And ‘Empty Spaces’ and another cut that used to be on there called ‘What Shall We Do Now’ are the same tune.
“ realized as we were mastering the thing that side two was just too long and we had to get rid of something. However, it was used in the soundtrack of the movie. The studio version has never been released on album, CD, or digital formats. Originally slated for the final release of the album, “What Shall We Do Now?” was cut days before the album was mastered due to time and mastering limitations of the vinyl format. Through at least the March, 1979 band production demo, its working title was “Backs To The Wall”. It’s one of the songs from the Bricks In The Wall original demo. It is more accurate to call it a missing brick. Considered the most evident “spare brick”, its removal was right there in plain sight on the album’s release as well as on many of the earlier repressings. “What Shall We Do Now?” is one of the classic, most well-known missing songs from The Wall. The studio version has never been released on album, CD, or digital and can only be found on the movie soundtrack. “What Shall We Do Now?” was cut just before release of The Wall.
