August 6, 1982 –
Alan Parker’s rock-musical interpretation of the classical album, Pink Floyd The Wall, premiered in NYC on this date.
In his autobiography Is That It?, Bob Geldof says that his agent first told him about the project while he was riding in a taxi, and that he said that he didn’t want to do it because he didn’t like the music of Pink Floyd. Roger Waters knows this story, not because he read it in Geldof’s book, but because the taxi driver was actually Waters’ brother.
The Haus of Dcaligari 