The Wall
It's from 1979, before you were born.
- Artist
- Pink Floyd
- Genre
- Progressive rock
- Released
- 1979
- Format
- concept album
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As of 2026, it's 47 years old.
The Wall is Pink Floyd's sprawling, ambitious rock opera about isolation and a rock star building a metaphorical wall around himself — and it produced the unlikeliest protest anthem in history, 'Another Brick in the Wall,' a song about resenting school that schoolchildren themselves sang on the chart-topping single. 'We don't need no education,' sung by a children's choir, remains gloriously ironic.
Heavy, theatrical, and conceptually huge, it became one of the best-selling albums ever and spawned an elaborate stage show with an actual wall built across the stage.
Ambitious, bleak, and weirdly catchy, The Wall is the concept album that turned classroom resentment into a singalong heard around the world.
