Roger Waters Pink Floyd’s 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 Roger’s ability to work collaboratively together.” In the end, Waters would leave the band in a bitter dispute, and The Wall’s creation was their last edifice as a whole, with the subtitle to 1983’s The Final Cut clearly indicating the end: “A requiem for the post-war dream by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd.” While the ‘end of the post-war dream’ was ostensibly a shot at Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, it could just as easily have been about the death of Pink Floyd’s 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