Earlier, he had supported the Russian annexation of Crimea, and criticized what he saw as Western “propaganda” against Russia. Waters had previously called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine “a criminal mistake in my opinion, the act of a gangster,” but advocated for negotiation rather than resistance. “This war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing all the way to the Russian border, which they promised they wouldn’t do,” he said. Meanwhile, Roger Waters stirred controversy last August during an interview with CNN in which he explained why he had shown the image of Joe Biden in his last tour under the slogan: “War criminal.” He explained that the US president was guilty of inflaming the conflict in Ukraine instead of forcing Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy to negotiate. ![]() We want to spread this message of peace, and we want to raise the morale of the people who are defending their homeland there in Ukraine. Justifying his decision, Gilmour told Rolling Stone: “When I spoke to Nick, and he said he was willing to do it as Pink Floyd, it seemed like a no-brainer. The question is why they didn’t just do the song under his own name. The song was Gilmour’s expression of sympathy for the country of his daughter-in-law, the mother of his granddaughters. The song is called Hey Hey Rise Up and is an explicit and passionate appeal to support the Ukrainian resistance against Russia. Meanwhile, a deal is underway for the sale of the band’s extensive catalog of songs for around €500 million.ĭespite announcing the band’s definitive end in 2014, Gilmour and Mason resurrected the group last April to do a track with Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk from Boombox. Now, Gilmour and Waters, are clashing again over politics: one supports the Ukrainian resistance and the other blames NATO, rather than Russia, for the conflict. His departure triggered a legal battle over the continued use of the name and material the bandmates won. Thirty-five years earlier, bassist and vocalist Roger Waters, the despotic frontman who took over from founder Syd Barrett in 1968, when Barret exited due to mental health problems, had left the band. ![]() Gilmour’s announcement was seen as a definitive farewell from the iconic progressive rock group, whose success peaked in the 1970s. ![]() Since the death of keyboard player, Richard Wright, in 2008, Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason have lost any desire to continue. Guitarist and singer David Gilmour announced the band’s break-up in 2014 after the release of the album The Endless River, which featured previously unreleased material from as far back as 1994. A new song, a controversy over the war in Ukraine and a big financial deal in the pipeline are some of the loose ends waiting to be tied up. Pink Floyd has made musical history, but the writing of it is not quite finished. The last image of David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright together, after Pink Floyd's performance at the Live 8 festival in London's Hyde Park on July 2, 2005.
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