5:11AM (The Moment of Clarity)

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  Seven Songs for the Week #100 - 5th Mar 24

  Jason Carty

  As a teenage Pink Floyd fan, the next step on from The Wall and The Final Cut was to get The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking - Roger Waters' first proper solo album and the release that was supposed to make Rog an even bigger deal than Pink Floyd. It's a terrible album title. The cover is downright lousy, awful awful awful. The album is boring as hell. I have never been able to get into it.

  Separately I was reading about The Wall film and this song is in it, sort of. The legend is that Pros & Cons was written at the same time as The Wall and Floyd were asked to chose one to record. They made the right choice. In The Wall movie, Bob Geldof in the role of Pink hides in a toilet cubicle and reads songs from a notebook, and this gets an airing. It's short!