News about Roger Waters

Pink Floyd reportedly agreed to sell the rights to their substantial music catalogue as well as their name and likeness as a band to Sony Music for $400M this week. The Grammy-winning psychedelic group have sold over 250M records worldwide and four of their albums (The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and Atom Heart Mother) managed to top the US Billboard 200 chart.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: When Nicholas Johnston bought an idyllic Devon seaside village 'on a whim' for £11.5million, he prompted fury among locals by unveiling plans to develop it with a beach club, new homes and underground car park. Now, the Old Etonian is selling the Bantham Estate, I can disclose, and he hopes to make a staggering £18.5million profit. Johnston, 52, previously sold land on his Oxfordshire estate to the Soho House private members' club group and locals in South Devon feared he was trying to create a 'Soho House-on-Sea'.

Nick Mason, the drummer of Pink Floyd, has said there is no way band members David Gilmour and Roger Waters will ever be friends again, after their decades-long feud. Bassist Roger left the band in 1985 after unsuccessfully attempting to stop the remaining members from using the Pink Floyd name.  Despite the ongoing feud, Nick revealed how he belives AI could create music as if Roger had never left.

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has accused Israel of telling 'filthy and disgusting lies' about babies being burnt and women being raped by Hamas. The 80-year-old musician blustered that there was 'no evidence' that victims had been subjected to sex attacks during the terrorist organisation's rampage on October 7. That's despite a United Nations report earlier this year saying that 'sexualised torture' such as rapes and gang-rapes had been carried out by Hamas thugs amid the atrocities which saw 1,200 people killed and 250 taken hostage. Waters, who has previously said Hamas are 'morally bound to resist occupation' by Israel, told Piers Morgan Uncensored last night that the murder of civilians was a 'war crime '. However, in a fiery exchange the 80-year-old musician accused Israel of lying about the atrocities committed by the terrorists, before bizarrely whispering to himself in a bid to calm down on camera.

Oliver Clegg, a 21-year-old student protester from Manchester, appeared to carry out a disgusting act at Mr Sunak's £2million Grade-II listed Georgian manor house in Richmond, North Yorkshire, on Tuesday afternoon. But this is not the first time Clegg has been under fire for his activism - with the serial protestor gloating about his antics on social media. He was handed a 12-month conditional discharge and £250 in costs in February 2023 after he was arrested for blocking Birmingham's Esso Fuel Terminal in the April of the year before.

Israel 's Eurovision performance has been booed and faced with chants of 'Free Palestine ' in chaotic scenes. Eden Golan was nearly drowned out by the protest during the Eurovision Song Contest's Jury Show last night. Videos shared online show pro-Palestine activists disrupting almost her entire performance, with people in the crowd calling the atmosphere 'horrible'. The singer, who was born in Israel but grew up in Russia , has faced death threats ahead of her performances at the Malmo Arena in Sweden in the competition this week. The 20-year-old was performing her song 'Hurricane' when she was targeted by demonstrators who shouted and booed in protest against her nation. It comes after calls for Israel to be barred from competing in Eurovision following the war in Gaza, which has seen 33,000 Palestinians killed after Hamas launched a series of terrorist attacks.

As she joined the actors arriving at the British Vogue And Tiffany & Co., the 50-year-old posed up a storm. On Sunday evening, Annabel's celebrated the 2024 Fashion And Film Festival. In a dramatic black dress with a lace bodice, the actress, 50, turned heads. The high-legged corset converted into a long black train skirt.

BMG, a German music rights firm that signed Waters in 2016, has dissolved the 80-year-old rock star after a string of scandals, including a slew of inflammatory comments he made about Israel. In November, Waters told Variety that he had been 'fired' by the company after the company's relatively young CEO Thomas Coesfeld cancelled a planned debut of a Pink Floyd album, which had been postponed. According to the journal, sources have changed jobs. Officials from BMG told DailyMail.com that they were aware of the study but would not comment on it.

In the face of increasing antisemitism gripping the Ivy League campus, a student at the University of Pennsylvania has refused to remain silent. 'If the university isn't going to uphold the statute and its own rules, then the court system will prevail,' the Israeli-American student explained. Eyal Yakoby, a 21-year-old senior, has taken legal proceedings against Penn, alleging that the school committed "egregious" misconduct by selectively enforcing its code of conduct, including refraining from excluding Jewish students from being barred from discrimination and bullying.

The Association of Composers and Lyricists in Iceland demanded that Israel be barred from the competition due to the war in Gaza and the assassination of innocent civilians and children.' If Israel's artists are not banned, they said, Iceland will be ruled out of next year's Eurovision competition in Malmo, Sweden, which will take place in May.

Valiant Businessman Vahan Gureghian resigned from his position as a top businessman from 2009, nearly two weeks after the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7. He accused Magill of not doing enough to shield Jewish students, including refusing to condemn speakers at the Palestine Writes Literature Festival who have sluggishly dismissed Jews. Magill's tumultuous testimony before Congress this week, according to a 69-year-old who spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com, she must depart by Friday.

