The Fletcher Memorial Home
| "The Fletcher Memorial Home" | |
|---|---|
| SongbyPink Floyd | |
| from the albumThe Final Cut | |
| Published | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd |
| Released | 21 March 1983 (UK) 2 April 1983 (US) |
| Recorded | July–December 1982 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 4:12 |
| Label | Harvest Records(UK) Columbia Records(US) |
| Songwriter(s) | Roger Waters |
| Producer(s) |
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"The Fletcher Memorial Home"is a song byRoger Waters,performed byPink Floyd.[1]The song appears on their 1983 album,The Final Cut.[2]It is the eighth track on the album and is arranged between "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" and "Southampton Dock".The song is also featured on the Pink Floyd compilationsEchoes: The Best of Pink Floyd[3]andA Foot in the Door – The Best of Pink Floyd.[4]
History
[edit]The song is about Waters' frustration with the leadership of the world sinceWorld War II,[5]mentioning many world leaders by name (Ronald Reagan,Alexander Haig,Menachem Begin,Margaret Thatcher,Ian Paisley,Leonid Brezhnev,Joseph McCarthyandRichard Nixon), suggesting that these "colonial wasters of life and limb" be segregated into a specially-foundedretirement home.It labels all the world leaders as "overgrown infants" and "incurable tyrants" and suggests they are incapable of understanding anything other than violence or their own faces on a television screen.[6]
In its concluding lines, the narrator of the song gathers all of the "tyrants" inside the Fletcher Memorial Home and imagines applying "theFinal Solution"to them.[6]
Fletcherin the name of the song is in honour andremembranceof Roger Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, who was killed during theSecond World WaratAnzio.[5]
The Fletcher Memorial Home scenes inThe Final Cutfilmwere filmed atForty HallinEnfield.
Reception
[edit]In a review forThe Final Cut,Patrick Schabe ofPopMattersdescribed "The Fletcher Memorial Home" as "majestic, but clunky".[7]
Personnel
[edit]- Roger Waters– vocals, bass guitar
- David Gilmour– guitar
- Nick Mason– drums
with:
- TheNational Philharmonic Orchestraconducted and arranged byMichael Kamen
- Michael Kamen – piano
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Mabbett, Andy (1995).The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd.London: Omnibus.ISBN071194301X.OCLC32740297.
- ^Strong, Martin Charles(2004).The Great Rock Discography(7th ed.). New York: Canongate U.S. p. 1177.ISBN1841956155.OCLC56977197.
- ^"Echoes: The Album Credits".Pink Floyd. Archived fromthe originalon 2 June 2010.Retrieved4 November2019.
- ^"A Foot in the Door: The Best of Pink Floyd".AllMusic.Retrieved4 November2019.
- ^ab"The Fletcher Memorial Home by Pink Floyd".Songfacts.Retrieved4 November2019.
- ^abThe Fletcher Memorial Home(short film). 1983.
- ^Schabe, Patrick (3 August 2004)."Pink Floyd: The Final Cut".PopMatters.Retrieved4 November2019.
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