“I then realised my job was to illustrate their music.”Ī few years into their collaboration, Waters penned seminal concept album The Wall, and told Scarfe of his plans to create a roadshow and film alongside it. But he had this theory that if you put a piece of music alongside an image, the brain will find a way of making a connection” “I would turn up to gigs with a bit of film in a can but I said to Roger, ‘we can’t just lace film into anywhere you like – it’s got to match’. “So I added a lot of figures falling through space turning into this and turning into that, crashing through in a very surreal way. “I couldn’t really come to terms with what they were doing, it seemed sort of celestial and floating music,” explains Scarfe. The artist initially struggled to adapt to the group’s demands. Sitting in the audience and suddenly this flaming aeroplane flies overhead and crashes into the stage – what’s not to like about that?” Gerald Scarfe created the “oppressive” hammers, inspiring Roger Waters to alter the lyrics of Waiting for the Worms (Photo: MGM) “What really got me on board was when they invited me to The Rainbow up in North London to see Dark Side of the Moon.
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