Last Pink Floyd - first Roger Waters Solo??

The Final Cut is the final Pink Floyd studio album to feature Roger Waters. The album is predominantly the work of Waters (similar to The Wall, but far more so), this being the only Pink Floyd album on which the composers' credit on every track is given to Waters alone, with no songwriting credits given to any other member of the band. Keyboardist Rick Wright played no part in the recording of The Final Cut having been sacked by Waters during recording of The Wall, meaning that this is the only Pink Floyd album on which Wright does not feature at all. David Gilmour meanwhile sings lead vocals on only one of the album's twelve songs, the rest being sung entirely by Waters. The recording of The Final Cut was marred by tension between Waters and his bandmates, particularly Gilmour, who has since expressed his dislike for much of the album. For these and other reasons, it is sometimes regarded as a Roger Waters solo album rather than a true Pink Floyd album. None of the album's songs has ever been performed live by Pink Floyd, though some have been performed live by Waters during solo tours.

The Final Cut was originally scheduled to be nothing more than a film soundtrack album for the band's 1982 movie The Wall. The album was originally to be entitled Spare Bricks and would have featured songs from The Wall which had been re-recorded for the film, such as 'Mother', 'Bring the Boys Back Home', 'Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)', 'Outside the Wall' and the new versions of 'In the Flesh?' and 'In the Flesh' with the film's lead actor Bob Geldof on lead vocals, as well as two songs included in the film but not on the original album ('When the Tigers Broke Free (Parts 1 and 2)' and 'What Shall We Do Now?'). Roger Waters also planned to record a small amount of 'new' material for inclusion on the album (actually old songs he had intended for the Wall album but rejected at that point by the band) which would further flesh out The Wall narrative, such as 'Your Possible Pasts' (part of the lyric of which was recited by Geldof during the film), 'One of the Few', 'The Hero's Return' and 'The Final Cut'.