Pink Floyd-profil kritisk till Ukraina: ”Icke önskvärd”
Polska politiker vill förklara Roger Waters ”icke önskvärd” efter Pink Floyd-grundarens uttalanden om kriget i Ukraina. Det rapporterar TT.
I april nästa år ska Waters spela två konserter i Krakow, men stadens lokala politiker ska inom de närmaste dagarna genomföra en omröstning om han verkligen ska få uppträda.
Nyligen skrev Waters ett öppet brev till den ukrainska presidentens fru Olena Zelenska där han anklagade ”extremnationalister” i Ukraina för att ha ”lett in ert land på vägen till detta katastrofala krig”. Han kritiserade även länderna i väst för att exportera vapen till Ukrainas försvar.
Tidigare har han kritiserat Nato för att ha provocerat fram invasionen genom att ta in Rysslands grannländer som medlemmar.
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Roger Waters
Wikipedia (en)
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1983.
Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987.
Waters's solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution.
In 1990, Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an attendance of 450,000. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Later that year, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event, the group's only appearance with Waters since 1981. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999; he performed The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tour of 2006–2008, and the Wall Live tour of 2010–2013 was the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist at the time.
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