The Final Cut  by Pink Floyd

The Final Cut of 1983 is counted in the official discography of Pink Floyd as their twelfth album. In reality, it is an informal continuation of The Wall, at least in terms of its musical style, or it could be considered the first solo album of Roger Waters, as all compositions are exclusively his, he sings exclusively himself, and he participates in the production of the album along with James Guthrie and composer Michael Kamen, who had assisted Waters in The Wall. In almost every song, Roger Waters finds the opportunity to express his disdain for Margaret Thatcher and her policies regarding the handling of the Falklands crisis.

David Gilmour is limited to playing the guitar, and Nick Mason deals only with the drums. Roger Waters openly accused Gilmour of refusing to offer any help or ideas for the album. As for Richard Wright, he is completely absent, as Waters had fired him since the recording of The Wall. Pink Floyd seemed to have reached absolute saturation. The truth is you can reach this point when you have sold about 100,000,000 copies of records with four albums over the previous ten years.

The Final Cut was accompanied by a short film for the promotion of the record. The album reached No.1 in Britain and No.6 in the U.S.A. The total sales of the album are now estimated at 3,000,000 copies.