They have been arguing for forty years now (the first time was in 1983, after «The Final Cut»), but if at the beginning their outbursts were mostly for work and musical reasons, recently Roger Waters and David Gilmour – or rather the two creative souls of Pink Floyd – they talk about each above all because of the political positions not exactly converging. The last contrast was on the war in Ukraine, with the guitarist who released a song in support of the cause of Kiev and the bassist who instead blamed the conflict “on Ukrainian nationalists”.
Harsh social reaction
«Putin has always stressed that he has no interest in conquering western Ukraine – Waters said in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung – nor in invading Poland or any other country across the border. He wants to protect Russian-speaking populations in those parts of Ukraine where Russian-speaking populations feel threatened by far-right governments influenced by the Maidan coup in Kiev. A coup widely accepted as having been orchestrated by the United States.” A stance – combined with that on Israel (“The Israelis are committing genocide. In my opinion, Israel has the right to exist as long as it is a true democracy. As long as no group, religious or ethnic, enjoys more rights than any other. But unfortunately this is exactly what is happening in Israel and Palestine», the judgment of the singer) – which triggered the harsh social reaction of Polly Samson who, in addition to being co-author of some Pink songs Floyd, is also Gilmour’s wife.
The insults
“Unfortunately Roger Waters you are anti-Semitic to the core. You are also a Putin apologist and a liar, a thief, a hypocrite, a tax evader and lip-synch, a misogynist, a pathological envious, a megalomaniac. We’ve had enough of your bullshit,” Samson wrote https://twitter.com/PollySamson/status/1622513762602205184 who, among the many “likes”, received one that could not go unnoticed, since it came from Gilmour’s official account. In short, rags continue to fly between the guitarist and Waters and it seems unlikely that we will be able to see them play together at least one last time, even if the fans continue to hope for a miracle.
