Pink Floyd release new song Hey Hey Rise Up in support of Ukraine


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It’s the first original music from Pink Floyd since 1994.

Pink Floyd have shared a new song entitled Hey Hey Rise Up in support of the people of Ukraine.

Recorded just last week, the track sees David Gilmour and Nick Mason – together with long-time Floyd bass player Guy Pratt, and with Nitin Sawhney on keyboards – teaming up with Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox.

“In 2015, I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre, whose members have been imprisoned,” Gilmour explains.

“Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian band, Boombox, were also on the bill. They were supposed to do their own set, but their singer Andriy had visa problems, so the rest of the band backed me for my set – we played Wish You Were Here for Andriy that night.”

“Recently I read that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense. Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war.”

“It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music.”


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