rock group Pink Floyd, first released on 21 March 1983 by Harvest
Records in the UK. It was the band's last studio album to include
founding member Roger Waters, who received sole credit for writing and
composition. It is also the only Pink Floyd album to which keyboardist
Richard Wright did not contribute. Waters originally planned The Final
Cut as a soundtrack album for the 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall, but
with the onset of the Falklands War, he rewrote it as a concept album
and dedicated it to his father, who died during the Second World War.
Waters sang most of the lyrics and designed the packaging to reflect the
album's anti-war theme. The Final Cut was recorded from July to December
1982 in eight British studios, but the album's production was dominated
by interpersonal conflict, and Waters left the band in 1985. Although it
reached the top of the UK Albums Chart, the album received mixed
reviews.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(album)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
630:
Byzantine emperor Heraclius restored the True Cross to
Jerusalem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross>
1800:
After being elected as a compromise candidate after several
months of stalemate, Pope Pius VII was crowned in Venice with a
temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_VII>
1871:
Founder of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck was proclaimed
as its first Chancellor.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck>
1946:
The Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League signed
Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the
league since 1933.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Washington_(American_football)>
2006:
A man using a hammer smashed the statue of Phra Phrom in the
Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, and was subsequently beaten to death
by bystanders.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erawan_Shrine>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
make a spectacle of oneself:
(idiomatic, originally US) To embarrass oneself or others in public.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_a_spectacle_of_oneself>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is
going to be a journey that takes some time.
--Barack Obama
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama>
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