

Yes, the album is the greatest example of high-period megalomaniac Waters. While it would probably be a perverse fan who would name The Final Cut as their favourite Pink Floyd album, it’s certainly worth a lot more credit than it’s usually given. I loved it and thought there was some great stuff on it.” Why regurgitate? I never saw it like that. David had said publicly that the songs were off-cuts from The Wall. “Because the break-up was on the horizon,” he adds, “I think David was finding it very tough Roger for different reasons. Waters was his brother-in-law, and at the time Christie was living in an outhouse over the garage at Waters’s house in Sheen, “after a relationship had gone south”. Christie has great insight into the album and the period.


“It came and died, really, didn’t it?” says Willie Christie, who shot the album’s cover photo.
