Pink Floyd: Bricks in the Wall

by Karl Dallas

A look back at the popular rock group features exclusive interviews with Roger Waters and other Pink Floyd members and discusses the misconceptions about the group's albums, lyrics, and concerts. Original.

Genres: Music

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1994

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

This had been sitting on my shelf for decades and I finally decided to break it out when I was looking for a quick read on the beach last week. "Saucerful of Secrets" is a far superior biography of the band, but this book does contain some interesting insights from a critic who covered the band and grew close to them over the years, and there are a few good interviews with Gilmour and Waters from those eras. However, there are some inaccuracies, and the author (especially in the first half of the book), goes off on tangents about society and the music scene at the time that don't have as much to do with the band as he would like you to believe. Overall, it focuses more on the music than on the personal stories of the members, which isn't a bad thing as his takes on the albums are insightful, but I would only recommend it to die-hard Floyd completists.

[Bobby Daugherty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Biography of the band Pink Floyd as well as an explanation of the meaning of the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall".