During a late-seventies Pink Floyd tour, band brainiac Roger Waters felt a brick wall rise between him and the audience-an implacable image of alienation. But when life gives you bricks, make bricolage. Combining an ensemble of twenty-six angst-ridden songs, the breakdown of former PFer Syd Barrett, the disquieting animation of Gerald Scarfe, Bob Geldof's droll portrayal of burned-out rocker Pink, a short story by Sartre, and the pop sensibility of director Alan Parker (Fame, The Commitments), this illustrated LP comes across as a masterful hallucination of one man's dread of abandonment. Ditching his tour, Pink succumbs to a binge of TV watching, pill popping, and self-mutilation. He barely speaks while the songs, such as “Goodbye Blue Sky,” “Waiting for the Worms,” and “Comfortably Numb,” speak high volumes for him in pumped orchestral manner. After his temporary rebirth as a fascist pop star, Pink has his final realization-a wall is just a door without an opening.