In 1979, Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Superman was the box office hit, and while the Bee Gees had the number one song that year with too much heaven,

it was Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb, that continues to resonate 43 years later. Not to mention, David Gilmore's guitar solo is

legendary. The story has it that with comfortably numb Roger Waters, who was Pink Floyd's

singer and bassist at the time, he claimed that a lot of the songs stemmed from an event that

occurred one night in Philadelphia while they were on tour.

A doctor gave him a sedative for a severe stomach ache, which he believed was caused by nerves.

That night, despite his hands being numb and having blurred vision during the show,

the crowd, having no idea of what was

going on, danced and sang merrily.

This experience for Roger Waters led to one of the main themes with this released titled

The Wall that disconnects between the audience and the band.

He and the world around him.

That was the longest two hours of my life, he later said in an interview.

I can imagine as he looked over the crowd the absolute feeling of loss he must have had, an empty emotional haze as he tried to find some meaning

in his isolated existence.

As the crowd, well, they just sing along at the top of their lungs.

Let's be honest, though, it's easy to relate.

Inside, you have those days, those weeks, months even, when you're just numb, empty,

not living, but still alive. You look around and see an ocean of people that feel as if no one sees you.

This would be one of many occasions where Roger Waters began to emotionally pull away from

everything around him.

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