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No member of Pink Floyd took the concept of the stage show lightly. This wasn\u2019t just about putting on a bunch of songs that people would intently listen to. This was about creating an experience that no one would forget, and a bunch of people just sitting there wouldn\u2019t do justice to something like The Wall. But even when Roger Waters<\/a> managed to bring his crowning achievement to life in the 1990s without the help of his bandmates, he admitted Sinead O\u2019Connor wasn\u2019t the best substitution.<\/p>\n That tension highlights how exacting Waters could be when it came to interpreting The Wall. For him, the project wasn\u2019t just a collection of songs but a carefully constructed emotional narrative, where every performer had to serve the story rather than their own instincts. Anyone stepping into that world was expected to align with his vision completely, leaving little room for deviation.<\/p>\n When you\u2019re putting on a production like this, though, you\u2019re going to need all the help that you can possibly get. The entire premise of the rock opera is about telling the story of someone trapped inside their mind after closing themselves from society, but the amount of construction that goes into building that wall was already going to be a nightmare for the production team.<\/p>\n Also, pay attention to what this production is: a rock opera. This is a project that has a narrative, and all good stories need to have a lot of characters to fill out everything. Even though Waters was suited to play the protagonist, Pink, the rogue\u2019s gallery of rock stars that he got to play, everyone else was actually fairly decent for its time.<\/p>\n Having Thomas Dolby yucking it up as the teacher is actually fairly demented, and Tim Curry playing the judge at the finale song \u2018The Trial\u2019 is the kind of onscreen role that Curry never got to play. Even the big substitutions are pretty awesome, including Bryan Adams managing to put some decent grit into his voice for the song \u2018Young Lust\u2019.<\/p>\n Considering her background in heart-wrenching material, O\u2019Connor seemed like a sure-fire hit when taking on the song \u2018Mother<\/a>\u2019. After all, the song is about a mother consoling her child while indirectly corrupting him, and that kind of tragedy absolutely drips out of her voice as she sings every line.<\/p>\n On paper, it was the perfect match. O\u2019Connor\u2019s ability to convey vulnerability and intensity made her a natural fit for the song\u2019s emotional core, suggesting that the collaboration could have added a fresh dimension to one of the production\u2019s most intimate moments.<\/p>\n Since the Irish legend couldn\u2019t make the final performance in Berlin, Waters didn\u2019t have one good thing to say about her later, telling Q<\/a>, \u201c[They were] all brilliant. Except for Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor. Oh, God! I have never ever met anybody who is so self-involved and unprofessional and big-headed and unpleasant. She is so far up her own bum it\u2019s scary. She was so worried that there weren\u2019t any other \u2018young people on the show\u2019. I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n While O\u2019Connor\u2019s idea to put a rap in the middle of the show probably wouldn\u2019t have worked, hearing her interpretation of \u2018Mother\u2019 at least shows a different direction that The Wall could have gone in. Since most of the show features everyone reliving the glory of the recorded version of the production, some of the greatest moments come when they work outside the show\u2019s usual parameters, like getting Van Morrison to perform parts of the show.<\/p>\n Then again, anyone who is ever going to be involved with The Wall will have to answer to Waters before all else. O\u2019Connor could have been on the right track to making something unprecedented, but it might have been the case of the right idea at the wrong time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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