Pink Floyd

LONDON (Reuters) - British rock band Pink Floyd will release a new song on Friday to raise money for humanitarian relief in Ukraine, featuring the voc...

“I played him a little bit of the song down the phone line and he gave me his blessing. “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,” Gilmour said on Pink Floyd’s website. Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour said he learned that Khlyvnyuk – with whom he had previously performed – left a U.S. tour with Boombox and returned to Ukraine to join the Territorial Defence Forces.

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."

You may click on “Your Choices” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites. If you click “Agree and Continue” below, you acknowledge that your cookie choices in those tools will be respected and that you otherwise agree to the use of cookies on NPR’s sites. NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Una canción de protesta contra la guerra de Ucrania. Ese ha sido el motivo por el cual la banda Pink Floyd se reencontró para grabar su primer material ...

Ayudan a crear un descontento en ese país que, con suerte, en algún momento generará algún tipo de cambio de régimen". "Le puse un poco de la canción en la línea telefónica y me dio su bendición". Gilmour dice que la canción es una expresión de "ira contra una superpotencia que invade una nación pacífica".

La canción “Hey Hey Rise Up” incluye a los miembros de Pink Floyd David Gilmour y Nick Mason, con la voz del cantante ucraniano Andriy Khlyvnyuk de la banda ...

“Le toqué un poco de la canción por teléfono y él me dio su bendición”, dijo. Pink Floyd lanza música nueva por primera vez en casi tres décadas para ayudar a recaudar fondos para el pueblo de Ucrania. Pink Floyd lanza música nueva por primera vez en casi tres décadas para ayudar a recaudar fondos para el pueblo de Ucrania