The rivalry between the two founding members of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and Roger Waters, has intensified recently after Waters accused Gilmour of being “creatively bankrupt” and lacking any genuine musical “ideas” when it came to writing their renowned albums. In the same interview, Waters said that “The Dark Side of the Moon,” an album to which Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright had made substantial contributions, was being completely re-recorded. With the name “Pink Floyd,” Gilmour composed music for the war-torn nation after the Russian invasion as a fervent supporter of Ukraine’s fighting effort. The former Pink Floyd bassist has a history of antisemitism and currently performs some of the band’s oeuvre under his own name. Waters disparaged Gilmour and Wright as artists during the conversation.
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