http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/theFinalCut/index.html

Has anyone else seen this? It was a short film that Roger Waters created to promote The Final Cut and it features four songs from the album: The Gunner's Dream, The Final Cut, Not Now John, and The Fletcher Memorial Home. It's a lot more obtuse than The Wall and it lacks the powerful imagery that made the latter great. But it's still kinda cool.

Much like the album itself, he pretty much did it without any input from the rest of the band.

One thing he did not do was direct it. Instead, his brother-in-law directed it.

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

Is that sass? I thought the reason he and and Gilmour hate each other is because Waters basically inserted his name into all the credits regardless of anyone else's efforts?

No, it's because Waters assumed near-absolute creative control of the band and then made sure everyone knew it.

The insert for The Wall says All Lyrics By Roger Waters in big letters and then underneath it mentions that "The Trial" was co-written by Bob Ezrin and that "Comfortably Numb" and "Hey You" were co-written by Gilmour.

And then there's The Final Cut which is billed as:


The Final Cut: A requiem for the postwar dream by Roger Waters

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Roger Waters
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Nick Mason