Pink Floyd, David Gilmour Strips Music From Streamers in Russia

Pink Floyd are eradicating all music from 1987 to the current from streaming companies in Russia and Belarus “to face with the world in strongly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” in accordance with the band’s post on Twitter. Equally, David Gilmour, who led the band throughout these years, is stripping his solo recordings from companies in these international locations as properly.

Earlier this month, Gilmour used his social media to point out assist for the war-torn nation. “Russian troopers, cease killing your brothers,” he wrote. “There will likely be no winners on this conflict. My daughter-in-law is Ukrainian and my granddaughters need to go to and know their lovely nation. Cease this earlier than it’s all destroyed. Putin should go.” He included a video of “In Any Tongue,” an antiwar music he recorded for his 2015 album, Rattle That Lock.

The recordings that will likely be eliminated embody A Momentary Lapse of Motive, their first with out founding member Roger Waters, and its 1994 follow-up The Division Bell. In 2014, the band additionally launched The Limitless River utilizing music recorded principally in 1993. The band has additionally launched three reside albums from this period and a field set, The Later Years. The remainder of the group’s discography, together with Darkish Facet of the Moon and The Wall, will proceed to be obtainable.

To face with the world in strongly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the works of Pink Floyd, from 1987 onwards, and all of David Gilmour’s solo recordings are being faraway from all digital music suppliers in Russia and Belarus from immediately. pic.twitter.com/lTV7T3y29u

— Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) March 11, 2022

Earlier this week, Waters additionally condemned the conflict in an open letter to a Ukrainian fan. “I’m disgusted by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s invasion of Ukraine,” he wrote Wednesday. “It’s a prison mistake in my view, the act of a gangster. There have to be a right away ceasefire. I remorse that Western governments are fueling the hearth that may destroy your lovely nation by pouring arms into Ukraine as a substitute of participating within the diplomacy that will likely be essential to cease the slaughter.”