Protest songs have always been a major part of music, rock and roll in particular. Over the years, certain rock songs have become rallying cries for various groups of oppressed or downtrodden people ...

In 1980, Pink Floyd scored a rare chart triumph when “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” became the band’s only No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. By that point, the group was already one of the ...

Something interesting happened in the '80s: Progressive rockers became pop stars. All through the '70s, many of rock's more virtuosic musicians moved into triple-gatefold concept-LP space-out ...

Researchers, studying which parts of the brain are responsible for processing elements of music, played a Pink Floyd song to a group of patients with electrodes implanted in their brains. Researchers ...

Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)” includes the famous lyrics “We don’t need no education / we don’t need no thought control.” During a 2015 interview with The Wall Street Journal, ...

Roger Waters was already starting to live the life of an isolated rock star by the time he began working on Pink Floyd's The Wall in 1978. The band's last tour, in support of 1977's Animals, was ...

The only thing the group had never quite figured out was how to score a big radio hit. “Money” did manage to reach Number 13 on the Hot 100 in 1973, but Floyd became a quintessential album band after ...

Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s The Wall classic “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)” by using human brainwaves. The 1979 song was decoded using recordings of electrical brain activity. “It ...