He condemned the Ukrainian war but disagrees with military retaliation.
PF and Waters had a semi recent spat over liner notes. It does get a little sticky when he was the self imposed leader and creative force on several albums.
Pink Floyd’s brand new song
Pink Floyd (Dave Gilmour and Nick Mason) with their bassist Guy Prat debuted a new song today. The singer is a Ukrainian from the band Boom Box collaborated with Pink Floyd to honor those lost in this senseless war. The lyrics are in Russian and it is a great tribute to the Ukrainian people. The name of the song is, “Hey, Hey Rise Up”
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It’s just awesome to see/hear Nick Mason and David Gilmour at it again since Endless River. They were smart enough to let to get a Ukrainian Artist to sing the lyrics. Pink Floyd as everyone here knows is also famous for soundtracks and that’s exactly what “the boys” provided here. Plodding or not. It’s one song FFS’s. On another topic. Sad that Peter Gabriel did not sing on the last song of the last Genesis show at the O2 Center. He was in attendance. A total reversal of the PF saga where RW assumed he was PF at point. Gabriel was never like that has always supported his fellow band mates whenever possible (Take Me Home - PC) and they him (1982’s WOMAD).
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Waters wrote most of Floyd's top recordings and he thought he was PF. Then he sued the remaining members to own the name PF. Well, it turned out he was not the sole owner of PF and that is the wedge that will never heal. |
Boy was I excited to hear something new from Pink Floyd. And for a cause, so very apropos.
Oh and @stereo5, Jeff Bezos was good enough to give away McKenzie Scott and she so far has given away almost |
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