Pink Floyd cane goes on display at museum

 It’s hard to believe but the cane used to punish Roger Waters at his school, a memory which inspired Pink Floyd’s The Wall, was put on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in 2017 – iNews reports.

Roger Waters gets caned for trippy Pink Floyd V&A exhibition

The cane used to punish Roger Waters at his school, a memory which inspired The Wall, Pink Floyd’s musical assault against authority figures, will go on display 60 years later at a V&A exhibition devoted to the influential band.

The musician’s distaste for the formal education he received attending a Cambridge grammar school in the 50s fuelled The Wall, Floyd’s 1979 concept album and spectacular live show.  

A 35-foot tall inflatable teacher waved a giant cane at a school choir during performances of the number one single, Another Brick In The Wall, Part II.

Archivists have discovered the cane, once brandished by the headmaster at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys.

It will feature alongside the vintage equipment used by Pink Floyd to create their albums and an “immersive” recreation of their early psychedelic concerts, at the V&A show.

Reunited with Floyd drummer Nick Mason at a Mayfair launch for the show, Waters, 73, said: “I particularly want to see the cane they used to beat me.”

The experience may have been embellished for The Wall’s story of rebellion against totalitarianism. “The cane was flimsy. The headmaster didn’t have his heart in corporal punishment,” Waters recalled. “I was only beaten a couple of times.”

The V&A show, Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, marks 50 years since the band’s first single and includes more than 350 objects, including paintings by original singer Syd Barrett, who left after a drug-induced breakdown.

Extracted from iNews, 16 February 2017.

Picture credit: iNews.

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