Music History Events: albums released November 30

Music History Events: albums released November 30

• 1975 – CAT STEVENS – ‘Numbers’

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• 1976 – BARRY WHITE – ‘Is This Whatcha Wont?’

• 1979 – PINK FLOYD – ‘The Wall’

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• 1981 – ABBA – ‘The Visitors’

• 1981 – YES – ‘Classic Yes’

• 1981 – THE BLUES BROTHERS – ‘Best of The Blues Brothers’

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• 1982 – MICHAEL JACKSON – ‘Thriller’

• 1982 – SAMMY HAGAR – ‘Three Lock Box’

• 1983 – BAD RELIGION – ‘Into the Unknown’

• 1984 – GINO VANNELLI – ‘Black Cars’

• 1987 – MODERN TALKING – ‘In the Garden of Venus’

• 1993 – ELTON JOHN – ‘Duets’

• 1994 – THE BEATLES – ‘Live at the BBC’ (UK)

• 1999 – CHER – ‘The Greatest Hits’

• 2004 – SIMON & GARFUNKEL – ‘Old Friends: Live on Stage’

• 2007 – SCOOTER – ‘Jumping All Over the World’

• 2009 – R. KELLY – ‘Untitled’

• 2009 – GERY RAFFERTY – ‘Life Goes On’

• 2011 – NIGHTWISH – ‘Imaginaerum’

• 2018 – THE 1975 – ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’

• 2018 – THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA – ‘Bitter-Sweet’

• 2018 – JEFF TWEEDY – ‘Warm’

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LP 1979: ‘THE WALL’ (Pink Floyd)

On November 30, 1979, the double album “The Wall”, the eleventh album by the British band Pink Floyd, was released in London. Like their previous three albums, “The Wall” is a concept album that in this case was about the personal isolation and decline of a rock star and was conceived during the band”s Flesh Tour in 1977.

Roger Waters, who had sensed feelings of boredom in the audience who attended the shows, imagined the construction of a wall between the group and the audience. The work, built in the manner of a rock opera, focuses on the character “Pink”, Waters” alter ego, whose life experiences begin with the loss of his father in World War II, continuing with the abuse of his teachers, as well as suffering an overprotective mother and the failure of his marriage.

All this leads to a self-imposed social isolation, represented by the wall that gives the album its title. It reached No. 1 in the United States, spending fifteen weeks on the charts. Since it was released, it has sold more than 23 million copies, becoming the best-selling album of the seventies and the third of all time.

The success of “The Wall” was consolidated by a filmed version, directed in 1982 by Alan Parker and starring Bob Geldorf. The live show proved to be too expensive and elaborate and was only performed in four cities.

Keyboardist Rick Wright, whose cocaine addiction had led to his expulsion from the group, took part in the “The Wall” tour as a session musician for the occasion. He was the only one to come away with profits from the adventure, which reflected losses of more than $500,000.

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Single 1981: ‘WAITING ON A FRIEND’ (Rolling Stones)

On November 30, 1981, the second single from the Rolling Stones’ album ‘Tatoo You’, ‘Waiting on a friend’, was released, the recording of which was recorded nine years earlier, between 1972 and 1973 when Mick Taylor was still a member of the band. The piano introduction is by Nicky Hopkins and for the new mix in 1981, Sonny Rollins added saxophone and Michael Carabello güiro, claves, cabasa and congas.

The video that was shot for the MTV premiere, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, was very popular at the time and shows the same New York façade that appears on Led Zeppelin’s album ‘Physical Graffiti’. Matching the lyrics of the song shows Jagger ‘waiting for a friend’ who turns out to be Keith Richards. Both head to a bar where the rest of the group is waiting for them. The video ends with the band playing in a corner of the bar to the indifference of the customers.