Incurable tyrants and kings
By Michael J.W. Stickings
This is Roger Waters performing "The Fletcher Memorial Home" at Madison Square Garden last year. (It's the best version I could find at YouTube.) It's on the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut, and as the title of this post would suggest it's about the final days of the world's "incurable tyrants and kings," "wasters of life and limb" -- see if you can recognize the two figures who appear at 2:20. (Hints: They're American, they're often in the news, and I've written about both of them this evening in two separate posts.) I included the lyrics in a post on Pinochet -- see here.
This is Roger Waters performing "The Fletcher Memorial Home" at Madison Square Garden last year. (It's the best version I could find at YouTube.) It's on the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut, and as the title of this post would suggest it's about the final days of the world's "incurable tyrants and kings," "wasters of life and limb" -- see if you can recognize the two figures who appear at 2:20. (Hints: They're American, they're often in the news, and I've written about both of them this evening in two separate posts.) I included the lyrics in a post on Pinochet -- see here.
Labels: music, Pink Floyd
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