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The Ballad of Bill Hubbard

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
1992


Album "Amused to Death", 1992

 

The song, "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard", features a sample of World War I veteran Alfred "Alf" Razzell, a member of the Royal Fusiliers (much like Waters' father Eric Fletcher Waters had been in the following war) who describes his account of finding fellow soldier William "Bill" Hubbard, to whom the album is dedicated, severely wounded on the battlefield. After failed attempts to take him to safety, Razzell is forced to abandon him in no-man's land. This sample is continued at the end of the title track, at the very end of the album, providing a more upbeat coda to the tragic story.

 

 



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