Pink Floyd turn The Wall into musical

Psychedelic rockers Pink Floyd are turning their hit 1979 album The Wall into a Broadway musical.

The band's bassist Roger Waters has agreed to write and compose the orchestral arrangements for the New York stage production - about anti-hero Pink, who escapes into a dream world - after film company and former Sony Music boss Thomas Mottle bought the rights to develop the show from Waters.

Waters retained the rights to the album, after leaving the band in the 1980s, and turned it into a semi-animated 1982 film, starring Bob Geldof as a pop star who becomes insane.

Waters jokes, "Now I can write in some laughs, notable by their absence in the movie."

Marimba Films co-chairman Harvey Wenstein says: "I am thrilled to be involved with bringing The Wall to Broadway and to give new generations the opportunity to see this legendary show."