Pink Floyd: história, criação e diálogos intermidiáticos com as capas dos discos e com o filme

Abstract

This work aims to shed light over a few characteristics in the works of the band Pink Floyd, especially towards three axes: firstly, the intention is to look at the band’s trajectory by means of its biography and a history of their works, aiming to highlight the band’s huge success, amidst internal ego conflicts and fatigue, mainly in the late seventies. Thus, we focus on Pink Floyd’s production and album conception, having the vocalist and bassist Roger Waters as Floyd’s most prominent creator. Secondly, we intend to promote a discussion about the band’s album covers, mainly those conceived by Storm Thorgerson’s and Aubrey Powell’s Hipgnosis, guided by the idea of disclosing the works from conceptual elements, which connects to the band’s tracks. Such discussion is extremely vital to reach the third axis of this work, which is to understand the inter/multimedia traits of the band, whose epitome occurs with the launch of The Wall in 1979. This work, released right after the album Animals in 1977, remits to an autobiographical essence of Roger Waters, who focuses on his own life to create the narrative of the character Pink, from the tripod album/concert/film; the album cover is totally represented by a wall, the tour concerts contain several intermedial elements, especially Gerald Scarfe’s animations, and the film, directed by Alan Parker, contains the same animations, besides telling the story from the perspective of the lyrics and the songs. Therefore, this work intends to emphasize Pink Floyd’s multimedia character, focusing on the images and pictures, the animations and the adaptation of The Wall, as well as other resources which state the visuality present in Floyd’s production.

Keywords: Pink Floyd. Intermediality Studies. Multimidiality. The Wall. Progressive Rock.