Roger Waters Pink Floyds Comfortably Numb, In The Flesh Live
As David Gilmour would later declare: I think things like Comfortably Numb were the last embers of mine and Rogers ability to work collaboratively together. In the end, Waters would leave the band in a bitter dispute, and The Walls creation was their last edifice as a whole, with the subtitle to 1983s The Final Cut clearly indicating the end: A requiem for the postwar dream by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd. While the end of the postwar dream was ostensibly a shot at Margaret Thatchers Britain, it could just as easily have been about the death of Pink Floyds flowery 1960s vision. Four years on from his departure, in November 1989, a different revolution was underway, one that genuinely signified some sanguine hope of its own as the Berlin Wall was toppled. As the former German President Horst Köhler remarked: The Wall was an edifice of fear. On November 9th, it became a place of joy. For a musician searching for symbolism, such a poetic notion was alluring enough, b
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