Waters narrated “Walled Horizons,” a short film produced by the United Nations in Jerusalem, which sharply criticized the security barrier. film on West Bank barrier, narrated by Waters “It’s like living in a giant prison.” April 2010: Release of U.N. “It fills me with horror, the thought of being constrained by something like this,” Waters told Independent Television News at the barrier. He spray-painted the words “We don’t need no thought control” – lyrics from the song “Another Brick In The Wall” from the “Wall” – on the security barrier. Waters was slated to perform in Tel Aviv, but after visiting the security barrier erected by Israel along its 1967 border with the West Bank, he decided to move his show to Neve Shalom, a cooperative village founded by both Arabs and Jews. June 2006: Performance in Israel and visit to West Bank security barrier Waters’ later rhetoric against Israel incorporated themes from the French Revolution, such as tyranny versus democracy.
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Parts of it were performed in the early 2000s, but its first full performance didn’t come until 2005. Waters spent a portion of the late 1980s writing the score for an opera based on the story of the French Revolution. 2005: First full performance of French Revolution opera “Ça Ira”
Waters had already left Pink Floyd, but in perhaps his first large-scale political act, he performed songs from “The Wall” at the site of the former Berlin Wall, which had fallen just eight months earlier. He said he mined his internal frustrations in writing lyrics for “The Wall.” “The piece on its simplest level is about the situation of a rock concert and feeling alienated from an audience, from the point of view of being on stage,” he said of “Another Brick in the Wall,” a hit song from the album. Waters had begun to feel disconnected from his fans during Pink Floyd’s previous tour for their album “Animals,” he said in an interview. Here’s a brief history of how Waters has evolved from a rock star to a political activist - turning “The Wall” from an expression of personal turmoil to an anti-Israel symbol along the way.