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"Southampton Dock" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album, The Final Cut.[1][2] In World War II, many soldiers departed from Southampton to fight against the Germans. In the eighties, Southampton was again used as a departure base, this time for the Falklands War. The song describes a woman who "bravely waves" the soldiers "Goodbye again".

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"Southampton Dock"
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Final Cut
Published	Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
Released	21 March 1983 (UK) 2 April 1983 (US)
Recorded	July–December 1982
Genre	Folk rock, art rock
Length	2:10
Label	Harvest Records (UK) Columbia Records (US)
Songwriter(s)	Roger Waters
Producer(s)	Roger Waters James Guthrie Michael Kamen

The song includes a snippet of the theme from the track "It's Never Too Late", a song originally written and recorded for The Wall but was cut before the final band production demo of August 12, 1979. "It's Never Too Late" was later reworked and the melody was incorporated into the second section of "Southampton Dock".[3]

Roger Waters repeatedly performed the song on his solo tours; a live recording (prefaced by "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert", another song from The Final Cut) appears on his album In the Flesh – Live.

Reception

In a review for The Final Cut, Patrick Schabe of PopMatters described "Southampton Dock" as an example of where the album works best, and described the song's imagery as "subtle, poetic, and effective."[4]

Personnel

• Roger Waters – acoustic guitar, bass and vocals

with:

• Michael Kamen – piano and orchestrations

References

На других языках

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- [en] Southampton Dock

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[es] Southampton Dock

"Southampton Dock" es una canción del álbum The Final Cut de 1983, de Pink Floyd. Aunque la banda nunca la tocó en vivo, sí lo hizo Roger Waters por su cuenta, casi siempre en un "Medley" con "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert", también de The Final Cut. Uno de esos medley fue incluido en el DVD In the Flesh Live de Roger Waters. Y Waters también la tocó en su "2006-2007 The Dark Side of the Moon Live tour".

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[ru] Southampton Dock

«Southampton Dock» (с англ. — «Саутгемптонский причал») — песня британской прогрессивной рок-группы Pink Floyd с альбома The Final Cut[1][2]. Во время Второй мировой войны многие солдаты ушли из Саутгемптона воевать против немцев. В восьмидесятых годах Саутгемптон снова использовался в качестве базы отправления, на этот раз для Фолклендской войны. В песне описывается женщина, которая «храбро машет» (с англ. — «bravely waves») солдатам «Ещё раз до свидания» (с англ. — «Goodbye again»).

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