Throughout recording sessions for the movie, its working title was “When The Tigers Break Through”. When it was eventually released as a single in 1982, it bore its original copyright date of 1979.
The movie gave Waters the opportunity to restore “Tigers” back into The Wall storyline and the song was recorded for the film. It was initially rejected by the band for inclusion on the album because they felt it was too personal, even though its inclusion would have helped to tell the story. It was kept universalized, with some very important fine-tuning by Roger.” I insisted we make the record more accessible, more universal. Kids don’t want to know about old rock stars. “The record used to be Roger’s life story, and there were dates in the lyrics that put him at 36 years old. It was part of the piece originally but which made them uncomfortable because it tied it down to specifically “this record is about Roger Waters” rather than Pink, which was a worry, reasonably enough, I suppose.”
There’s a song in the movie called “When The Tigers Broke Free” which is about my father being killed, which had been on the original Wall demo. “In fact, there was some stuff in The Wall that was too personal as well… which showed up in the movie. It’s a highly autobiographical song for Waters and tells the story behind perhaps the biggest brick in the wall - how Pink’s father died at the Battle of Anzio during World War II and by proxy Roger’s father, Eric Fletcher Waters. On the Bricks In The Wall demo, the song was originally titled “Anzio, 1944”. Although Roger Waters mentions in the 1999 DVD commentary that “Tigers” was written specifically for the 1982 film, plenty of other interviews with Waters and others indicate that the song goes back to the original Wall demo. The song was not included in the snippets of the original demo recordings on The Wall: Immersion – Work In Progress discs.
There is no mention of it in any of the available Wall demo track listings. It’s definitely a “spare brick” - one of the original leftover songs from The Wall and one of two that was reintegrated in the film. “When The Tigers Broke Free” was released as a single on July 26, 1982, almost three weeks before the Pink Floyd The Wall – Movie. Originally written in 1978 for The Wall album, “When The Tigers Broke Free” was rejected by the band because they felt it was too personal.
0 kommentar(er)
