He wrote the lyrics. He helped shape the concept. But when it came time to sing, Roger Waters could barely get through it. The pressure, the egos, the invisible walls growing between him and the rest of Pink Floyd—it was all there, buried in every note. “You can hear the tension,” he later admitted, and he meant every word. This wasn’t just another album. It was the sound of a band quietly falling apart, one line at a time. And for Waters, it was almost unbearable.
Inside “The Wall”: The Album That Tore Pink Floyd Apart from the Inside Out Roger Waters had done it all.…