Apparently some people have been getting a bit confused about Roger Waters‘ participation in Pink Floyd. And apparently Roger Waters has been a bit irked by this.
Headed by Dave Gilmour and Nick Mason, Pink Floyd are releasing a new album entitled ‘The Endless River‘ soon, described as an ’emotional tribute’ to their late keyboard player Richard Wright, who passed away in 2008 – as tracks that make up the album were recorded around the same time as 1994’s ‘The Division Bell‘, Wright’s contributions survive two decades on.
Of more pressing concern to the ever-jovial Waters though is the fact that by then he was long gone from the band, and therefore was nowhere near those sessions. Anyone a bit unclear on all this can make their way to Facebook where Waters has kindly put the record straight once and for all.
“Some people have been asking Laurie, my wife, about a new album I have coming out in November,” he writes. “Errhh? I don’t have an album coming out, they are probably confused. David Gilmour and Nick Mason have an album coming out. It’s called ‘Endless River’. David and Nick constitute the group Pink Floyd.”
“I on the other hand, am not part of Pink Floyd. I left Pink Floyd in 1985, that’s 29 years ago. I had nothing to do with either of the Pink Floyd studio albums, ‘Momentary Lapse Of Reason’ and ‘The Division Bell’, nor the Pink Floyd tours of 1987 and 1994, and I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip.”