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Pink Floyd lyricist and guitarist's wife: Polly Samson calls Roger Waters "Putin apologists" and "anti

2023-02-07T13:07:52.014Z


Sharp statements in the noise surrounding Pink Floyd: Polly Samson, author and wife of David Gilmour, heavily criticizes Roger Waters. He replies with a tweet. What will become of his concerts in Germany?


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Polly Samson 2005 between David Gilmour (l.) and Roger Waters: "Every word demonstrably true"

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The »Welt am Sonntag« praised the latest novel by the English author Polly Samson for its »bizarrely beautiful pictures«.

But in a tweet, the author has now struck a much harsher tone.

Samson turns to former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters and writes: "Unfortunately you are anti-Semitic to your rotten core".

In addition, Waters was "a Putin apologist" and "a lying, stealing, hypocritical, tax-evading, lip-smacking, misogynist, envy-eating megalomaniac."

She has "enough of your nonsense," concludes the 60-year-old.

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Gilmour and Samson couple

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This outburst of anger would certainly have caused fewer waves in Pink Floyd fan circles if Polly Samson hadn't been married to David Gilmour, the band's guitarist, since 1994.

She has also written lyrics for the Pink Floyd albums The Division Bell and The Endless River, as well as various Gilmour solo projects.

Her husband apparently shares Samson's views on Roger Waters.

David Gilmour retweeted the sweepstakes with the approving comment "every word provably true."

The former bandmates have long since fallen out.

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"Principal aggressor" USA and "cautious" ruling Putin

The current trigger for Polly Samson's anger at Roger Waters seems to be an interview that appeared in the "Berliner Zeitung" at the weekend.

Waters published an English-translated version of the conversation on his website. 

In the newspaper interview, Waters wonders whether Vladimir Putin is “a bigger gangster” “than Joe Biden and everyone who has determined American politics since World War II?” He is not so sure, after all, Putin has neither Vietnam nor Iraq mugged.

According to Waters, the Russian president is governing cautiously “according to independent sources”.

When asked that it always sounds like he's defending Putin, the musician replies: »Compared to Biden, I do too.

The US and NATO provocations before February 2022 were extreme and very damaging to the interests of all ordinary people in Europe.« In Ukraine, Waters sees »a proxy war«, calls the USA »the main aggressor« and speaks of »brainwashing« .

Waters also once again expressed his support for the BDS movement against Israel.

He can't lose a friend because of his political views, says the 79-year-old: "If a friend said: Roger, I saw that you flew an inflatable pig with a Star of David during your Wall concerts, then I'll explain it to him context and that nothing anti-Semitic was intended or expressed.«

Application for termination of contract in Frankfurt

Because of allegations of anti-Semitism, there had been calls in several German cities where Roger Waters planned to perform on his "This Is Not A Drill" tour in May to prevent the concerts.

The musician has been using his concerts for a long time "to spread bad anti-Semitic hate speech", he has "got lost in hatred and conspiracy theories", wrote the German-Israeli Society in Berlin and Brandenburg to the organizer and hall sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin Berlin.

The arena wants to fulfill its contractual obligations.

In Frankfurt am Main, the planned Waters concert in the Festhalle has become a topic in the mayoral election campaign.

The Green Party candidate, Manuela Rottmann, asked Messe Frankfurt, as the operator of the hall, to terminate the contract with Waters.

After a conversation with the Jewish community, Mike Josef, head of the planning department, the SPD candidate, also supported the demand.

There was broad support in the culture committee.

Next Friday, the magistrate should decide on a corresponding application and then bring it to the supervisory board of the trade fair in order to dissolve the contract with the organizer, Josef announced according to the "Frankfurter Rundschau".

The City of Frankfurt holds 60 percent and the State of Hesse 40 percent.

In September, two performances by Roger Waters scheduled for April in Kraków's Tauron Arena were canceled - apparently in connection with Waters' comments on the Ukraine war.

Waters' side has now responded to Polly Samson's tweet.

A statement was released on his Twitter account: "Roger Waters is aware of the inflammatory and wildly erroneous comments made about him by Polly Samson on Twitter," it read.

He denies them completely.

Waters is currently being consulted on his position, the statement concludes - and suggests that the dispute is far from over.

feb/dpa

Source: spiegel

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