David Gilmour has mentioned there may be “no attainable method” that he would ever work along with his former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters once more.
The 2 artistic forces behind the legendary rock band have been publicly feuding for a lot of the time since Waters’ departure in 1985, with the dispute changing into political lately. Final yr, Gilmour said that he would slightly “avoid individuals who actively help genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin and Maduro” than reunite with Waters.
It seems that he has not softened his stance over the previous 12 months. In a brand new interview with The Telegraph, he was requested what it might take for him to hitch forces with Waters once more. “Nothing,” he replied. “There is no such thing as a attainable method that I might try this.”
Going into additional element within the 2024 interview, Gilmour defined: “Nothing would make me share a stage with somebody who thinks such therapy of girls and the LGBT neighborhood is OK. However, I’d like to be again on stage with [Pink Floyd keyboardist] Rick Wright, who was one of many gentlest and most musically gifted individuals I’ve ever identified.”
Gilmour’s spouse Olly Samson has additionally been vocally outspoken towards Waters’ politics, accusing him in 2023 of being “anti-Semitic to [his] rotten core” and “a Putin apologist and a mendacity, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac”. Gilmour re-shared Samson’s put up, including that “each phrase [is] demonstrably true”.
Waters himself issued a press release in response, during which he described Samson’s feedback as “incendiary and wildly inaccurate”, including that he “refutes [them] completely”. He additionally mentioned that he was “taking recommendation as to his place” concerning the claims.
Gilmour has additionally mentioned he finds it “wearisome” to have to speak about Waters. “Have you learnt what decade of my life I used to be in when Roger left our pop group? My thirties. I’m now 78. The place’s the relevance?” he advised Mojo in 2024. In a Rolling Stone interview, nevertheless, he additionally said that “someday there are issues I’ll discuss”.
Elsewhere, Pink Floyd bought their again catalogue for $400million in a cope with Sony final yr. Gilmour mentioned it was a transfer pushed primarily by his need to “get out of the mud tub that it has been for fairly some time”, slightly than a financially-motivated choice.
Gilmour launched the reside live performance movie of his ‘David Gilmour Dwell At The Circus Maximus, Rome’ on Blu-ray on Friday (October 17), whereas a fiftieth anniversary version of Pink Floyd’s ‘Want You Have been Right here’ is approaching December 12 as a deluxe field set.
Earlier this yr, Pink Floyd achieved their seventh UK Quantity One album with their reside file ‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII’.
