“One day there are things I will talk about”: David Gilmour hints that he’ll reveal the truth about his relationship with Roger Waters
David Gilmour has touched on his relationship with Roger Waters in an interview with Mojo – and hinted he might reveal more in the future.
The Pink Floyd pair have enjoyed a fractious relationship over the years, but neither makes a habit of publicly speaking about the other. When asked about it, Gilmour says, “This constant hunt for information about something which, to me, is totally irrelevant, is wearisome,” and adds, “Do you know what decade of my life I was in when Roger left our pop group? My 30s. I am now 78. Where’s the relevance?”
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However, he hints that he might delve further into his relationship with Waters at some point, saying, “One day there are things I will talk about, but this isn’t that day.”
Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, only briefly returning as a guest in 2005. After his departure, Gilmour continued to use the Pink Floyd name, something that led to legal battles as Waters invoked the ‘Leaving Member’ clause in his contract and as a result didn’t believe that Pink Floyd could continue with the name in his absence.
In 1987, Waters came to an agreement and resigned from the band, explaining (via Far Out), “If I hadn’t, the financial repercussions would have wiped me out completely.” And he told the BBC in 2013 that he was “wrong” to try to dissolve Pink Floyd, but added, “Who cares? It’s one of the few times that the legal profession has taught me something.”
Pink Floyd hadn’t released any new material since their 2014 album The Endless River, but Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason revived the band name for a protest song against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hey, Hey, Rise Up!, alongside Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk, Waters called it “content-less … flag waving”.
In response, Polly Samson, Gilmour’s wife, wrote on X (formerly Twitter), that Waters was “antisemitic to his rotten core,” and a “Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.”
Gilmour, who said last month that talking about Waters is ‘boring’, then added in a follow-up post, “Every word demonstrably true.”
In June 2024, Waters was interviewed by Piers Morgan on Talk TV, among other things denying that he was antisemitic, and was asked to elaborate on his thoughts about the tweet said. He replied, “No comment, it’s private.”
When Mojo asks Gilmour about Waters’ interview with Morgan, he answers, “No. But that tweet was boiling up. It had to come out – and I have no regrets about it. No regrets whatsoever.”
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