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COMPOSITION The song is reasonably loud in dynamics. It is approximately 1 minute, 52 seconds in length, beginning with 24 seconds of a Helicopter approaching followed by shouting from the schoolmaster. After that the sound effects abruptly cut out for the lyrical portion. Throughout the most of the song the leading instrument is the bass guitar and just in the bridge to Another Brick In The Wall (part 2) there are intense drums and backing vocals. At the end of the song, there is an abrupt halt in the music. This is due to the fact that ''The Happiest Days of Our Lives'' is followed by ''Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2'', and the two mesh together in what is often mistaken as one song. PLOT As with the other songs on ''The Wall'', ''The Happiest Days of Our Lives'' tells a portion of the story of ''Pink'', the album's protagonist. In this song, his rather horrendous education is revealed, alongside a violent schoolmaster. FILM VERSION Pink and his friends try to put a bullet on the train (one of his father's bullets). Pink is caught in the tunnel where the train passes with masked kids inside, then the teacher appears shouting, then disappears. We then go to his school where his teacher scolds him for making a poem, we then see him having dinner with his wife, where he then sees images of himself beating his students. PERSONELL
TRIVIA In the Movie based on the album, the sound at the beginning of the song is depicted as coming from a train entering a large tunnel, confused with a helicopter heard on the album. According to Gerald Scarfe, there was supposed to be a puppet of the teacher at the end of the tunnel in the film. Alan Parker made shots of it, but it didin't work, so they used the actor who played the teacher to do it instead. It is believed that the teacher in the film is the same one from The Final Cut album. Also in the movie, the Teacher, upon discovering young Pink's "poem", reads it aloud to the class. The "poem" he recites is actually a portion of the lyrics from the song " Money " off Floyd's earlier album, " Dark Side Of The Moon ". When Kate Bush was trying to add a similar helicopter to the fadeout of her single "Experiment IV," her Recording Engineer s were unable to duplicate the overwhelming sound. So she asked Roger Waters for the original tape, and he obliged her as long as he was thanked in the credits. SEE ALSO |
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