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Pink Floyd's "Hey Hey Rise Up" features vocals by Boombox singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk; it's the band's first new original music since 1994's "Division Bell."

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FILE - David Gilmour performs in the ancient roman amphitheater of the Pompeii archeological site, Italy, Thursday, July 7, 2016. Pink Floyd is releasing ...

We both hope to do something together in person in the future.” He said: “I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. “We want to express our support for Ukraine, and in that way show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become," Gilmour said.

Pink Floyd is releasing new music for the first time in 28 years, with proceeds going to humanitarian relief in Ukraine.

"We want to raise funds and morale. But if you can imagine, if those kind of things are going off, it could just as easily have been a piece over an inch across, which would have taken his head off.” "I hope it will receive wide support and publicity," Gilmour said in a statement on Pink Floyd's Instagram account. Khlyvnyuk’s a capella rendition of the song is featured in “Hey Hey Rise Up,” which takes its title from the last lines of the folk song. Gilmour has a personal connection to Ukraine. He has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law, and his grandchildren are half-Ukrainian. The grandmother of his daughter-in-law, who is Ukrainian, was in Kharkiv until three weeks ago, he told The Guardian. “He showed me this tiny quarter-inch piece of shrapnel that had embedded itself in his cheek,” Gilmour told The Guardian. “He’d kept it in a plastic bag.

Guitarist and singer David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, bassist Guy Pratt and composer Nitin Sawhney teamed up to create “Hey Hey Rise Up” to support the UN's ...

However, the song features Khlyvnyuk’s voice from the video that inspired Gilmour to begin with. He’d kept it in a plastic bag.” It’s a really difficult and frustrating thing to see this extraordinarily crazy, unjust attack by a major power on an independent, peaceful, democratic nation.

All proceeds from "Hey Hey Rise Up" will go toward Ukrainian humanitarian relief efforts.

"I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing," Gilmour said. He posted the Instagram video from which his vocals were taken three days later. In it, the band is seen performing, intercut with footage of anti-war protests and destruction in Ukraine.

The band's first new material in 28 years was inspired by David Gilmour's "anger" over the war.

It helps to create a discontent in that country which will hopefully, at some point, create some sort of change of regime." Work on the song began a couple of weeks ago, when Gilmour was shown Khlyvnyuk's Instagram feed. "So he's right there on the front line. Gilmour said he found the "powerlessness of the West" in the face of Russian aggression "infuriating" but said he supported the ongoing sanctions against the country. But it is also intended as a morale booster for the people of Ukraine, and a call "for peace". Gilmour says the song is a show of "anger at a superpower invading a peaceful nation".

“Hey Hey Rise Up” features Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, with vocals from Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the band BoomBox. Roger Waters ...

We both hope to do something together in person in the future.” He said: “I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. LONDON (AP) — Pink Floyd is releasing its first new music in almost three decades to raise money for the people of Ukraine, the band announced Thursday.

Even after BoomBox frontman Andriy Khlyvnyuk ditched his United States tour and went back to his home country of Ukraine to fight the invading Russian army, ...

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. “I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing,” Gilmour said. The last independent newsletter in Russia suspended its operations. The result is “Hey Hey Rise Up.” It is the first new original piece of music the band has recorded since the 1994 album “The Division Bell,” and all of its proceeds will go toward humanitarian aid for Ukrainians. The guitarist and vocalist said that he’s known about BoomBox since 2015, when he played with the band in London. Khlyvnyuk was not there because of issues with his visa, Gilmour said, so he and the rest of BoomBox played Pink Floyd’s classic “Wish You Were Here” for Khlyvnyuk. “We want to express our support for Ukraine and, in that way, show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become,” Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour said in a statement Thursday.

Hey Hey Rise Up features Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, with Andriy Khlyvnyuk on vocals.

We both hope to do something together in person in the future.” Bass player Roger Waters, who left Pink Floyd in the 1980s, is not involved. Released on Friday, the song Hey Hey Rise Up features Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, with Andriy Khlyvnyuk, of the band BoomBox, in vocals.

Today (April 8th) Pink Floyd have released the new track "Hey Hey Rise Up" in support of the people of Ukraine, The track marks the band's first new music since 1994's The Division Bell. The song features Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason ...

While writing the music for the track, David managed to speak with Andriy from his hospital bed in Kyiv where he was recovering from a mortar shrapnel injury. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music." Pussy Riot and the Ukrainian band, Boombox, were also on the bill.

Pink Floyd's "Hey Hey Rise Up" features vocals by Boombox singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk; it's the band's first new original music since 1994's "Division Bell."

"It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music." "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," the statement added. "A little motivation from the leader of the group 'Boombox' Andriy Khlyvnyuk," he wrote.

With “Hey Hey Rise Up,” famed psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd has reunited to release its first song in almost three decades in support of a Ukrainian ...

“I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line, and he gave me his blessing. Khlyvnyuk ended a U.S. tour early to return to Ukraine to join a territorial defense unit. Khlyvnyuk’s emotional clip plays throughout the song’s music video, which also shares his backstory, as Pink Floyd performs. Gilmour said that the band wanted to show its support for Ukraine and “show that most of the world thinks that it is totally wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic country that Ukraine has become.” Guy Pratt plays bass and Nitin Sawhney plays keyboards on the track. With “Hey Hey Rise Up,” famed psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd has reunited to release its first song in almost three decades in support of a Ukrainian singer’s “message of resistance.”

'The Wall' by Pink Floyd is a bleak album. Masterminded by Roger Waters, the primal demos paint a vivid picture of his feelings at the time. Listen here.

There’s a real frost to the songs, reflecting the bleak period the band and wider society were enduring. On the raw demos that Waters showed Parker, you can hear his “black heart” beating loud and clear, and the themes of the album are brought into a chilling focus. These were raw and angry – Roger’s primal scream, which to this day remains at the heart of the piece.” It set the wheels in motion for the next chapter of their career, and in many ways, would spell the end of Pink Floyd. In 1983, Waters left the group permanently, in one of the most bitter departures in music history. It tells the tale of a burnt-out rock star who turns his back on organised society and civilisation to become a recluse. This theme of isolation is explored through the imposing structure of the titular wall, making the record one of the most complex that a rock band has ever produced.

A near-capacity crowd filled Mizner Park Amphitheater to see musicians from around the world interpret Floyd's catalog from 1971 to 1983.

Or the saxophonist, materializing in the center aisle of the theater during “Money,” and wailing away with an unbridled virtuosity. That came from the musicians themselves, who performed the songs of Waters, Gilmour and company with reverence and virtuosity. At its best, “The Wall and Beyond,” a tribute concert promoted by Seaside Music Management, brought me close.

Pink Floyd has revealed its video for Hey Hey Rise Up in aid of Ukraine, the band's first new music in nearly three decades.

“I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. Gilmour explains, “In 2015, I played a show at Koko in London in support of the Belarus Free Theatre, whose members have been imprisoned. The track uses Andriy’s vocals taken from his Instagram post of him in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square singing The Red Viburnum In The Meadow, a rousing Ukrainian protest song written during the first world war.