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I love to do naked cartwheels around my house whilst listening to this one.

I was going to post it in the Ukraine thread. It's the first song released under the Pink Floyd name in 28 years, so it's caused quite a buzz.

Roger Waters hasn't reunited with them for this one, no surprise because a week before the invasion he said only people with a room temperature IQ think that Russia will invade Ukraine. Now he has egg on his face.




Gilmour had closed the book on Pink Floyd after 2014’s The Endless River, which he and Mason had built from recordings made during the Division Bell sessions. But with “Hey, Hey, Rise Up,” he changed his mind. Pink Floyd rushed to release the song quickly to raise awareness for the civilians suffering in Ukraine and to raise money for humanitarian relief in the country.

“I hope the song does some good,” Gilmour tells Rolling Stone, explaining why he decided to resurrect Pink Floyd. “I hope we achieve something with it.”


What was it about Andriy’s video that inspired you to write a new Pink Floyd song?

It’s just very moving when you see Andriy standing in the square in Kyiv, in the midst of all this turmoil, and just opening his voice up for the hell of it and singing that rousing Ukrainian song to no one and to nothing.


Why was it important to release the song as Pink Floyd and not one of your own recordings?

Well, obviously, the following that we have as Pink Floyd — the size of the platform. When I spoke to Nick, and he said he was willing to do it as Pink Floyd, it seemed like a no-brainer. We want to spread this message of peace, and we want to raise the morale of the people who are defending their homeland there in Ukraine. So why not?