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===Pink Floyd and Roger Waters=== Scarfe was approached to work with [[Pink Floyd]] after [[Roger Waters]] and [[Nick Mason]] both saw his animated [[BBC]] film ''A Long Drawn Out Trip''. Pink Floyd's 1974 programme for their tour in the UK and US, in the form of a comic, included a centre-spread caricature of the band.<ref name="MM">{{Cite book| publisher = Omnibus| isbn = 978-0711941090| last1 = Miles| first1 = Barry| last2 = Mabbett| first2 = Andy| title = Pink Floyd - The Visual Documentary| location = London| date = 1994}}</ref> Scarfe later produced a set of animated short clips used on the 1977 ''[[In the Flesh (1977 Pink Floyd 'Animals' tour)|In The Flesh]]'' tour, including a full-length music video for the song ''[[Welcome to the Machine]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.rogerwaters.org/22/scarfeint.html|title=A Long Drawn-Out Trip: An Interview with Gerald Scarfe|first=Michael|last=Simone|journal=REG Magazine|issue=22|access-date=26 January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820133338/http://www.rogerwaters.org/22/scarfeint.html|archive-date=20 August 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> Scarfe also drew the illustrations for their 1979 album ''[[The Wall]]'' and provided animation and stage props, including enormous inflatable characters for the subsequent [[The Wall Tour (1980-1981)|1980β1981 concert tour in support of that album]].<ref name="MM" /> In 1982, he worked on the [[Pink Floyd β The Wall|film version of ''The Wall'']], although he and Roger Waters fell out with director [[Alan Parker]] during the latter stages of editing.<ref name="Mabbett3">{{Cite book| publisher = Omnibus| isbn = 9781849383707| last = Mabbett| first = Andy| title = Pink Floyd - The Music and the Mystery| location = London| date = 2010}}</ref> As well as the artwork, Scarfe contributed 15 minutes' worth of elaborate animation to the film, including a sequence depicting [[The Blitz|the German bombing campaign over England during World War II]], set to the song "[[Goodbye Blue Sky]]". Some of the animated footage was not original to the film, having been produced for and used in the 1980β81 concert tour, as well as being featured in the 1979 [[music video]] for "[[Another Brick in the Wall|Another Brick in the Wall: Part 2]]".{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} Scarfe continued to work with Roger Waters after the latter left Pink Floyd, creating the graphics and animation for Waters' solo album ''[[The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking]]'' (1984) and its supporting tour.<ref name="Mabbett3" /> Scarfe was also involved in subsequent theatrical adaptations of ''The Wall'', including [[The Wall Concert in Berlin]] (1990),<ref name="Mabbett3" /> and Waters' worldwide [[The Wall Live (2010-2013)]] tour, where his animations were projected on a vast scale. Scarfe's collaboration with Waters was marked in 2008 by the release of a signed limited-edition eight-print series, "Scarfe on the Wall", which contained a monograph book with an extended new interview with Scarfe and was signed by Roger Waters. Early editions of "Scarfe on The Wall" (by date of pre-order, not issue number) came with an additional print giving a total of nine in the set β making these the rarest and most valuable sets. In 2010, Scarfe's book ''The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall'' was published, detailing the artist's work with Pink Floyd and Roger Waters from 1974 to 2010. The book contains contributions from Floyd members Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and [[David Gilmour]], as well as director of the film, Alan Parker.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-11620342/meet-the-author-gerald-scarfe-on-his-role-with-pink-floyd|title=BBC News Meet The Author: Gerald Scarfe on His Role with Pink Floyd|work=BBC News|date=25 October 2010}}</ref>
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