The September issue of Classic Rock Magazine (Issue 357) features a major cover story on Pink Floyd’s The Wall 1980/81 tour. From their description, it reads:

Their (Pink Floyd’s) hugely ambitious 1980/81 tour for The Wall redefined rock shows. But plagued by power grabs, bad blood, sackings, and bitter dysfunction, it also tore the band apart.

There’s a quote from Roger Waters in this month’s cover feature that sums up the state of the Pink Floyd nation during their very ambitious – and very fractious – tour supporting The Wall album, which drew to a close 45 years ago.

“We have been pretending we’re all jolly good chaps together,” he said, “but that hasn’t been true in seven years.”

While the Gilmour/ Waters-led Floyd would go on to record one more album together, 1983’s The Final Cut – and quite how they managed that is anyone’s guess – The Wall tour really did spell the dissolution of the band. Was it the sheer scale and ambition of the trek, the financial ramifications, creative differences or something else entirely that brought things to a head?

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