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Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert

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Recorded
  
July–December 1982

Length
  
~1:19

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Writer(s)
  
Roger Waters

Released
  
21 March 1983 (UK) 2 April 1983 (US)

Label
  
Harvest Records (UK) Capitol Records (US)

"Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album, The Final Cut.

A sound effect used in this song was later used as a segue on Roger Water's 1992 solo album Amused to Death, branching the two part song "Late Home Tonight."

The lyrics of this song list a number of world leaders and conflicts they have been involved in; including Leonid Brezhnev and his invasion of Afghanistan, Menachem Begin and his attack on Beirut, Leopoldo Galtieri invading the Falkland Islands and Margaret Thatcher's counter-attack which sparked the Falklands War.

Personnel

  • Roger Waters – Vocals, guitar
  • Nick Mason – Tape effects
  • with

  • Michael Kamen – Orchestrations
  • References

    Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert Wikipedia