Defined “anti-Semitic to the core rotten” by the wife of David Gilmour, the rocker updates the music released 50 years ago, in the anthology ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’
Even far from the other members of Pink Floyd, with increasingly divergent opinions from the former partner david gimour regarding the war in Ukraine, for example, roger waters resurfaced this Friday the 3rd, with a re-recording of one of the group’s biggest hits. Us and themreleased on the album The dark side of the moon, which turned 50 this week, has had its lyrics rewritten by Waters. He posted a video listening to the new song in front of a soundboard and justified the act of recreation, according to him, done to “re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album”. A new version of the album The dark side of the moon was being prepared by Waters for a May release. The original 1973 album spent an impressive 555 weeks on the charts and became the fourth best-selling album in history, behind thrillerby Michael Jackson; Back into the dark, from AC/DC; and the soundtrack of The bodyguard.
Waters’ message in full, placed just below the video by Us and themis as follows: “We are now in the process of finalizing the final mix. It turned out really great and I’m thrilled for everyone to hear it. (The new recording) It doesn’t replace the original which, of course, is irreplaceable. But it’s a way for man to 79 years of looking at the 50 years that have passed in the eyes of a 29-year-old man and saying, quoting a poem of mine about my father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our father would have been proud of us. ‘ way to honor a recording that Nick, Rick, Dave and I have every right to be proud of”he wrote, citing his group mates.
Opinions on the new version of Us and them apart from that, a known fact is that Waters has increasingly distanced himself from the other musicians who came out of Pink Floyd. Last month, David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson accused Roger Waters of being “anti-Semitic to the core. Also a Putin apologist and a liar, thief, hypocrite, tax evader, voice actor, misogynist, jealous, megalomaniac.” To make matters worse, Gilmour signed below: “Every word is patently true.”
In response, bassist Waters, who wrote many of the group’s songs, said his former bandmates “can’t write songs and have nothing to say. They’re not artists! They have no ideas, not one of their own. Never had, and it drives them crazy.” And it was the turn of Nick Mason, the drummer who rarely puts himself in the front line during fights. “I think the problem is that Roger doesn’t really respect David. He feels that writing is everything, and that playing guitar and singing are things that, I’m not saying anyone can do, but that everything should be judged by the writing and not the performance.” .
Roger Waters’ historic attacks on Israeli policy towards Palestine – which had already made him ask Gilberto Gil not to perform in the Jewish country and to launch a worldwide cultural boycott campaign against Israel – generated an effect of attacks against himself. Many believe Waters is an anti-Semitic man, especially after he claims that Israel is “a supremacist colonialist project operating an apartheid system.” But the rocker refuted the allegations, telling the Telegraph newspaper that “there isn’t a single millisecond of anti-Semitism anywhere in my life.”
However, the image of being anti-Jewish starts to mess with their agenda. Authorities in Frankfurt, Germany, this week canceled a concert that Waters was to play in the city, thus justifying the decision: “persistent anti-Israel behavior on the part of the former leader of Pink Floyd, considered one of the most notorious anti-Semites in the world”.
The war in Ukraine is another point which has become sensitive in your positions. When they teamed up in April last year to compose a song, their first in 28 years, Gilmour and Manson told The Guardian that the Russian invasion was “an extraordinarily insane and unjust attack by a great power against an independent and peaceful nation”. democratic”. A position that distances itself from the one assumed by Waters at the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Early in the war, Waters condemned the Russian attitude and called Putin a “gangster”. But, each time, he makes his change of heart clear. For him, Ukraine has “the Nazis in control of the government”. Speaking to the Telegraph, he expanded on his views by saying that Ukraine “isn’t really a country … it would be more of a patchy kind of loose experiment.” And he condemned countries that offer arms to the invaded nation. “The most important reason for supplying arms to Ukraine is certainly profit for the arms industry…if the United States can convince its citizens, and you and many other people, that Russia is the real enemy, and that Putin is the new Hitler, it will be easier to steal from the poor to give to the rich and they will also start promoting other wars, like this proxy war in Ukraine.”
Invited by Russia to speak at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council last February, Waters lashed out at both sides, saying “the Russian invasion of Ukraine was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest terms. The Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not happen without provocation, so I condemn even the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms”.
Source: Terra
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