Posted on 06/12/2005 1:09:02 PM PDT by HAL9000
LONDON - Organizers of the London Live 8 concert said Sunday that the original members of the British rock band Pink Floyd would perform at the July event for the first time in more than two decades.Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, bass player Roger Waters and keyboard player Richard Wright have not performed on stage together since 1981.
The group, which achieved major success with their 1973 album "Dark Side Of The Moon," will join musical acts including Elton John, Madonna, Paul McCartney and Coldplay at the anti-poverty concert in Hyde Park on July 2.
"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G-8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," Gilmour said.
"It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations."
Waters, the group's founder, split with the rest of the band after a falling-out in the 1980s.
"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it's going to be worthwhile," Gilmour said.
Crazy as that may be, it's still far more than all of the other nations on earth combined. So shine on you crazy diamond!
Shut your LSD Hole.
America has & continues to do more for the world THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
PERIOD!
Excuse me????
Ya know .. it's comments like that .. that make me say .. to hell with them .. stop ALL funds and we'll just see how "paltry" our percentage is
Why don't these "artists" simply open their checkbook, donate, and then shut the f- up? I forgot... they need to stroke their ego. It is all about them, not the people who are receiving the charity.
To such statemnts
I have become
comfortably numb.
I am getting so sick and tired of people trashing this country, but, then wants to bleed us dry of our money. How about calling on the heads of states of those countries who are poor to step down and replace them with people who want to do more for THEIR own people?? You have to cut the snake off at it's head to end poverty. That starts with whom is leading the country.
ROFL!
Didn't that Norwegian jackass say the same thing about tsunami relief? Didn't even the UN tell him to STFU?
When these aging, overpaid has-beens and never-weres pull out their own checkbooks, instead of just going sing a few songs, then they can talk. In the meantime, they should follow the lead of that UN jerk and just crawl back under their rocks.
I can see Robert Mugabe wringing his hands with anticipation
waiting for his check to arrive
crap on a crutch . . . This is a sign that the end is near. All they need is to bring back Syd for one or two songs. I'll be making a b-line to the confessional.
Have a cigar!
EXACTLY!
Tell you what.
*YOU* donate all the $$ you have made from Pink Floyd to the poor and then perhaps I'll listen.
What's that I hear?
< crickets>
Geez I hope they don't make a movie out of this. The rockumentary "Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii" is the worst movie I've ever seen. And I'm a fan of their music.
There was one hilarious moment in the film-- though it was unintentional. One of them (Waters, I think), looking like someone coming down from a 10 day acid trip, with stringy, greasy hair, bloodshot eyes and sounding like a complete stoner, was being interviewed and said with a straight face he didn't understand why people associated Pink Floyd with drugs.
Money, it's a crime.
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.
Great news for the music world.
But I wish they would keep their politics to themselves.
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