The Final Cut - Original 1983 UK Harvest/EMI label 12-track LP - A-5U/B-4U matrix endings

Original 1983 UK Harvest/EMI label 12-track vinyl LP - the last studio album to include founding member, bass guitarist and songwriter Roger Waters - who left the band in 1985 - and the only Pink Floyd album that does not feature keyboardist Richard Wright.

Vinyl has custom picture labels with Manufactured In The UK rim print - housed in a polylined jet-black inner sleeve and ultimately in a glossy gatefold picture cover - with intact front sticker.

For those into the machine stamped matrix information:
Side 1: SHPF 1983 A-5U-1-1-Y-1.
Side 2: SHPF 1983 B-4U-1-3
 

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG++ (Inner Sleeve)/VG++ (Cover):
Vinyl is superlustrous and in extremely close to perfect condition - next to no sleeve wear - hardly noticeable. Side 1 label has a single small, short and superficial spindletrace - otherwise mint labels.
Cover is in plain close to perfect condition with only very faint signs of handling and storage - very nice.

Tracklisting

Side 1:
1. The Post War Dream 3:02
2. Your Possible Pasts 4:22
3. One Of The Few 1:23
4. The Hero's Return 2:56
5. The Gunner's Dream 5:07
6. Paranoid Eyes 3:40

Side 2:
1. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert 1:19
2. The Fletcher Memorial Home 4:11
3. Southampton Dock 2:13
4. The Final Cut 4:46
5. Not Now John 5:01
6. Two Suns In The Sunset 5:14

All songs are written and composed by Roger Waters

Recorded July - December 1982 across eight studios, including Gilmour's home studio at Hookend Manor, and Waters' Billiard Room Studios at East Sheen. The other venues were Mayfair Studios, Olympic Studios, Abbey Road Studios, Eel Pie Studios, Audio International and RAK Studios.

Vinyl is pressed at EMI Records - Factory, 1-3 Uxbridge Road, Hayes, Middlesex UB4 0SY, UK
Cover is manyfactured by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd., UK.

Credits:

Pink Floyd:
David Gilmour - guitar, vocals on "Not Now John"
Nick Mason - drums, percussion, sound effects (with holophonics)
Roger Waters - lead vocals, bass guitar, synthesiser, sound effects, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians:
Andy Bown - Hammond organ
Ray Cooper - percussion
Michael Kamen - piano, harmonium, conducting and arranging of the National Philharmonic Orchestra
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Andy Newmark - drums on "Two Suns in the Sunset"
Raphael Ravenscroft - Tenor saxophone

Technical credits:
James Guthrie - Production, engineering
Andrew Jackson - engineering

Artwork:
Willie Christie - photography
Roger Waters - cover artwork