Having posted a couple of links to songs about brick walls — one an R&B ballad and the other a latin/jazz/fusion piece — how could I (who was a teenager in the ’70s) not include Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall?” So here it is now: specifically, “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2.”
And to make this post at least a bit genealogical (or at least onomatological), did you ever wonder where the name Pink Floyd came from?
Apparently, the name was suggested spontaneously by one of the band’s original members, Syd Barret, and was inspired by the first names of two Piedmont blues musicians: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
[ref: Wikipedia contributors, “Pink Floyd,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd#:~:text=The%20group%2C%20comprising%20Mason%2C%20Wright%2C%20Waters%20and,his%20collection%2C%20Pink%20Anderson%20and%20Floyd%20Council. (accessed April 9, 2026).]
How’s that for pedigree?
Now I have to go and listen to the whole album… loud.
