Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar - or how things never change
: music, September 03 2020 ▶
It has been exactly 45 years since Roger Waters wrote "Have a Cigar", released in Pink Floyd's "Wish you were here"-mega-super-ultra-undying album. And it hits blunt. Even today. No, you are not going to find the music here - you are smart people - google it! As I am writing this, and for the past few days, I cannot stop thinking how contemporary the text is. Clearly, Waters is satirising the big music industry businessmen. But the feeling is more for a WallStreet-predators.
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think, Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?
...Yeaaah, you did amazing job, but we don't even care to get to know you (not that it matters...), as long as the money-train stops frequently at our station. And it is not even made-up. David Gilmour, 17 years later, said in an interview:
We did have people who would say to us "Which one's Pink" and stuff like that. There were an awful lot of people who thought Pink Floyd was the name of the lead singer ...
To me, this song is still the most striking one, shoulder-to-shoulder with "Welcome to the Machine". The whole album has only 5 songs and the cover continues the narrative with "the greed" and people, obsessed with money due to the lack of any other talent.