Pink Floyd hasn’t been active for a while, and fans have been wondering if the band will ever return in some form, hopefully with both David Gilmour and Roger Waters attached. Gilmour and his wife, Polly Samson still own the Pink Floyd name and the publishing rights. They revealed to The Telegraph that they have “absolutely no intention” of reviving the band.
David Gilmour’s wife talks about Pink Floyd
Gilmour and Waters don’t get along, and their bad blood intensified in 2023 as Samson called out Waters on X for his political views and vile behavior. In the interview, Samson stated that Waters’ actions and opinions affected Pink Floyd as a name, and consequently Gilmour and her:
“The reason I did it was because Pink Floyd are quite a faceless band. Everywhere I went, there’s a chance that people thought I was married to the one who said things like that. And it wasn’t a great feeling.”
When asked if this meant that most people don’t understand the difference between Gilmour and Waters, she said, “I mean, we do. But lots and lots of people of my age don’t know…” Gilmour added, “Don’t know the difference.”
Samson continued:
“If they knew you’re married to someone from Pink Floyd, half the time people were giving me quite strange looks and it was really uncomfortable and I just wanted to draw a line and make it clear that these were not views held by me or the person I was married to.”
Samson added that her opinion on Waters hasn’t changed. Gilmour solidified their position, saying, “Exactly the same. Every word demonstrably true.” The interviewer asked Gilmour if he’d ever consider reuniting with Waters. Would something need to happen to make him feel comfortable with the idea? “Nothing,” Gilmour stated. “There is no possible way that I would do that.”
David Gilmour and Polly Samson wrote lyrics for the band’s later songs. In the past as well, they didn’t pull any punches about Roger Waters, whose stances on Israel, Ukraine and Russia alarmed many of the band’s followers in recent years.
Previously on social media, Samson called Waters “rotten to your antisemitic core” and “a Putin apologist,” among other things — and Gilmour emphatically cosigned his spouse’s statement, writing: “Every word demonstrably true.”
Waters responded to Samson’s tweet with his own Twitter message, written in the third person, which some followers took as a hint that he is considering legal action. “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely,” the message read. “He is currently taking advice as to his position.”
Every word demonstrably true https://t.co/KWk4I3bMTN
— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) February 6, 2023
— Roger Waters ✊ (@rogerwaters) February 6, 2023
Roger Waters had also continued his war of words with David Gilmour and his wife during a past show at London’s O2 Arena. In a video from the U.K.’s Campaign Against Antisemitism, Waters addressed Sampson’s comments where she called him antisemitic and a Vladimir Putin apologist.
“February the 4th, there’s a lady who lives, I think, somewhere in London tweeting appalling things about me,” begins Waters. ” … She talked about me being an antisemite to my rotten core, and I was really upset. It may have been contributory to the whole enthusiasm the Israeli lobby has developed since that time to have me wiped off the face of the Earth.”
Waters has made many comments recently related to forces that tried to get a May 28 show in Germany of his canceled. A court eventually ruled he was allowed to perform said show.
He concluded, ” … All I have to say about Polly Sampson is imagine waking up to that every morning. Come on! You can do better than that.”
Now @RogerWaters responds to former Pink Floyd lyricist @PollySamson’s charge that he is “antisemitic to [his] rotten core” in a tweet from February. He tells his laughing fans: “All I have to say about Polly Samson is: imagine waking up to that every morning.”
This is after… pic.twitter.com/sipuWgZD3s
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 7, 2023
