| "The Hero's Return" | |
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_Pink_Floyd.jpg) "The Hero's Return (Parts 1 and 2)" on vinyl | |
| 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 | Art rock |
| Length | 2:56 4:02 ("Not Now John" single) |
| Label | Harvest Records (UK) Columbia Records (US) |
| Songwriter(s) | Roger Waters |
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"The Hero's Return" is a song by Pink Floyd from their 1983 album, The Final Cut.[1][2]
Like many tracks included on The Final Cut, "The Hero's Return" had – under its original title "Teacher, Teacher" – been previously rejected from The Wall. Guitarist David Gilmour was opposed to this recycling of songs, believing that if they "weren't good enough for The Wall, why are they good enough now?"[3]
Like many other tracks on The Final Cut, "The Hero's Return" featured anti-war lyrics. The lyrics of "The Hero's Return" are almost entirely rewritten from its "Teacher, Teacher" demo version.
Retitled as "The Hero's Return (Parts 1 and 2)" with an extra verse absent from The Final Cut version, the song was released as the B-side of "Not Now John", also from The Final Cut, in 1983. Despite not being released as an A-side to a single, "The Hero's Return" charted at #31 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in America.[4]
- ^ Strong 2004, p. 1177.
- ^ Mabbett 1995.
- ^ Blake 2008, p. 295.
- ^ AllMusic.