Experiment IV".

* NoExportForYou: The original Pink Floyd shows were only played in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Dortmund, Germany, which meant that fans outside of those cities who weren't willing or able to travel were unable to see the shows.

* WordOfDante: It's widely believed by fans that Pink's name is actually "Floyd Pinkerton", and that "Pink Floyd" is a stage name. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_(fictional_character) His page]] on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} even states this. This is never explicitly stated, but the plaque in the church and the royal notice proclaiming his KIA status gives his father's name as "J.A. Pinkerton", and his childhood friends call him "Pinky" (a reasonable nickname for someone with the surname "Pinkerton").

* ChristmasRushed: Literally so. Creator/ColumbiaRecords, the band's U.S. label at the time, offered them a substantial bonus for completing the album in time for Christmas 1979. Roger Waters jumped on the offer, as the band was in dire financial straits at the time, and stepped up the recording schedule. Richard Wright's refusal to cooperate led to his firing. Despite the rush, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools the album was a massive critical and commercial success]].

* LimeyGoesToHollywood: Parts of the album were recorded in L.A.

** In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Future Tense", Luna screams the lyric line "We don't need no education!" from "Music/TheWall Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)" when her parents sign her up for classes at a community college.