It was one of the biggest breakups in rock history. After creating a catalog of desert island albums, Pink Floyd was torn apart by bitter feuding, behind-the-scenes schemes, and as one band member described it, “borderline megalomania.” Sadly, the inability of its two principal members Roger Waters and David Gilmour to put their differences aside made it impossible to continue. Roger Waters said that Pink Floyd was all him and tried to dissolve the band to go solo… David Gilmour and Nick Mason kept the outfit going while Waters scoffed that they couldn’t survive without him.. they answered with the 1987 record a Momentary Lapse of Reason that returned them to #1 on the rock charts with Learning to Fly and On the Turning Away. The story of the battle of Pink Floyd.

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In a perfect world, it would’ve been #1 on both the rock and pop charts as it was a great comeback for a band that in the preceding years… had been through the gauntlet….

At some point in the 1970s, Roger Waters decided that he alone was Pink Floyd. And after being the driving conceptual force behind monumental albums like The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall, this was the conclusion he came to. Roger Waters was a brilliant lyricist and storyteller. But for all Pink Floyd’s success, it was never all Waters. David Gilmour was a prodigious talent on guitar and beyond, and drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright brought so much to the music beyond waters.

Waters however, was convinced that he was the only ‘idea man.’ And after the big bust-up of 79, when Waters fired Wright from the band, things just got tougher, especially between Gilmour and Waters. Roger began consolidating power during the creation of 1983’s The Final Cut. The album consisted entirely of Roger’s writing and apart from his guitar solos, David’s input was minimized. According to Nick Mason, Roger was studiously ignoring all of David’s suggestions. Waters also took on the bulk of the vocal duties himself, leaving David to sing only one song on the record, ‘Not Now John’. Which is a huge waste of talent. I Love both Roger and David’s voices and to have Gilmour so under-represented was just wrong.

Said Mason, “It may well have been paranoia, but it did look as though David was being frozen out.” With no writing contribution at all from David his role was inevitably eroded and what ensued was a massive argument about credits. Eventually, David’s name disappeared, although it was agreed that he would still be paid. But Mason had his own problems as well. Before he even started work on The Final Cut, Roger announced rather aggressively that since Mason was only drumming, he couldn’t claim extra royalties or credit for the record. Nick described Roger’s behavior as bordering on megalomania.