A reunited Pink Floyd launched a brand new tune Friday — its first since 1994 — to lift cash to assist the Ukrainian folks after Russia’s invasion.
Proceeds from “Hey Hey Rise Up” will go to Ukrainian humanitarian reduction efforts, Pink Floyd mentioned in an announcement.
The tune consists of Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason and options vocals from Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the band BoomBox.
The monitor makes use of vocals taken from an Instagram publish of Mr. Khlyvnyuk singing the Ukrainian patriotic tune “Purple Viburnum In The Meadow” in entrance of Kyiv’s St. Sophia Cathedral.
Pink Floyd known as “Purple Viburnum In The Meadow” a “rousing Ukrainian protest tune” written throughout the first world battle. The title of the Pink Floyd tune is borrowed from the final line of the patriotic tune, which interprets to “Hey Hey Stand up and rejoice,” the band defined within the assertion.
Mr. Gilmour, who joined BoomBox on stage in London in 2015, mentioned within the assertion that the Instagram video was “a robust second that made me wish to put it to music.”
Mr. Khlyvnyuk had ended his U.S. tour and returned to Ukraine.
Mr. Gilmour mentioned he known as Mr. Khlyvnyuk whereas writing the tune and spoke to the Ukrainian singer, who was within the hospital recovering from a mortar shrapnel harm.
“I hope it is going to obtain large assist and publicity. We wish to elevate funds for humanitarian charities and lift morale,” Mr. Gilmour mentioned within the assertion. “We wish to specific our assist for Ukraine and, in that approach, present that a lot of the world thinks that it’s completely fallacious for a superpower to invade the impartial democratic nation that Ukraine has grow to be.”
