Pink Floyd’s The Wall is a concept album, or as they considered it, a rock opera. The storyline follows the protagonist, Pink, based on Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. Pink builds a metaphorical wall ...

Bob Ezrin says the closing guitar solo on Pink Floyd classic “Comfortably Numb” was David Gilmour’s first take – and it still stirs emotion for the producer. He added that Gilmour tried again multiple ...

Released by Pink Floyd on June 23, 1980, "Comfortably Numb" was the U.K.-platinum third single from The Wall, Roger Waters' double-album rock opera about growing alienation between a singer and his ...

UPDATE (10.02.23): In his 2022 interview, Bob Ezrin was in fact referring to David Gilmour’s first solo when he claimed it was a first take. Please see Total Guitar’s clarification for more info.

If he sticks to his "unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies," this will mark the last time that the guitarist played the legendary solo in concert The songs have been at the center ...

McCartney wasn’t the only well-known Floyd fan. Jimmy Page praised original guitarist Syd Barrett and his no-holds-barred approach to music. Unfortunately for Barrett, he experienced a nervous ...

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has released a "darker" version of the 1979 The Wall classic "Comfortably Numb." The revamped tune is now 8 plus minutes long, considerably more ominous, and comes ...