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David Gilmour Says He’ll Never Work With Roger Waters Again, Avoids People Who ‘Support Genocidal and Autocratic Dictators’

David Gilmour said he will never work with former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters again, saying he avoids people who 'actively support' dictators.

In a year when famously battling brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher defied the odds and announced they were burying the hatchet and reuniting after a decade-and-a-half of incessant public sniping, Pink Floyd ‘s David Gilmour made it crystal clear that he is never, ever getting back together with the band’s former bassist/singer Roger Waters. During the show, Waters wore a costume resembling the Nazi SS soldier uniform — a long black coat with a red armband — while pointing a fake rifle at the crowd, with the singer saying later that the “depiction of an unhinged fascist demagogue” has been featured in his past live performances since the release of the 1980 Pink Floyd film The Wall. A month later, the Biden administration’s State Department weighed in on what it called Waters’ “ long track record of using antisemitic tropes ” and the German show it said “contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust.”

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