Roger Waters and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd are back to fighting once again. It got started again with Polly Samson, Gilmour’s wife who has previously written lyrics for Pink Floyd, Tweeting and calling Waters an “Anti-Semitic” and a “Putin apologist,” as well as, “lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.” Gilmour shared the post adding, “Every word demonstrably true.”
The latest feud is likely the result of Waters not being a part of the project “Hey Hey Rise Up.” Waters stated in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, “I have seen the video and I am not surprised, but I find it really, really sad,” he said. “It’s so alien to me, this action is so lacking in humanity. It encourages the continuation of the war. Pink Floyd is a name I used to be associated with. That was a huge time in my life, a very big deal. To associate that name now with something like this … proxy war makes me sad. I mean, they haven’t made the point of demanding, ‘Stop the war, stop the slaughter, bring our leaders together to talk!’ It’s just this contentless waving of the blue and yellow flag.”
Waters added in the Berliner Interview that political reasons were why he left Pink Floyd in 1985 stating, “I will not raise a flag in this conflict, Not a Ukrainian flag, not a Russian flag, not a U.S. flag.”
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