The Fletcher Memorial Home

March 21, 1983 (UK ); April 2, 1983 (U.S.)

The Fletcher Memorial Home is a song by Roger Waters and was played by Pink Floyd. The song appeared on the 1983 Pink Floyd album The Final Cut. Later the song was also on the Pink Floyd compilation albums Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd and The Best of Pink Floyd - A Foot in the Door published.

Formation

The play is about the frustration Waters over the states leader in the world since the Second World War. Here, the names are mentioned in the text accordingly ( Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig, Menachem Begin, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Paisley, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon ). Waters suggests in the verses to bring the "colonial wasters of life and limb" ( colonial wasters of life and limb ) in a specially equipped home for the elderly. He describes here the leaders as " overgrown infants " ( overgrown infants ) and " incurable tyrants " ( incurable tyrants ), and makes the case that these individuals are not able to understand anything other than violence or their own faces on the TV screen. In the final lines of the play Waters introduces the " tyrants " in the Fletcher Memorial Home and introduces himself as the "Final Solution" ( final solution ) is applied to it. The name Fletcher in the song is a tribute and a reminder of Roger Waters father, Eric Fletcher Waters, who died in the Second World War in 1944 in the Italian Anzio.

Musician

Together with:

  • The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen
  • Michael Kamen - piano
Genre The Final Cut (Album)
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