Pink Floyd is getting the band back together to record their first song in nearly three decades, releasing a tune aimed at raising money for aid to Ukraine.
“Hey Hey Rise Up” will be released Friday, the band announced in a Thursday Twitter post.
You won’t recognize it as Pink Floyd since the singer is Andriy Khlynyuk, a Ukraine-born singer for the band BoomBox, who halted his United States concert tour and returned home “to defend his country.”
Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour explained “It’s really a difficult and frustrating thing to see this extraordinarily crazy, unjust attack by a major power on an independent, peaceful, democratic nation.”
“The frustration of seeing that and thinking ‘what the f— can I do?’ is sort of unbearable,” Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren, said.