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Roger Waters offered a touching rendition of Pink Floyd‘s “Wish You Were Here” at a benefit concert in London. Listen to his appearance at the Stand Up For Palestine concert below, beginning at the 1:43 mark. “People sometimes think ‘Wish You Were Here’ is a lament for a dead childhood friend of mine, Syd Barrett,” Waters said while introducing the song. “Well, guess what? Sometimes it is, but not tonight. Tonight is for Palestine. We are also engaged here tonight in part of a larger existential battle for the very soul of the human race.” The concert, held Friday at the St. Pancreas Church, a...
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Eric Clapton has expressed support for Roger Waters‘ to voice his outspoken political views. Waters has been accused multiple times over years of making alleged antisemitic remarks and actions at his concerts. In 2023, he drew criticism for wearing a Nazi-like costume during his performance in Berlin, which prompted an investigation by the German police. Additionally, his concert in Frankfurt, Germany, was nearly canceled, but he was ultimately permitted to perform. Also in 2023, Waters was condemned by the U.S. State Department, which said that the artist has “a long track record of using ant...
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Susan Sarandon has been dropped by top Hollywood agency UTA amid her ‘anti-Semitism’ storm. The 77-year-old ‘Dead Man Walking’ actress has stunned her industry and fans by spending the past few weeks raging against Israel and is now under fire for her latest outburst in the wake of the October 7 massacre by Hamas, after saying Jews are “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America”. Page Six has now reported she has been dropped from UTA as “several staffers were extremely hurt” by her comments. A UTA spokesperson told the outlet the agency is no longer representing the star, who ha...
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Sinéad O’Connor thought ageing rockers including Roger Waters were “old farts”. The ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ singer, found dead in London on 26 July aged 56, was one of a string of A-list guests who played with the Pink Floyd frontman, 79, at an iconic gig in Berlin in 1990 when he mounted a rendition of the band’s landmark album ‘The Wall’. Roger told ‘Uncut’ magazine in a 2008 interview that has resurfaced since Sinéad’s death about how she wound him up with her attitude to the old rockers she joined at the concert, including The Band, when she was aged 24: “She was so worried that there weren...
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While performing the song “In the Flesh?” in Berlin, Roger Waters dressed up in a costume that resembled a Nazi SS uniform. Martin Halweg, a spokesman for the German police, said that they were investigating Waters on “suspicion of incitement to public hatred” under German laws against antisemitism and promoting Nazi imagery. This caused protests over Waters’ shows in Munich and Frankfurt. His concert in Frankfurt was particularly controversial because it took place at Festhalle, a venue where German Jews were sent during the November pogrom in 1938. The mayor of Frankfurt attempted to cancel ...
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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has won the right to perform in Frankfurt after his show there was cancelled and he was branded one of the "world's most widely spread antisemites". The 79-year-old musician's 'This Is Not A Drill' tour was due to call at the German city's Festhalle venue on May 28, but last month, the city council and the Hessian state government agreed to cancel the show to "set an example against antisemitism". Four days later, Munich City Council introduced a motion to cancel a concert scheduled for May 21 at the city's Olympiahalle. However, Frankfurt’s administrative co...
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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has vowed to take legal action after local officials in Frankfurt cancelled one of his gigs and branded him one of the "world's most widely spread antisemites". The 79-year-old musician's 'This Is Not A Drill' tour was due to call at the German city's Festhalle venue on 28 May but last month, the city council and the Hessian state government agreed to cancel the show to "set an example against antisemitism". Four days later, Munich City Council introduced a motion to cancel a concert scheduled for 21 May at the city's Olympiahalle. And now Waters - who has fa...
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Roger Waters has been branded a "wall of Russian disinformation and propaganda" by Ukraine's ambassador to the UN. The Pink Floyd co-founder has faced criticism after he told the United Nations Security Council that Russia's invasion of the country was "not unprovoked" when he was invited to give an address to the 15-member body by Moscow. Roger said in a video link: "The invasion was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Also, the invasion was not unprovoked. I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms." The 79-year-old musician also took a swipe at the Se...
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David Gilmour’s wife has accused his former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters of being an anti-Semite. Polly Samson claims that bassist Waters, 79, holds anti-Semitic views and is a "Vladimir Putin apologist", and her guitarist husband Gilmour, 76, shared her message on Twitter along with the statement "every word demonstrably true". The author-and-lyricist - who worked with her husband on songs for Pink Floyd's 1994 album 'The Division Bell' - appeared to be responding to an interview Waters gave to a German newspaper, in which he defended some of Russia's actions in the war with Ukraine. Wate...
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Jim Carrey and Margaret Atwood are among 100 Canadians now banned from entering Russia. President Vladimir Putin has forbidden a whole host of celebrities from stepping foot on Russian land for siding with Ukraine amid his invasion of the neighbouring country, and now a number of Canadians are on a new blacklist from Moscow. The 60-year-old Canadian-American actor and the 82-year-old Canadian poet and author - who penned 'The Handmaid's Tale' - join American stars such as Ben Stiller and Sean Penn in being prohibited from stepping foot in the European country. The list comes as Canada sent $50...
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