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}} "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" is a song by Pink Floyd. It appeared on ''The Wall'' album in 1979. ==Composition== The song is approximately 1 minute, 46 seconds in length, beginning with 24 seconds of a helicopter sound effect; followed by the schoolmaster shouting (in a helicopter) "You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!". Roger Waters's lead vocal is treated with a reverse echo. The lead instrument is the electric guitar with an added delay effect, playing roots (mostly D, G, and A over a melody in D minor). The bass and guitar figure heard during the verses, G to A, is similar to the one in "Waiting for the Worms", heard much later in the album. During the transition to "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II", the key shifts from D minor to the relative major, F major, with dramatic drum rolls and female harmony vocals. On the album, "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" segues into "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" with a loud, high-pitched scream by Roger Waters. Because of this segue, many radio stations play one right after the other, and subsequent Pink Floyd compilation albums (both ''Echoes'' and ''A Foot in the Door'') use this song as the extended intro to ''Another Brick in the Wall''. In the film based on the album, the sound at the beginning of the song is depicted as coming from a train entering a large tunnel, rather than 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 didn't work out, so they used Alex McAvoy, who played the schoolteacher, to do the scene instead. Before the cut in the middle for the Schoolmaster to mock Pink, somewhat quiet hysterical laughter is heard, extremely similar to the Schoolmaster's voice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Happiest Days of Our Lives」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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