Classic Rock’s new issue examines how Pink Floyd’s ambitious and conflict-ridden tour for The Wall contributed to the band’s eventual break-up. The feature matters because it revisits a pivotal period for one of rock’s most influential groups, focusing on the tensions between Roger Waters and David Gilmour that overshadowed the production.

Waters is quoted as saying the band had only been pretending to get along and that this had not been true for seven years. Although Pink Floyd recorded one further album together, 1983’s The Final Cut, the article presents The Wall tour, which ended 45 years ago, as the point at which financial pressures, creative differences and the scale of the project brought divisions to a head.