Did Pink Floyd Ever Officially Call Anything a 'Farewell'?
No. Pink Floyd never stamped any album or tour with the word “farewell.” Not even The Division Bell tour in 1994, which every band member quietly treated as the end of the road. The closest they came was a sad shrug.
They avoided the term for two reasons. First, money. Bands that announce “farewell” tours often come back, and Pink Floyd hated looking like a cash-grab (even when they arguably were). Second, the band never actually broke up in one clean moment. David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright kept the legal entity alive through the 2000s, and Gilmour himself said in 1994 that he didn’t want to rule out future work. But internally they all knew—no more albums. No more tours. Just Live 8 in 2005 and a one-off charity show in 2007.
Roger Waters, though? He had no problem using the word. His The Wall tours in 2010–2013 were explicitly called his “final farewell” to the album. But that was Roger’s show, not Pink Floyd’s. The band preferred to let the silence speak for itself.
