Recently he has also been a fierce critic of US President Donald Trump and delighted audiences in Mexico City last year with a rendition of the 1977 Pink Floyd song “Pigs (Three Different Ones)”, where he showed doctored images of Trump with a machine gun outside the White House and giving a Nazi salute. Waters’ anti-Israel activism has cost the British rock star millions of dollars and an American Express sponsorship, the New York Post reported in October. The Simon Wiesenthal Center called Waters “an open hater of Jews.” And the Anti-Defamation League’s then leader, Abraham Foxman, in an open letter to Waters at the time, said his “views on Israel are in fact colored by offensive and dangerous undercurrents of anti-Jewish sentiment.” In a 2013 concert in Brussels, Waters performed on a stage featuring a giant pig balloon emblazoned with a Star of David, among other symbols. Waters has been widely condemned for his anti-Israel activities and accused of espousing anti-Semitic symbols, though he has denied doing so. So take her gently to the death you so desire, and wait.” Wait for her in the evening at the spring, among perfumed roses.” But it ends with the lines “There is no one alive but the two of you. The love poem that inspired Waters begins with the lines “Wait for her with an azure cup. The poet was critical of Israel as well as of terror group Hamas, which currently rules the Gaza Strip.

Born in a village that later became part of northern Israel and a resident of countries including Lebanon, France and Jordan, he spent part of the last years of his life in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/David Furst)ĭarwish, who died in 2008, is considered a Palestinian national symbol and was a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He summed up his his attitude to Gilmour by saying, “You play the guitar and sing and do as you’re bloody well told.Roger Waters, British rock legend and co-founder of the group Pink Floyd, performs during a concert in Neve Shalom, 30 kms from Jerusalem in June 22, 2006. Meanwhile, in his interview with The Telegraph, Waters downplayed Gilmour’s contributions to the band. Enough of your nonsense.” Gilmore quoted his wife’s tweet, adding, “Every word demonstrably true.” “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. “Sadly you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” Samson tweeted.

On Monday, Gilmour and his wife Polly Samson blasted Waters on social media. Waters’ relationship with former Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour is particularly tense at the moment. “I have no idea,” Waters said when asked about potential copyright issues. However, Waters acknowledged that the band’s other surviving members could attempt to block its release. The plan is for Waters’ new version of The Dark Side of the Moon to be released in May alongside the staging of a big concert. Below, you can hear Waters’ newly recorded version of “Comfortably Numb,” which he shared late last year. Tristram Fane Saunders, who interviewed Waters for The Telegraph, was given a preview of the album and says “parts are very good indeed.” One notable change is the addition of Waters’ spoken-word poetry over the album’s instrumentals.

Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap! Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it,” Waters said in an interview with The Telegraph. With Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of Moon approaching its 50th anniversary, Roger Waters secretly re-recorded the album without the involvement or knowledge of any of his former bandmates. The post Roger Waters Re-Recorded Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon appeared first on Consequence.

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