23 May 1982
Pink Floyd's The Wall film premiered at the 35th Cannes Film Festival in the South of France.
July 1982
Pink Floyd began five months of intermittent recording on their next album, The Final Cut. The sessions
took place at various studios, including Abbey Road, Olympic, Mayfair, RAK, Eel Pie, Audio International, and David Gilmour's
home studio, Hookend, and Roger Waters' home studio, The Billiard Room. The band were minus Richard Wright, but worked with additional
musicians: Michael Kamen and Andy Bown (keyboards); Raphael Ravenscroft (sax); Ray Cooper (percussion); Andy Newmark (drums); and the National
Philharmonic Orchestra.
26 July 1982
Pink Floyd released a single, When The Tigers Broke Free (B-side: Bring The Boys Back Home), in the UK and US. The single charted in
the UK at No. 39. The song featured on the movie of The Wall, but did not appear on any Pink Floyd album until the 2001 compilation, Echoes.
