Chart Info:

LP goes #1 in the UK on 2/4/83. LP debuts at #29 in USA charts on 9/4/83. Highest it gets is #6 in the USA. However, the LP makes it to #1 in the UK, West Germany, Sweden, Italy and Norway.

Album Info:

Dedicated to Eric Fletcher Waters (1913-1944)

"The Final Cut" is perhaps the most controversial Pink Floyd album of all. It is the closest thing to a Roger Waters solo album that ever went out under the name of Pink Floyd. The material had been written for The Wall and rejected at the time by the rest of the group. By this time, Rick
Wright had left the fold, Gilmour and Mason were reduced to the status of mere session men, and Waters' domination of the group reached its height.

David Gilmour: "I said to Roger, If these songs weren't good enough for The Wall, why are they good enough for now? We had the most awful time of my life. Roger had got Rick out, Nick wasn't around much and now he was starting on me. A most unpleasant and humiliating experience."

By sticking to one basic theme--the betrayal of the post-1945 socialist dream by the Thatcher government--Waters was able to write far more incisively than he had done on "The Wall".

Produced by: Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen
Engineered by James Guthrie and Andy Jackson
Assistant Engineers: Andy Canelle, Mike Nocito, Jules Bowen
Sleeve Design by Roger Waters
Photography by Willie Cristie
Artwork by Artful Dodgers
Recorded in England at Mayfair, Olympic, Abbey Road, Eel Pie, Audio
International, Rak, Hookend and The Billiard Room
Holophonics by Zuccarelli Labs, Ltd.
Mastered by Doug Sax at the Mastering Lab
Special Thanks to Neal Wharton

Musicians Featured:

David Gilmour: Vocals, Guitars
Nick Mason: Drums
Roger Waters: Bass Guitar, Vocals

Michael Kamen: Piano, Harmonium
Andy Brown: Organ
Ray Cooper: Percussion
Raphael Ravenscroft: Tenor Sax
Andy Newmark: Drums on "Two Suns In The Sunset"
The National Philarmonic Orchestra with Michael Kamen: Orchestration