History Trivia / TheFinalCut

** Roger wanted to release ''The Final Cut'' as a solo album, which explains why it was credited as "By Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd". It's the only Pink Floyd album Waters wrote entirely himself. Waters also wanted to launch a full-scale tour for this album, which would have been their first since the ''In the Flesh'' tour in 1977.

** Roger wanted to release ''The Final Cut'' as a solo album, which explains why it was credited as "By Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd". It's the only Pink Floyd album Waters wrote entirely himself.

* CreatorKiller: For the Music/RogerWaters-led incarnation of the band, as he left after its release and declared the band "a creatively spent force". The album was also a commercial disappointment after the last few Pink Floyd records, especially after the blockbuster success of ''Music/TheWall''. The TroubledProduction of this album and the failure of Waters' solo album, ''The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking'', damaged his professional reputation for a long time.

* CreatorKiller: For the Music/RogerWaters-led incarnation of the band, as he left after its release and declared the band "a creatively spent force". The album was also a commercial disappointment after the last few Pink Floyd records, especially after the blockbuster success of ''Music/TheWall''.

** The album was originally envisioned as ''Spare Bricks'', a companion piece to Pink Floyd's previous album, their 1979 double-LP ''Music/TheWall'', consisting of original recordings made for the 1982 film adaptation plus a handful of original songs meant to expand the album's narrative. However, the onset of UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar resulted in Roger Waters-- [[IAmTheBand then in complete control of the band]]-- scrapping the original concept and creating a new album specifically to say "fuck you" to UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, who he felt had acted out of jingoism and betrayed the ideals left behind in the wake of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (in which his father was died fighting). This drew the irritation of David Gilmour, who was growing tired of Waters' policing of the band and felt unimpressed by the politics behind the album. Additionally, Gilmour was vexed by Waters' decision to include five outtakes from ''The Wall'' intended for ''Spare Bricks''[[note]]"Your Possible Pasts", "One of the Few", "The Final Cut", "The Fletcher Memorial Home", and "The Hero's Return"[[/note]] and wanted the band to compose more original material instead-- which Waters shot down, citing how little his bandmates had actually been contributing in the way of songwriting lately (itself the product of said bandmates wrestling with a wide array of personal issues at the time).
** Writing and recording sessions were already tense from the outset as a result of these CreativeDifferences, to the extent where Waters and Gilmour could no longer tolerate working in the same room as one another. Gilmour felt constantly anxious during the sessions, to the point where he could barely keep from having a breakdown, and Waters was growing increasingly fed up with his bandmates, with his own anxieties (particularly his lack of confidence in his singing ability), and with co-producer and session pianist (in place of the recently-fired Richard Wright) Michael Kamen, who himself was constantly on-edge under Waters' directorship. At one point, Waters, having just finished recording a bevy of vocal takes, spotted Kamen scribbling in a notepad, demanding to know what he was doing and exploding at him upon finding the notepad [[MadnessMantra filled with several pages of "I must not fuck sheep" written ad-nauseum.]]

* CreatorBacklash: David Gilmour disliked ''The Final Cut'' because of the inclusion of the songs that were rejected from ''Music/TheWall'' (e.g., "The Hero's Return" was a reworking of "Teacher, Teacher"). He eventually requested to have his name removed from the producing credits, but still retain producer's royalties. Gilmour did like a few songs from the album, notably "The Fletcher Memorial Home".

** Roger wanted to release ''The Final Cut'' as a solo album, which explains why it was credited as "By Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd".

* CreatorKiller: For the Music/RogerWaters-led incarnation of the band, as he left after its release and declared the band "a creatively spent force". The album was also a commercial disappointment after the last few Pink Floyd records.

** David Gilmour and Roger Waters' relationship had deteriorated to the point where they couldn't stand to be in the same studio as each other, recording their parts separately in different studios with different engineers.

* CreatorKiller: For the Music/RogerWaters-led incarnation of the band, as he left after its release and declared the band "a creatively spent force".

* HostilityOnTheSet: David Gilmour and Roger Waters' relationship had deteriorated to the point where they couldn't stand to be in the same studio as each other, recording their parts separately in different studios with different engineers.
** Waters' attitude even turned off composer MichaelKamen, who was brought in for string arrangements. During a long meeting, Kamen appeared to be taking notes, but had only written "I must not fuck sheep" repeatedly on his notepad. Waters was furious when he found out.

* CreatorKiller: For the Music/RogerWaters-led incarnation of the band, as he left after its release.

** "The Fletcher Memorial Home" refers to many real-life politicians since 1945 whom Roger Waters felt frustrated and irritated by. Many of them were still alive when this song was released.

* HostilityOnTheSet: David Gilmour and Roger Waters' relationship had deteriorated to the point where they couldn't stand to be in the same studio as each other, recording their parts separately in two studios with two engineers.

* HostilityOnTheSet: David Gilmour and Roger Waters' relationship had deteriorated to the point where they couldn't stand to be in the same studio as each other, recording their parts separately with two different engineers.

** "The Fletcher Memorial Home" references many politicians. Some of them, like UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev and UsefulNotes/Joseph[=McCarthy=] were already dead at the time of recording. Haig had stepped down as Secretary of State in 1981, while Begin would do the same in 1983, the year this album was released. As of 2014, with the death of Ian Paisley, all the politicians referenced in this song have died, making the song extremely dated.

** "The Fletcher Memorial Home" references many politicians. Some of them, like UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev and UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy were already dead at the time of recording. Haig had stepped down as Secretary of State in 1981, while Begin would do the same in 1983, the year this album was released. As of 2014, with the death of Ian Paisley, all the politicians referenced in this song have died, making the song extremely dated.

** "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" references several geopolitical hotspots in the early '80s: The SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan, [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict the war in Lebanon]] and UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar.

** "The Fletcher Memorial Home" references many politicians. Some of them, like Brezhnev and [=McCarthy=] were already dead at the time of recording. Haig had stepped down as Secretary of State in 1981, while Begin would do the same in 1983, the year this album was released. As of 2014, with the death of Ian Paisley, all the politicians referenced in this song have died, making the song extremely dated.

** The album was originally intended to be a soundtrack to the film version of ''Music/TheWall'' entitled ''SpareBricks''. Then UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar happened.