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Today is a tough episode to recount. The story of the record that severed one of history’s greatest bands… So after the ouster of keyboardist Rick Wright and the global triumph of The Wall, Pink Floyd was down the primary trio of bassist Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour, and drummer Nick Mason. The 70s had been a tumultuous decade for intra-band relations, and as they pushed ahead into the 80s, things were only going to get a whole lot worse.

The Wall, Floyd’s final 70’s work, was released at the precipice of the decade on November 30, 1979… Positioned as it was, its singles spilled over into the 80s. The epic 27-track double concept album featured three singles: Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, released on November 23, 1979, Run Like Hell, released in April 1980, and Comfortably Numb. That one dropped on June 23, 1980. Two years after the release of The Wall in November 1981, Pink Floyd issued a compilation album, with the tongue-in-cheek title: ‘A Collection of Great Dance Songs.’ The name referenced both Another Brick in the Wall’s disco influence and Nick Mason's snide remark that Pink Floyd’s US label “probably thought they were a dance band.” Hey, if ‘Sheep’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’ aren’t great dance tracks, then I don’t know what is.

Pushing ahead into 1982, Pink Floyd got to work on their 12th studio album The Final Cut… though I use the band’s name loosely here, as The Final Cut was “all but” a Roger Waters solo record. I’ll get to that in a minute… The Final Cut was first conceived as a soundtrack album for ‘Pink Floyd – The Wall’, the 1982 film based on The Wall…