“They want Mummy and Daddy not to be divorced anymore”: David Gilmour and wife Polly Samson reflect on why fans keep clamouring for him to reunite Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd remain heavily in the rotation of prog lovers and music fans the world over, but they shouldn’t expect a reunion of any form any time soon.
The relationship between David Gilmour and Roger Waters remains acrimonious, to say the least; in October last year, Gilmour was on record saying he would “absolutely not” perform with Waters ever again, adding: “I tend to steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators.”
Roger Waters has been accused of supporting President Vladimir Putin during Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and even addressed the United Nations Security Council via video link in 2023 upon invitation from the Russian government.
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Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson has also been vocal in her opposition to Roger Waters, writing in a 2023 tweet: “Roger Waters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” going on to call him a “Putin apologist” among numerous other insults.
Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.
— pollysamson (@PollySamson) February 6, 2023
Samson became somewhat professionally entangled with Pink Floyd following Roger Waters’ bitter departure in 1985, contributing many of the lyrics to the band’s 1994 album The Division Bell.
She refused to pursue writing credits, partly due to “an internalised misogyny”, as she explains in a new interview alongside her husband with The Telegraph, and hinting that it was some part due to Roger Waters fans blaming her for his Pink Floyd departure.
“The fans of Pink Floyd at that point were very much a divided community,” she explains. “I mean, they want mummy and daddy not to be divorced anymore,” she says, referring to Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
“I was like some sort of mistress who’d gone along and taken daddy away from mummy.”
“[Fans] still fight like cats and dogs,” says Gilmour, adding that Pink Floyd in the mid ‘90s was “very much still a very misogynistic boys’ club”.
“It was difficult for Polly,” he says. “I don’t think I did my best. I don’t think I’ve done enough to protect her in those ways really but we got through it.”
In other news, David Gilmour recently reflected on how he felt Pink Floyd were never prog rock, as they are often labelled. “To me, progressive rock is very serious players who can really do their stuff,” he said.
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