Former Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour tweeted support for Ukraine on Tuesday. “Russian soldiers, stop killing your brothers,” he wrote. “There will be no winners in this war.” He punctuated his message by saying, “Putin must go.” In the tweet, he included the lyric video for his 2015 antiwar song, …
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Pink Floyd did an incredibly poor job documenting their Seventies stadium tours, leaving it up to their fans to preserve them in video and audio form for future generations. Unfortunately, amateur recording equipment of the era was difficult to sneak past security, let alone operate properly, and your average Floyd …
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Earlier this week, Roger Waters blasted Facebook for daring to approach him about the use of his song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” in an advertisement for Instagram. “It arrived this morning, with an offer for a huge, huge amount of money,” Waters said at a pro–Julian Assange …
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It’s a late-May afternoon, and Polly Samson and her husband, former Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour, are seated side-by-side for a Zoom interview in what looks like a Greek restaurant with brick walls and windows fashioned in ornate geometric shapes. It’s the perfect setting to discuss Samson’s latest novel, A …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by none other than rock legend Roger Waters. For Democrats Suck, Matt critiques Joe Biden‘s appointment of Rick Stengel, who will be on the President-elect’s transition team for the U.S. Agency for Global Media. …
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Polly Samson — wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and his long-time co-lyricist — originally planned on promoting her new novel Theater for Dreamers with a large public event at Central Hall Westminster in London this week. When coronavirus shut-in orders made that impossible, she set up a livestream …
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Pink Floyd have unveiled the “2019 remix” for their A Momentary Lapse of Reason closer “Sorrow,” from the band’s upcoming box set The Later Years. The “updated and remixed” version of 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason is among the highlights from the 5-CD/6-Blu-ray/5-DVD set, with guitarist David Gilmour and …
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