This article featured in the very first issue of Prog in 2009. It originated from a Classic Rock Pink Floyd cover story for issue 10 of the magazine, when Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81 was released in early 2000, for which Wright was not initially interviewed, and then only a tiny part featured in a subsequent issue of the magazine. Prog ran the entire interview as part of our very first Pink Floyd cover feature.
Back in 1999 I spoke to Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason for a Classic Rock magazine cover story on The Wall. We were one of two UK publications granted rare access to a band notorious for its dislike of courting the press. Pre-Live 8, the frictions which had split the band, with Waters going solo and unsuccessfully suing Gilmour and Mason for continuing under the Pink Floyd banner, were still all too evident, with recriminations still being bandied about (the delightfully placid Mason aside).
