Roger Waters convened a meeting with David, Nick and Steve O'Rourke about the group's future. This meeting takes place in a Japanese restaurant at the end of 1984. According to the drummer, bassist was the will to clearly dissolve the group (partly to solve his dispute with Steve )

March 1985. Roger Waters is organising a new leg. On the eve of his new tour CBS sends a letter to Roger asking him if he has plans to release an album of Floyd arguing difficulties in sales of his recent album and tour. In the meantime, Waters multiplied statements indicating that the group is over.

In July 1985, Gilmour took part in the "live aid" with Bryan Ferry (Waters was backstage and attended Ferry's concert). David, who at the time was thinking of making a third solo record, met Jon Carin on this occasion.  He invited the keyboardist to come and jam with him in his studio. 

It is interesting to see that David also played with Andy Newmark who had just finished the 1985 part of the TP&Cons tour but also Chester Kamen who in 2002 will join Roger Waters on his The Flesh Tour

29 July 1985, Nick Mason and Rick Feen release their LP « Profiles » who feature David Gilmour on vocals for « Lie for a lie ». It’s the first recording with members of Floyd since 2 years.

At the middle of 1985, As rumours of a split spread in the press, the members did not endorse the idea of a split, even if it appears that the Floyd members let it show that it is impossible to continue together

But, at the end of 1985, Roger Waters is contacted to work on the soundtrack of an anti- nuclear cartoon : «When the Wind Blows». It seems that the release of the soundtrack is why Roger Waters became more radical towards his situatio among the band Although Nick and Dave indicate to the press Pink Floyd still exist all along the year 1985, on 1st December 1985, Roger issued a statement to EMI and CBS invoking the Leaving Member' clause on his contract

The activation of this clause looks like a de facto bluff to act out the end of the group. Not believing that David and Nick could continue the band's adventure, Roger has de facto self-assumed the right to take over the band.

On early 1986 Waters saw that his management contract binding him O'Rourke ended. He would resign with a new contract with the latter holding that there was no future for the group and therefore no longer wished to donate his share of royalties to the manager. 

Steve O'Rourke found that the contract was broken illegally; Indeed, the signing of the four was required that this be to extend or reject the management contract, or other members could not bring himself to break it.

As of February, while waiting to see what David and Nick would eventually do, Roger wants to pre-empt Bob Ezrin for his future project «Radio KAOS», also to cut off the possibility for David to lean on a competent producer who helped him finish his last solo record «About Face».

The strategic dimension appears to be decisive since the ex-Floyd frontman had blacklisted the Canadian producer at the very beginning of «The Wall» tour and had chosen Michael Kamen to produce the two following records («The Final Cut» and «The pros and cons of hitch-hiking»)

Come early April, Waters found it impossible to contact Bob Ezrin.

O'Rourke was preparing to continue Waters about the management contract that bound them and the payment of overdue royalties. Indeed, Waters left the semi-official way group (he’s still in the management structure) but does not pay his share to O'Rourke because no longer produced anything under the name Pink Floyd.  Waters saw that his management contract binding him O'Rourke ended. He would re-sign with a new contract with the latter holding that there was no future for the group and therefore no longer wished to donate his share of royalties to the manager. O'Rourke found that the contract was broken illegally; Indeed, the signing of the four was required that this be to extend or reject the management contract, or other members could not bring himself to break it. Waters then offered a series of compromises even leading him to give the benefit of the group name to other members if they agreed that he resigns of his contract. Mason tells in his book dinner at Roger for all they land Steve O'Rourke home Floyd. By doing this, Waters took a calculated risk, believing that Gilmour and Mason would never have dared continue without him.

Waters later admitted a certain inconsistency during this period. He was indeed suing the two musicians for the use of the name of the group whereas he had proposed a little earlier to leave them. But he had done it «to be finally quiet».