Pink Floyd: The Wall/Fun Facts
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- "Hey You" and "The Show Must Go On" are the two songs from the album to not appear in the movie in any form. The "Hey You" sequence was deleted because it would have been redundant, since it was made up of footage from other parts of the film. "Empty Spaces" was replaced by "What Shall We Do Now," which is where it would have been on the album.
- Roger Waters had presented the other members of Pink Floyd with two concepts, The Wall and The Pros & Cons of Hitch-Hiking. They picked The Wall. Waters would go on to record Hitch-Hiking himself in 1984 as his first solo album after leaving the band. It would stop at #30 on the Billboard Top 200 and generally flop with the critics. In Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder, who had praised the otherwise maligned The Final Cut to the hilt, trashed Hitch-Hiking as a "static, faintly hideous record" and that "you could count the number of actual melodies here on Mickey Mouse's fingers." Loder added that guitarist David Gilmour's About Face, which he had given a modest, unenthusiastic three stars ("Not bad at all, but, except for Pink Floyd completists, not essential either"), assumed "new luster in comparison to this turkey." The magazine gave it a rating of one star, proving that the rest of the band were right when they chose to record The Wall.