| "The Hero's Return" | |
|---|---|
 "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 (Parts 1 and 2; "Not Now John" single b-side) |
| 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]
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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]
