The song's title character is a transvestite whose hobby is stealing women's clothes and undergarments from washing lines. According to Roger Waters, "Arnold Layne" was actually based on a real person: "Both my mother and Syd's mother had students as lodgers because there was a girls' college up the road so there were constantly great lines of bras and knickers on our washing lines and 'Arnold' or whoever he was, had bits off our washing lines."

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall

"Great Gig in the Sky" is one of the few Pink Floyd songs to use a female vocal. The band wanted a girl who could sing like she was having an orgasm. Their engineer, Alan Parsons, brought in a singer he knew named Clare Torry who provided the hauntingly beautiful improvised vocal on the song. Originally, she was paid only £30 for her studio work. Thirty years later, she would sue Pink Floyd on the basis that her contribution to the song constituted co-authorship with keyboardist Richard Wright.

Longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson provided the album artwork. He erected two large metal heads, each the height of a double-decker bus, in a field near Ely. The sculptures were positioned together and photographed in profile, and can be seen as two faces talking to each other or as a single, third face. Thorgerson said the "third absent face" was a reference to Syd Barrett.

The Final Cut was the last Pink Floyd album to feature founding member Roger Waters, who departed in 1985. It is also the only Pink Floyd album not to feature keyboardist Richard Wright, who was fired during the Wall sessions. The recording was plagued by conflict. Guitarist David Gilmour felt many of the tracks were not worthy of inclusion, but Waters accused him of failing to contribute material himself. Drummer Nick Mason's contributions were mostly limited to sound effects.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert documentary film featuring Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy. Although the band performs a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew. A number of bands have taken inspiration from the film in creating their own videos, or filming concerts without an audience.

Despite the incredible success of their albums, Pink Floyd's one and only No. 1 single in the UK, the United States, West Germany and many other countries was "Another Brick in the Wall: Part 2", which sold over four million copies worldwide.

"One of These Days" is the opening track from Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle. The composition is instrumental except for a single spoken line from drummer Nick Mason: "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces."

At a dinner one night, writer Douglas Adams, spurred by the promise of a payment to his favorite charity, the Environmental Investigation Agency, suggested The Division Bell, a term which appears in the album's final song: "High Hopes". Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all long gone, but the pain lingers on
Goodbye, blue sky
Goodbye, blue sky
Goodbye