Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky Album: The Wall [1979]
roger waters constructed "the wall", a narcissistic, double-album rock opera about an emotionally crippled rock star who spits on an audience member daring to cheer during an acoustic song. given its origins, it's little wonder that the album paints such an unsympathetic portrait of the rock star, cleverly named "pink," who blames everyone - particularly women - for his neuroses. waters took his operatic inclinations to heart, constructing the album as a series of fragments that are held together by larger numbers like "comfortably numb" and "hey you." generally, the fully developed songs are among the finest of pink floyd's later work, but the wall is primarily a triumph of production: its seamless surface, blending melodic fragments and sound effects. on the original vinyl version of the album, "goodbye blue sky" occupied the last slot on the first side of album one. in an interview around the album's release, waters described the song as being a recap of the first side of album one, summing up the pink's life to that point. as waters says, in it's most simplistic form "it's remembering one's childhood and then getting ready to set off into the rest of one's life." exemplifying the wall's characteristic presentation of a gentle melody juxtaposed against harsh lyrics, or vice versa, much of the music for "goodbye blue sky" is incredibly tranquil, soaring even, only falling into disjointed minors as the lyrics grow darkly paranoid. by waters' explanation, one can easily relate to the often contradictory emotions of setting out into the world on one's own. the child who says the line, "look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky" is roger's son harry, who was only two years old at the time.
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