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Pink Floyd reunites to stand with the Women of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters stand united in support of the Women of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and deplore their illegal arrest and detention in international waters by the Israeli Defense Force.

Pink Floyd’s The Wall: The Original Live Show & Behind-the-Scenes Footage of the 1980 Tour and 1982 Film | Open Culture
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Opening with maximum fanfare and pomp, and closing with the sound of dive bombers, “In the Flesh?,” the first track on Pink Floyd’s magnum opus The Wall announces that the two-disc concept album will be big, bombastic, and important. All that it is, but it’s also somber, groovy, even sometimes delicate, harnessing the band’s full range of strengths—David Gilmour’s minimalist funk rhythms and soaring, complex blues leads, Nick Mason’s timpani-like drum fills and thumping disco beats, and Richard Wright’s moody keyboard soundscapes. Under it all, the propulsive throb of Roger Waters’ bass—and presiding over it his jaded, nostalgic vision of personal and social alienation.

Expertly blending personal narrative with trenchant, if at times not particularly subtle, social critique, Waters’ rock opera—and it is, primarily, his—debuted just over 35 years ago on November 30, 1979. The project grew out of a collection of demos Waters wrote and recorded on his own. He presented the almost-fully formed album (minus the few collaborations with Gilmour like “Comfortably Numb”) to the band and producer Bob Ezrin, who described it as “Roger’s own project and not a group effort.” That may be so in its composition, but the final recording is a glorious group effort indeed, showcasing each member’s particular musical personality, as well as those of a host of guest musicians. The legendary stage show drew together an even larger pool of talent, such as political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, whose animations were projected on a giant cardboard wall that slowly came down over the course of the concert......

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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason: Why Rolling Stones shouldn’t play in Israel - Salon.com
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With the recent news that the Rolling Stones will be playing their first-ever concert in Israel, and at what is a critical time in the global struggle for Palestinian freedom and equal rights, we, the two surviving founders of Pink Floyd, have united in support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), a growing, nonviolent global human rights movement initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 to end Israel’s occupation, racial discrimination and denial of basic Palestinian rights.

The BDS movement is modeled on the successful nonviolent movements that helped end Jim Crow in the American South and apartheid in South Africa. Indeed, key figures who led the South African freedom struggle, like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mandela’s close associate, Ahmed Kathrada, have come out in support of BDS for Palestinian rights. BDS offers us all a way to nonviolently pressure the Israeli government to fully realize that its injustices against the Palestinian people are legally and morally unacceptable and unsustainable.

The movement does not advocate a particular political framework — one state or two — and neither do we. Rather, we call for a resolution that upholds freedom, justice and equal rights for all, irrespective of identity, and does not cause additional suffering for either people.

So, to the bands that intend to play Israel in 2014, we urge you to reconsider. Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of South African apartheid; regardless of your intentions, crossing the picket line provides propaganda that the Israeli government will use in its attempts to whitewash the policies of its unjust and racist regime.

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