The wife of Pink Floyd’s guitarist has put another brick in the wall of preventing the influential band’s reunion – and her husband is in complete agreement.
Polly Samson, the wife of Dave Gilmour, accused his former bandmate Roger Waters on social media of being antisemitic and an apologist for Vladimir Putin. Gilmour, who joined the band in 1967, echoed her words, sharing her message and simply tweeting: “Every word demonstrably true.”
Samson, an author and lyricist who has worked with Gilmour on Pink Floyd tracks, appeared to be responding to an interview Waters gave to a German newspaper.
On Sunday, Waters tweeted a link to the article and wrote that it had been published “against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the ISRAELI LOBBY to denounce me as an ANTISEMITE, WHICH I AM NOT, NEVER HAVE BEEN and NEVER WILL BE”....
Waters, who is involved in a campaign to boycott Israel and its products, also said that he stood by his comparison of Israel with Nazi Germany because “Israelis are committing genocide”.
Hours after Waters posted the link Samson tweeted: “Sadly Roger Waters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” adding that he was a “Putin apologist”....
Last year Gilmour, who has Ukrainian family members, recorded a song with Mason to raise money for Ukrainian humanitarian relief. The track, Hey Hey Rise Up, which sampled performances of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, frontman of the Ukrainian rock band Boombox, raised more than half a million pounds.
When the song was released Gilmour said Waters’s comments in defence of Russia’s actions had been “disappointing”.
It's about time David Gilmour showed a bit of backbone. "Disappointing"?? Waters is a nasty straight-up hard left the-west-is-always-to-blame idiot, on Ukraine as on Syria; reliably pro-Putin and of course above all a hater of Israel. If it takes his wife to push Gilmour into finding his voice at last, well, so be it. Better late than never.
Every word demonstrably true https://t.co/KWk4I3bMTN
— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) February 6, 2023
To say Pink Floyd's split was acrimonious is an understatement. Comments in the years since have shown there is no love lost. Yet they have joint stake in the legacy of the band.
I suspect that like divorcees discussing their children, they try to avoid saying things that create further animosity, not always successfully.
I can forgive David (at least to a point)
Posted by: TDK | February 07, 2023 at 10:39 AM
Fair enough. I can't say I've followed the details of the Pink Floyd split in any detail.
Posted by: Mick H | February 07, 2023 at 02:26 PM
I agree @TDK but at least I can finally stumble upon a pink floyd song on the radio* and not turn it off.
*Happens a lot in Israeli station Kan 88fm and some other better ones.
Posted by: Shalev | February 08, 2023 at 04:53 PM