Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour asserted that there would be “no possible way” he would ever work with controversial frontman Roger Waters during an interview with The Telegraph.
“Nothing. There is no possible way that I would do that,” Gilmour told the Telegraph when questioned about what it would take to see the pair perform together again.
Gilmour has previously spoken out against his former bandmate, claiming he “supported genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin.” Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, also accused Waters of being “antisemitic to his rotten core” in 2023.
Samson told the Telegraph she made the comments so nobody would ever confuse her with the wife of Waters.
“The reason I did it was because Pink Floyd is quite a faceless band. Everywhere I went, there was a chance that people thought I was married to the one who said things like that. And it wasn’t a great feeling,” she said. “If they knew you’re married to someone from Pink Floyd, half the time people were giving me quite strange looks, and it was really uncomfortable, and I just wanted to draw a line and make it clear that these were not views held by me or the person I was married to.”
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The pair are not the first celebrities to accuse Waters of being antisemitic, as Sharon Osbourne levied similar accusations against him.
“I’m Jewish…I know him… I know his reputation that precedes him in our industry…He laughs, he’s always telling jokes about Jews, always making comments about money, the cliché, you know, old-time opinion," she told Talk TV in 2023.
Waters' alleged antisemitism was also subject to a documentary produced by Campaign Against Antisemitism.