The Show Must Go On (Pink Floyd song)

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Not to be confused with the Queen song of the same name.
"The Show Must Go On"
"The Show Must Go On" cover
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Wall
Released 30 November 1979 (US), 8 December 1979 (UK)
Recorded April-November, 1979
Genre Art rock/Progressive rock
Length 1:36
Label Harvest Records (UK)
Columbia Records (US)/Capitol Records (US)
Writer(s) Roger Waters
Producer(s) Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour and Roger Waters
The Wall track listing
Comfortably Numb
(6 of disc 2)		 "The Show Must Go On"
(7 of disc 2)		 In the Flesh
(8 of disc 2)

"The Show Must Go On", a song by popular British rock band Pink Floyd, that appeared on their 1979 rock epic The Wall. It was written by Roger Waters.

It is probably the fictional character Pink's comment on the control the managers and record companies now have over his already ruined life.

Alternatively, "the show" could be a metaphor for, essentially, life. Pink is debating what to do after building his wall: he realizes that an isolated life is dull. He decides that "the show must go on," but the stress of continuing creates the hallucination beginning in In the Flesh.

Roger Waters wanted to create a "Beach Boys" type sound for the backing, and actually got Bruce Johnston to come and help create it. The song strongly resembles Queen's music not only through the harmonizing voices but through its lyrics and title as well. (Queen would record a song of the same name in 1991).

This track does not appear in the 1982 film version of The Wall nor in Roger Waters's post-Pink Floyd 1990 concert The Wall Live in Berlin.

It also has an extra verse that was cut from the studio album, but nevertheless appears on its sleeve.

"Do I have to stand up
Wild eyed in the spotlight
What a nightmare Why!
Don't I turn and run"

After this, the line "It must be some mistake..." starts.

The full song was performed live in concert, and as such appears on Is There Anybody out There? The Wall Live 1980-81.

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