Were departure threats made during Pink Floyd's 'Animals' sessions?

No one explicitly threatened to leave the band during the Animals sessions (1976–1977), but the sessions mark the point where the internal structure cracked in a way that never fully healed. Roger Waters wrote nearly all of the lyrics and the album’s Orwellian concept, while David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright contributed far less than they had on previous records. The band recorded in their own Britannia Row studio, often working in separate rooms—Waters and Gilmour argued over guitar solos, Wright felt his keyboard parts were being erased or ignored, and Mason later described the atmosphere as “frosty rather than hostile.”

The first actual departure threat came two years later, during The Wall. Wright was fired by Waters and manager Steve O’Rourke (though he returned as a session player for