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The song won Waters the 1983 British Academy Award for Best Original Song for its appearance in the Wall film. [20] "Part 2" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group. [citation needed] It appeared at number 384 on Rolling Stone ' s 2010 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [21] The lyrics attracted ...
The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records. It is a rock opera which explores Pink, a jaded rock star, as he constructs a psychological "wall" of social isolation. The Wall topped the US charts for 15 weeks and reached number three in the UK. It ...
"Balls to the Wall" is a song by German heavy metal band Accept. It was released as the lead single from their 1983 studio album of the same name. The anthemic title track is the album's best known song, and quickly became Accept's signature song. An accompanying music video was made that received airplay on MTV.
"I Hit the Wall", with its chorus of, "I hit the wall and the wall won", sees Walker sharing a songwriting credit with Sonny Curtis, author of "I Fought the Law". Blood Moon was the first album to feature songs with lyrics by Barnes and music from Walker, with 5 of the songs written this way. [11]
"Flowers on the Wall" is a song originally recorded by American country music group The Statler Brothers. Written and composed by Lew DeWitt, the group's original tenor vocalist, the song peaked in popularity in January 1966, spending four weeks at number two on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, and reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on August 10, 1979, by Epic Records. It was Jackson's first album released through Epic Records, and the first produced by Quincy Jones , whom he met while working on the 1978 film The Wiz .
"Marlene on the Wall" is a song by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. In addition to being her debut single, it appears on her self-titled debut album , released in 1985. While the song failed to make any impact on the charts with its initial release, it became Vega's first top 40 hit in the UK upon a re-release in 1986. [ 2 ]
In German, hitting the wall is known as "der Mann mit dem Hammer" ("the man with the hammer"); the phenomenon is thus likened to a man with the hammer coming after the athlete, catching up, and eventually hitting the athlete, causing a sudden drop in performance.