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The Wall

double studio album by British band Pink Floyd
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The Wall
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Summary

The Wall is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.059% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,365 views/month, #36 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: SNEP diamond album[3]
  • Genre: progressive rock[4]
  • Followed by: The Final Cut[5]
  • Producer: Bob Ezrin[6]
  • Performer: Pink Floyd[7]
  • Record label: Harvest[8], Columbia Records[9]
  • Place of publication: United Kingdom[10], United States[11]
  • Part of: Pink Floyd's albums in chronological order[12], Pink Floyd studio albums discography[13], Shine On[14]
  • Commons category: The Wall[15]
  • Language of work or name: English[16]
  • Distribution format: 2 × LP[17], 2 × CD[18], music streaming[19]
  • Publication date: November 30, 1979[20]
  • Tracklist: In the Flesh?[21], The Thin Ice[22], Another Brick in the Wall, part 1[23], The Happiest Days of Our Lives[24], Another Brick in the Wall, part 2[25], Mother[26], Goodbye Blue Sky[27], Empty Spaces[28], Young Lust[29], One of My Turns[30], Don't Leave Me Now[31], Another Brick in the Wall, part 3[32], Goodbye Cruel World[33], Hey You[34]
  • Cover art by: Gerald Scarfe[35]
  • Topic has template: Template:The Wall[36]
  • Title: The Wall[37]
  • Has characteristic: double album[38]
  • Different from: The Wall[39]
  • Duration: 4869 seconds[40]
  • Number of parts of this work: 28 audio track[41]
  • Derivative work: Pink Floyd – The Wall[42]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[43]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[44]

  • First release date: 1979-11-30[45]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, ambient, art rock, blues, classic rock, classical, electronic, hard rock, house, italo-disco, jazz, pop, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, rock, rock opera, space rock, symphonic rock, trance[46]

  • Community tags: 1979, 5+ wochen, 70s, album rock, alternative rock, ambient, art rock, band, blues, britannique, british, classic rock, classical, concept album, discogs/the most popular album released every year from 1950 to 2020, double album, electronic, english, folk/country, hard rock, hiphop, house, italo-disco, jazz, max, offizielle charts, pop, pop/rock, prog rock, prog-rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, rhythm and blues, rock, rock opera, space rock, symphonic rock, trance, uk, vyrzukhisuc-album[47]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f2026101-945b-3d05-9ef4-aa718fc3feef[48]

Why It Matters

The Wall has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

FAQs

What awards did The Wall receive?

Honors received include SNEP diamond album[3].

Related Entities

2 × CD Columbia Records Harvest Pink Floyd – The Wall The Final Cut United Kingdom United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . MusicBrainz. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . Pink Floyd: The Music and the Mystery. wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [44] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [45] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [46] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [47] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [48] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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