Corporal Clegg: Pink Floyd’s First War Song and the Kazoo Solo That Became a Fan Joke

“Corporal Clegg” is the first Pink Floyd song to explicitly address war, coming out on A Saucerful of Secrets in 1968 while the band was still shedding its psychedelic skin. Roger Waters wrote it about a fictional war veteran with a wooden leg and a medal from the Queen, poking at military pomp with lines like “He’s never been the same again” – a deadpan take on PTSD before they’d properly