A concert venue in Kraków, Poland has canceled two upcoming shows by onetime Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters following recent comments the singer-songwriter made about the ongoing war in Ukraine. …
with an “open letter” to Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Titled “Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?” in a reference to Pink Floyd’s classic song “Wish You Were Here,” it urges that the West stop supplying arms to Ukraine or else risk a long battle, saying “Throwing fuel, in the form of armaments, into a fire fight, has never worked to shorten a war in the past, and it won’t work now.
He added later: “If I’m wrong, please help me to understand how? If I’m not wrong, please help me in my honest endeavors to persuade our leaders to stop the slaughter, the slaughter which serves only the interests of the ruling classes and extreme nationalists both here in the West, and in your beautiful country, at the expense of the rest of us ordinary people both here in the West, and in the Ukraine, and in fact ordinary people everywhere all over the world.
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Pink Floyd founder cancels Poland concerts after war remarksWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has canceled concerts planned in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia's war against Ukraine, Polish media reported Saturday. An official with the Tauron Arena in Krakow, where Waters was scheduled to perform two concerts in April, said they would no longer take place.
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Pink Floyd Founder Cancels Poland Gigs After Blaming Ukrainian ‘Nationalists’ for WarHe penned a letter to the Ukrainian first lady, accusing “extreme nationalists” of setting “your country on the path to this disastrous war.”
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Pink Floyd founder cancels Poland concerts after war remarksRoger Waters was scheduled to perform two concerts in April, but said they would no longer take place.
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Pink Floyd founder cancels Poland concerts after war remarksPink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has canceled concerts planned in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia's war against Ukraine, Polish media reported Saturday. An official with the Tauron Arena in Krakow, where Waters was scheduled to perform two concerts in April, said they would no longer take place. “Roger Waters’ manager decided to withdraw ... without giving any reason,' Lukasz Pytko from Tauron Arena Krakow said Saturday in comments carried by Polish media outlets.
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