Pink Floyd | A copy of "The Wall" signed by the full band

Pink Floyd

The Wall. Columbia Records, 1979

2-LP set in original pictorial gatefold sleeve (catalogue number 36183), signed in blue felt pen by David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters, whose signature is crossed out, on front cover, with the original printed inner sleeves featuring printed lyrics; some very minor edgewear and creasing, small brown stain on upper right corner of reverse, some minor creasing to inner sleeves. [With:] A signed letter of authenticity from Floyd Authentic.

An extremely rare, highly desirable and unusual fully signed LP copy of Pink Floyd's eleventh studio album The Wall, the last with all four core members. Featuring 26 tracks, two records, and an operatic story line, The Wall is one of the most acclaimed concept albums of all time. Renowned as Roger Waters' Rock Opera dealing with abandonment and personal isolation, The Wall explores Pink, a jaded rock star modelled after Waters himself, whose self-imposed isolation from society creates a figurative wall. Though initially received with mixed reviews from critics who found it too pretentious and highbrow for a rock record, the album was a commercial success and is now known as one of the band's finest works. With over 30 million copies sold, The Wall is the second-best selling album in the band's catalogue (behind The Dark Side of the Moon), the best selling double-album of all time, and one of the best-selling albums of all time overall. The album was subsequently adapted into a feature film by Alan Parker for which Waters wrote the screenplay.

Despite its unparalleled critical and commercial success, the album also marked the last time Pink Floyd's core members - Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright - would record an album together. By the time Pink Floyd began recording The Wall in January 1979, tensions among the four members had been simmering for years. Noting feelings of suffocation by Waters, who had asserted control over previous albums, members David Gilmour and Richard Wright had taken pause to pursue solo albums the year before. This only worsened during the making of The Wall, as Waters once again took charge, dictating the album's conceptual themes and cutting up songs against the wishes of David Gilmour. Wright consequently left the band, only returning later for Pink Floyd's tours in 1980 and 1981. Waters eventually quit Pink Floyd in 1985 and sued members Gilmour and Mason in an attempt to stop them from using the band name. He lost, and Gilmour and Mason went on to record three more albums under the band's name: 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1994’s The Division Bell and 2014’s The Endless River. The tense times between the members of the band during the litigation era in the mid-1980s is immortalized on this signed album, as Roger Waters' signature was deliberately crossed out by David Gilmour at the time of its signing.