LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 21, 2019…THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO PINK FLOYD RELEASE THEIR 12TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘THE FINAL CUT’
FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THIS ALBUM, ROGER WATERS ANNOUNCED HE WAS LEAVING THE BAND, AND LATER ATTEMPTED TO KEEP DAVID GILMOUR AND NICK MASON FROM USING THE PINK FLOYD NAME.
IT’S ALSO THE FIRST ALBUM NOT FEATURE KEYBOARDIST RICHARD WRIGHT.
THE RECORDING SESSIONS FOR ‘THE FINAL CUT’ WERE FILLED WITH BAND INFIGHTING.
A GOOD MAJORITY OF THE ALBUM WAS LEFTOVER MATERIAL FROM ‘THE WALL’ RECORDING SESSIONS.
THE FINAL CUT IS AN ANTIWAR ALBUM. ROGER WATERS WROTE THE ALBUM WITH MOST OF THE ALBUM CONVEYING THE CONCEPT OF THE BETRAYAL OF FALLEN SOLDIERS, SUCH AS HIS FATHER, WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES DURING WORLD WAR 2 IN THE SPIRIT OF A POST WAR DREAM. THE POST WAR DREAM WAS ONE IN WHICH VICTORY
WOULD USHER IN A MORE PEACEFUL WORLD, WHOSE LEADERS WOULD NO LONGER BE SO EAGER TO SOLVE DISPUTES BY RESORTING TO WAR.
‘THE FINAL CUT’ SOLD OVER 2 MILLION COPIES.
HERE ARE SOME VIDEOS FOR ‘THE FINAL CUT’
