Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd still holds the record for having the longest stay of an album on the charts with their release in 1973 of "Dark Side Of The Moon." But their biggest song came a few years later with "Another Brick In The Wall."

The track is part of the double album, "The Wall", which was an indictment of mass crowd psychology and the human nature to act as lemmings with little original thought of their own. The song's writer, Roger Waters, felt this type of thinking was ruining the creativity of musical artists.

But what about the whole "brick in the wall" reference? The "wall" is used as a metaphor for the band's growing separation from their audience as they became more and more popular. Waters, in particular, was feeling the stress of too much touring, too little sleep and too much attention and adulation from their fans. The stress overcame him one night in Montreal. Roger Waters got upset and spit on a fan in the front row. Later, as he brooded over his fame and where it was taking him, the concept album "The Wall" was born. Ironically though the song's success catapulted Pink Floyd to even greater heights.

"Another Brick in the Wall" became, quite literally, another brick in the wall separating the band from its audience as it shot to #1 and stayed there for an amazing four weeks in February of 1980.