![]() The Final Cut was a collection of songs written by Waters for The Wall but rejected by the band. Four years after The Wall, The enmity between Roger Waters and – well, everyone else in the band, really – hadn’t been resolved. Things weren’t too rosy for Pink Floyd either. ![]() We weren’t used to wars – they were something our parent’s generation had to put up with. Oh, and there had been a small war in the South Atlantic. Maggie’s Britain was marching inexorably ahead, Yuppies were proliferating in the City, the rest of the workforce was starting to find out what hard work really meant, and inflation was running wild. The Final Cut – first released in 1983 – is in the latter category.įor those that remember 1983, it wasn’t the greatest of years. ![]() Some albums are timeless, and some are so steeped in their decade that in a hundred years’ time you would be able to pinpoint exactly when they were recorded.
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