The Final Cut

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The Final Cut

album by Pink Floyd

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Roger Waters
Pink Floyd years
The Final Cut is considered by many to be a solo album by Waters, since he wrote all the songs and lyrics. A lawsuit followed, in which Gilmour and Mason won the rights to the name Pink Floyd; Waters, however, retained rights to the album…
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The Final Cut is considered by many to be a solo album by Waters, since he wrote all the songs and lyrics. A lawsuit followed, in which Gilmour and Mason won the rights to the name Pink Floyd; Waters, however, retained rights to the album…
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Pink Floyd
Split and later albums
After the appropriately named The Final Cut (1983), Pink Floyd became inactive, and legal wrangles ensued over ownership of the band’s name. Waters, who dismissed Wright after The Wall and took over most of the songwriting, was even more firmly in control. As a result the band split, but,…
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After the appropriately named The Final Cut (1983), Pink Floyd became inactive, and legal wrangles ensued over ownership of the band’s name. Waters, who dismissed Wright after The Wall and took over most of the songwriting, was even more firmly in control. As a result the band split, but,…
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