You may recall how early last year, Polly Samson, the wife of Roger Waters’ ex Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour, tweeted how Waters was “antisemitic to [his] rotten core” (among other things) and David then retweeted her with the words “Every word demonstrably true.”
In a recent interview with MOJO magazine, David was asked about his tweet – and his response might just drive Waters to drink.
In spring 2022, Gilmour and Mason revived the Pink Floyd name for a single, Hey, Hey, Rise Up!, recorded with singer and military reservist Andriy Khlyvnyuk in protest at the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Speaking in an interview with the German newspaper, Berliner Zeitung in 2023, Waters dismissed the song as “content-less… flag waving”
Gilmour’s wife and co-writer Polly Samson responded with a post on Twitter condemning Waters as a “Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.” “Every word demonstrably true,” stated Gilmour in a follow-up tweet.
“That tweet was boiling up,” Gilmour tells Mark Blake in the latest issue of MOJO. “It had to come out – and I have no regrets about it. No regrets whatsoever.”
In June this year, Waters denied he was antisemitic during an interview with Piers Morgan on Talk TV and replied, “No comment, it’s private,” when asked to elaborate on his thoughts about the tweet.
Speaking to MOJO, Gilmour states that he didn’t watch Waters’ interview with Morgan, nor has he listened to his former bandmate’s recent, semi-spoken word remake of Pink Floyd classic 1973 album, The Dark Side Of The Moon, and finds being asked about his relationship with Waters “wearisome”.
“Do you know what decade of my life I was in when Roger left our pop group? My thirties. I am now 78,” says the guitarist. “Where’s the relevance?”
Just kidding, Waters doesn’t need anyone to drive him to drink – he takes the subway.
