And the thought, also, that mine and Pink Floyd’s support of the Ukrainians could help boost morale in those areas: they need to know the whole world supports them.Īndriy Khlyvnyuk is greeted by a fan in Kyiv on 2 March. I wouldn’t do this with many more things, but it’s so vitally, vitally important that people understand what’s going on there and do everything within their power to change that situation. “It’s Pink Floyd if it’s me and Nick, and that is the biggest promotional vehicle that is, as I said, the platform that I’ve been working on for my whole adult life, since I was 21. I’d be really happy if you played on it and I’d also be really happy if you’d agree to us putting it out as Pink Floyd.’ And he was absolutely on for that. “I rang Nick up and said: ‘listen, I want to do this thing for Ukraine. They also shot a video for the song, with Mason playing a set of drums decorated with a painting by Ukrainian artist Maria Primachenko (the fate of her paintings remains unknown following the bombing of a museum in Ivankiv). She’s very old, disabled, in a wheelchair and has a carer, and Janina and her family managed to get her all the way across Ukraine to the Polish border and now they’ve managed to get her to Sweden, literally last week.”Īfter “finding the chords for what Andriy was singing and writing another section that I could be” – Gilmour rolls his eyes – “the rock god guitar player on”, he hastily convened a recording session last week with Mason, Pink Floyd’s longstanding bassist Guy Pratt, and musician, producer and composer Nitin Sawhney on keyboards, layering their music with Khlyvnyuk’s sampled voice Rick Wright’s daughter Gala also attended. My grandchildren are half-Ukrainian, my daughter-in-law Janina is Ukrainian – her grandmother was in Kharkiv until three weeks ago. “I hate it when people say things like ‘As a parent, I …’, but the practicalities of having an extended Ukrainian family is part of this. The invasion of Ukraine changed Gilmour’s mind. The frustration of seeing that and thinking ‘what the fuck can I do?’ is sort of unbearable.”ĭavid Gilmour recording the new Pink Floyd song. It’s a really difficult and frustrating thing to see this extraordinarily crazy, unjust attack by a major power on an independent, peaceful, democratic nation. “I’ve got a big platform that have worked on for all these years. “I thought: that is pretty magical and maybe I can do something with this,” says Gilmour. On his Instagram, Gilmour found a video of the singer in military fatigues, a rifle slung over his shoulder, standing outside Kyiv’s St Sofia Cathedral, belting out an unaccompanied version of Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow, a 1914 protest song written in honour of the Sich Riflemen who fought both in the first world war and the Ukrainian war of independence.
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Gilmour had performed live with BoomBox in 2015, at a London benefit gig for the Belarus Free Theatre – they played a brief, endearingly raw set of Pink Floyd songs and Gilmour solo tracks – but events had moved on dramatically since then: at the end of Feburary, Khlyvnyuk had abandoned BoomBox’s US tour in order to fight against the Russian invasion. In 1993, he married Priscilla Phillips.A couple of weeks ago, Pink Floyd’s guitarist and singer David Gilmour was asked if he’d seen the Instagram feed of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, frontman of Ukrainian rock band BoomBox.He wed Lady Carolyne Christie a year later, bearing two children, son Harry, now 39, and a daughter India, now 37, before they divorced in 1992.As for his first three marriages, in 1969, Roger married his childhood sweetheart Judy Trim but they divorced in 1975.During proceedings, his estranged wife demanded her $35,000 Rolex back in court.Roger's last wife was Laurie Durning, 52, whom he filed for divorce in 2015.He said they met at one of his gigs and said she 'worked in transportation' and 'drove the car' that took him to and from his hotel.Roger revealed in a 2018 interview that he had been with Kamilah for 'a few years'.
The couple tied the knot at the musician's Bridgehampton estate in New York which he purchased in 2010 for for $16.2 million.The rocker, 78, shared photos from the ceremony on social media on Thursday.'Finally a keeper': Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, 78, marries for FIFTH time as he declares 'I'm so happy' and shares photos from wedding to his former chauffeur Kamilah Chavis, 43, at his $16.2 million Bridgehampton, NY, estate
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