The Fletcher Memorial Home
| The Fletcher Memorial Home | |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | |
| publication | March 21, 1983 (UK); April 2, 1983 (US) |
| length | 4:12 |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock , progressive rock |
| Author (s) | Roger Waters |
| album | The Final Cut |
The Fletcher Memorial Home is a song by Roger Waters and was played by Pink Floyd . The song appeared on the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut in 1983 . The song was later also released on the Pink Floyd compilation albums Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd and The Best of Pink Floyd - A Foot in the Door .
Emergence
The play is about Waters' frustration with world leaders since World War II. The names in the text are also named accordingly ( Ronald Reagan , Alexander Haig , Menachem Begin , Margaret Thatcher , Ian Paisley , Leonid Brezhnev , Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon ). Waters suggests in the lines of verse that the "colonial wasters of life and limb" be brought into a specially furnished old people's home. He describes the leaders as "overgrown infants" (adult infants) and "incurable tyrants" (incurable tyrants), and proposes that these people are not able to understand anything other than violence or their own faces on the Television screen. In the closing lines of the piece, Waters leads the "Tyrants" into the Fletcher Memorial Home and imagines the "Final Solution" being applied to them. The name Fletcher in the song is an honor and a memory of Roger Waters father, Eric Fletcher Waters, who died in 1944 in Anzio , Italy during World War II .
Musician
- Roger Waters - vocals, bass
- David Gilmour - guitar
- Nick Mason - drums
along with:
- The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen
- Michael Kamen - piano
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Fletcher Memorial Home by Pink Floyd , at Songfacts.com (English)
- ↑ a b The Fletcher Memorial Home by Pink Floyd