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Released | November 30, 1979(album, UK) December 8, 1979(album, US) |
Recorded | April - November, 1979 |
Genres | Rock • disco |
Studio | Britannia Row • Super Bear • Miraval • 30th Street • Producers Workshop • Cherokee |
Length | 8:28(with parts II and III, The Wall) 11:47(with parts II and III, Is There Anybody Out There?) 13:28(with parts II and III, Live in Berlin) 9:18(with parts II and III, Roger Waters: The Wall) 3:11(The Wall) 4:13(Is There Anybody Out There?) 3:38(Live in Berlin) 4:09(Roger Waters: The Wall) |
Label | Harvest(UK) Columbia/CBS(US) |
Vocalists | Roger Waters |
Songwriters | Roger Waters |
Producers | Roger Waters • David Gilmour • Bob Ezrin • James Guthrie |
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part I)" is the first of a three-part composition by the English rock band Pink Floyd which appears on their 1979 rock opera The Wall. The first part was released as a single in Costa Rica, Argentina, and Colombia.
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This part of "Another Brick in the Wall" centers around how Pink's father died in World War 2. The absence of his father during childhood would become one aspect (or "just a brick in the wall", as Pink puts it) of his life that would influence Pink to socially distance himself from society.