During the works at “The Wall” Roger Waters Bullica Rick Wright

The manufacturer Bob Ezrin In an interview granted to CBS News, he revealed some details on the existing tensions between the members of Pink Floyd Roger Waters And Richard Wright During the recording of the 1979 album “The Wall” (read the story here), defining Waters, a bully. These are the words used by the manufacturer to describe what happened at the time: “There were many episodes of bullying at school from time to time. Roger was very tough with Rick”.

Bob Ezrin He explained that the artistic disappointment of Roger Waters towards Wright’s contribution, he has gradually turned into a problematic behavior. “It was disappointed by Rick’s contribution to the album, the thing was not correct because Rick was fantastic. At the moment he plays or sings, he simply becomes Pink Floyd. It is such an essential part of the sound, but he is a very sensitive man. He felt a little isolated from the process after the realization of” Animals “”.

Then he went on to describe how Waters targeted Wright’s vulnerability during recording sessions. “I think he was embarrassed, and Roger, like many bullies, recognizes weakness when he sees it. They feel the smell of blood and go there. So I think that, not consciously, but in a natural way, Roger has started to get pissed off.”

Tensions between Waters and Wright during the sessions of “The Wall” They were part of a wider scheme of clashes. The conflict had developed within the Pink Floyd For years. In that period Rick Wright He was struggling with some personal problems, of a marital nature that led him to be increasingly depressed. These problems influenced his involvement in the band’s creative process and exposed it to the increasingly authoritarian behavior of Roger Waters while working on the disc.

In fact, Wright’s contribution to “The Wall” It was much less than the previous albums. During the realization of the Wright album it was actually excluded from the decision -making process, which was almost exclusively in the hands of Waters. Wright would then participate with a “toilet contract” in the tour of “The wall” And immediately afterwards he abandoned the group between Ruggini and bitterness.