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Peter
Roger Waters Amused To Death
If the Ballad of Bill Hubbard didn't move you, you missed it: "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard" features a sample of WW1 veteran Alfred "Alf" Razzell, a member of the Royal Fusiliers (much like Waters' father Eric Fletcher Waters had been in the following war) who describes his account of finding fellow soldier William "Bill" Hubbard, to whom the album is dedicated, severely wounded on the battlefield. After failed attempts to take him to safety, Razzell is forced to abandon him in no-man's land. This sample is continued at the end of the title track, at the very end of the album, providing a more upbeat coda to the tragic story." from antiwarsongs.org |