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The music video for "Wall to Wall," directed by Erik White and Chris Brown, is an imitation of the 1998 film Blade, but tributes Michael Jackson's Thriller. The video was released to AOL Music on May 21, 2007, filmed at the Jewish community center, Brandeis-Bardin Institute , made famous for being the Command Center/Power Chamber on Mighty ...
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 song tells of the sadness of lovers separated by the Berlin Wall which divided West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin at the time, and expresses the hope that the wall will soon fall. The Berlin Wall had been constructed in 1961, and in fact did not fall until 1989.
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 ...
"These Walls" is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar featuring fellow American musicians Bilal, Anna Wise, and Thundercat. It was originally released on March 15, 2015 as a track from the former's third studio album To Pimp a Butterfly, before being released as its fifth and final single on October 13, 2015.
The Wall tells the story of Pink, an embittered and alienated rock star. As told through the song "Mother", part of Pink's sense of alienation comes from being raised by an overprotective single mother, who lost her husband, Pink's father, in World War II. The song narrates a conversation by Pink (voiced by Waters) and his mother (voiced by ...
"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.
The song made its first CD appearance on a promotional disc in conjunction with Roger Waters' 1990 live performance of The Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. This was the Pink Floyd recording from the original 1982 single, and had a running time of 3 minutes.