Roger Waters: Same Words, Different "Wall"

Mr. Waters has moved “The Wall” away from personal confession and toward its other theme: an indictment of power and authority misused

"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control"

NYTIMES Oct 2010 | Roger Waters exorcised personal, and just partly fictionalized, traumas when he wrote “The Wall,” the rock opera his band, Pink Floyd, released in 1979. Now, 30 years after the group first toured with “The Wall,” Mr. Waters is leading his own band, building and (spoiler alert) knocking down a wall again onstage.

The music (some written by Pink Floyd’s guitarist, David Gilmour) has barely changed, give or take a few more guitar solos onstage. But with three decades of added perspective Mr. Waters has…

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