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Roger Waters dropped by BMG over Israel comments

Germany-based music rights company ends publishing agreement with Pink Floyd co-founder over divisive rhetoric

The music rights company BMG is parting ways with the Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters over comments he made about Israel, Ukraine and the United States, Variety on Monday. In April 2023, he won a legal battle allowing him to play in Frankfurt, after magistrates of the German city had instructed the venue to cancel a concert and accused Waters of being “one of the most widely known antisemites in the world”. At a concert in Birmingham, UK, last year, Waters launched into a 10-minute rant in which he decried his “brutal” treatment in Germany and said numerous media outlets had been trying to destroy him for his support of human rights in Palestine.

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