After a decade Pink Floyd is ahead to making their first new single music in support of Ukraine. The single is about a frontline soldier named Andriy Khlyvnyuk, who is also a member of the Ukrainian band ‘Boombox’. The new track named ‘Hey, Hey, Rise Up’ is out with the ambition of helping Ukrainians relief.
The track ‘Hey, Hey, Rise Up’ will be their first original music release after decades since their 1994 album ‘The Division Bell’. Pink Floyd band covered the song with David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Guy Pratt (bass), and Nitin Sawhney (keyboards) on March 30th, 2022, and the video was directed by Whitecross. Ukraine Humanitarian Relief will be given all the earnings from this song.
Gilmour hoping to get huge funds for humanitarian charity in support of needy folks of Ukraine and urging publicity and support in morality. They want to confirm that they are against attacking any democratic country that Ukraine has become. The world’s powerful leaders are not welcome to destroy any independent and peaceful democratic country by announcing war. This is totally frustrating and furious feeling that people are murdered unkindly. Singer’s family belongs to the Ukrainian family and he totally feels the dilemma.
In Belarus, Free Theatre Gilmour played with Khlyvnyuk’s band in 2015. Khlyvnyuk postponed an Us tour with Boombox this February for fighting for his homeland against the Russians. Khlyvnyuk is sampled singing in Sofiyaskaya Square in the capital Kyiv. Gilmour explains the powerful moment that he could not resist involved in the song. While standing beside the beautiful gold-domed church the singer sings in silence to present his pain for the city of silence with no traffic or gathering because of the war.
In support of Ukraine, Pink Floyd and David Gilmour removed all the music from Russia and Belarus streaming services and posted it on Twitter.
Gilmour indicates to the Russian soldiers to stop the war because there will be no winners in the end. He also shows the emotion that his daughter-in-law is from Ukraine and his granddaughters want to go for a visit to Ukraine. The beautiful county needs to be rescued before it is destroyed.
Khlyvnyuk spoke from the hospital as he was injured from the war he was serving as a fighter. Gilmour managed to play a little bit of the song over a phone call and he appreciated the dedication. Finally, Gilmour said
‘We both hope to do something together in person in the future ‘
