Roger Waters Concludes 'The Wall' North American Tour at The Plains of Abraham in Quebec City

NEW YORK, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roger Waters played his last North American tour date of The Wall on Saturday at The Plains of Abraham in Quebec City to 75,000 jubilant fans. The Wall has been heralded as one of the biggest and best rock shows ever staged and has won several industry accolades, and has also earned the distinction of being the highest grossing tour of 2010 as well as of 2012 so far. Critics have praised the tour's individuality, its message, and the sheer spectacle of the performance, with the Chicago Tribune proclaiming that The Wall "saturates the senses and invades nightmares like few stadium spectacles ever have."  The Village Voice called The Wall "one of the most stunning stadium rock concerts ever... Waters has proven himself to be the George Lucas of hard rock."

The Wall was written by Waters and first recorded by his group Pink Floyd in 1979, and has sold over 23 million albums to date. The group subsequently brought The Wall on tour, performing 28 shows in 1980, and The Wall was later adapted into a feature film in 1982. Waters updated his The Wall tour in 2010 to take advantage of advances in technology, and designed a breathtaking spectacle that he has performed 160 times in 27 countries. The 2012 North American tour included 9 outdoor stadium performances, including legendary venues such as New York's Yankee Stadium, Boston's Fenway Park, and Chicago's Wrigley Field, that featured a dramatically enlarged Wall that was double the width of the Wall in the indoor arena show, and was the largest projection surface ever toured in live entertainment. "40 years ago, we couldn't have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can," says Waters. The Plains of Abraham event capped the tour with its largest performance yet, with an 800 foot wall, the scale of which hasn't been staged since Waters performed The Wall 22 years ago in Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.

SOURCE Columbia Records