Roger Waters denied 10/7. Here’s why Israeli radio should keep playing his songs.
Art by “patently insufferable” people can nonetheless make us understand ourselves better
Art by “patently insufferable” people can nonetheless make us understand ourselves better
The 78-year-old made his name with Pink Floyd, but his vocal opposition to Israel has complicated his relationship with his Jewish fans
Try as hard as they might, Pink Floyd is the band that refuses to die. The group’s founder and original visionary, Syd Barrett, called it quits in 1968, and by any rights it should have ended there. Yet the group has survived the loss of two frontmen and other founding members, and has endured changing…
Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters says that he failed to convince the British rock group Radiohead to back out of its Tel Aviv show in protest of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. “I have engaged in a correspondence with some of Radiohead and they seem to have decided that they’re going to go ahead and…
With his calls to make “America First,” demand for a ‘Muslim ban,’ and attacks on Mexican immigrants, Donald Trump has inspired an endless number of Nazi comparisons in the run-up to the election. Add Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd bassist, to the list of those who think the Republican nominee’s speeches could be translated from…
Two singing Israeli rabbis, Aryeh and Gil Gat, have created an almost spot-on rendition of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here,” captured in this performance on a Jerusalem street. The brothers won the hearts of Israeli TV viewers when they competed in 2013 in Israel’s reality music competition, Rising Star. “The power of music is…
(JTA) — Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters is said to have written “The Wall” in 1979 as a metaphor for his internal isolation. But in recent years, he has increasingly politicized the seminal album, particularly to criticize Israel’s polices toward the Palestinians. In an interview with Rolling Stone on Monday, Waters said the message…
Try as hard as they might, Pink Floyd is the band that refuses to die. The group’s founder and original visionary, Syd Barrett, called it quits in 1968, and by any rights it should have ended there. Yet the group has survived the loss of two frontmen and other founding members, and has endured changing…
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