When the Tigers Broke Free

"When the Tigers Broke Free"
Single by Pink Floyd
B-side"Bring the Boys Back Home"
Released26 July 1982 (1982-07-26)
RecordedNovember 1981 – March 1982
GenreProgressive rock
Length3:16
LabelHarvest (UK)
Columbia (US)
SongwriterRoger Waters
Producers
Pink Floyd singles chronology
"Comfortably Numb"
(1980)
"When the Tigers Broke Free"
(1982)
"Not Now John"
(1983)
Official audio
"When the Tigers Broke Free" on YouTube

"When the Tigers Broke Free" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, written by Roger Waters. It describes the death of his father, Eric Fletcher Waters, on 18 February 1944, during the Battle of Anzio during the Italian campaign of the Second World War.