Bill Ackman was honoring a survey that suggested Liz Magill, the UPenn president, could resign on Friday. He tweeted, 'One down,' he said. Magill's testimony before Congress on Tuesday was condemned as a hate speech by Harvard and MIT, in which she and two other presidents - Harvard and MIT - refused to assert that calling for the genocide of Jews was racist speech. Their feeble response sparked widespread outrage, with one UPenn contributor threatening to withhold his $100 million donation to the university unless Magill stood down. The board of advisors of Wharton School of Business, which is part of UPenn, wrote to Magill, demanding that the board of advisors demand a change of leadership. Ackman referred to a CNN article on Thursday claiming that Scott Bok, the chair of Penn's Board of Trustees, was set to speak with Magill on Friday about possibly stepping down. Bok and Magill were meeting, according to a different source, although the board was not about to order Magill to stand down.

After her testimony on Tuesday, the board of advisors at Wharton School of Business, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania, has asked for the president to resign. Magill denied that calling for the genocide of Jews was hate speech and that she was immediately chastised for her equivocation. The board's letter, first published by The Daily Pennsylvanian, describes their dissatisfaction with Penn's "dangerous and harmful environment" that they believe the University's leadership has allowed to exist. The University's leadership,' according to the letter, 'does not share the Board's values.'

Liz Magill was one of three university presidents who refused to answer antisemitism on their campuses, and she told Congress that reprimanding students calling for a Jewish genocide was not important; instead, it's 'context' specific. By Thursday morning, a petition calling for Magill's resignation had grown to more than 10,300 signatures. Students, faculty members, and donors alike have expressed their displeasure with the president's words and actions, indicating their inability to tackle the rabid antisemitism on UPenn's campus.

Since posting his views about Gay on social media and calling for her resignation, the 57-year-old hedge funder has been heavily involved in the discussion. Gay and the presidents of UPenn and MIT were chastised for informing congress that calls for the genocide of Jews do not violate their codes of conduct, causing a lot of backlash. Ackman wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "I learned from someone with first-hand knowledge of the @Harvard president search that the committee would not accept a candidate who did not satisfy the DEI office's criteria.' The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, as a result of a much smaller universe of DEI-eligible presidential candidates. Shrinking the pool of applicants based on specific race, gender, and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right option for selecting the best leaders for our most prestigious universities.'

On Wednesday, Liz Magill, the president of UPenn, tried to minimize the fallout from a disappointing testimony before Congress on Tuesday, in which she refused to say that calls for genocide were hate speech. She said she was not 'focused' on the issue and said she wanted to'be sure' that calls for genocide were "evil, plain and straightforward," rather than with her university's policies and constitution. When asked if calls for the genocide of Jews counted as hate speech, Magill, as well as Harvard and MIT presidents, reacted a nodal protest, arguing that it was based on context. Harvard also attempted to minimize the damage caused by Claudine Gay's words.

Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and Harvard alumnus, called Harvard's president and two others' congressional testimony scandalous, and she suggested that she should resign. Elise Stefanik, House Republican Conference Chair, had pressed the three women for their attempts to fight antisemitism on their campuses. Both three presidents have admitted that they were unable to distance themselves from student groups who had defended the October 7 massacres. But they insisted that they wanted to protect an atmosphere of free expression - and they refused to respond 'yes or no' to questions about condemning particular rhetoric, despite Stefanik's indignation. 'I am asking, specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?'Stefanik asked. Gay told her that it depended on the time. Stefanik replied that it was "the easiest question" and that she answered with yes: "Yes."

Susan Sarandon is now leading pro-Palestine demonstrations, shouting "from the river to the sea" and lauding Roger Waters, who has long been accused of being anti-Semitic. Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, slammed the Oscar winner. In the aftermath of the October 7 attacks, Nomani dismissed Sarandon's assertion that Jews were'getting a glimpse of what it feels like to be a Muslim in America.' Nomani said she and her family thrived far more as Muslim-Americans than they would have if they had lived in Muslim majority countries.

After being accused of anti-Semitism after supporting Hamas in the war against Israel, Roger Waters has been denied hotel stays in Argentina and Uruguay.

Waters was supposed to remain in Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires ahead of his 'This is Not a Drill' tour,' but the reservations fell through, with hotels citing a lack of supplies, according to the Argentine newspaper Pagina 12. A Pagina 12 story on Wednesday said that hotels in Montevideo, Uruguay, refused to house him but did not give a reason. As a result, the singer said he was still in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he appeared just a few days ago.

Following a show in Berlin, the musician reignited controversy over the summer by wearing a 'Nazi-style' coat to his concerts, prompting the artist to be investigated by German police. The aging rocker said there was something "very fishy" about Israel's not knowing Hamas were invading despite the fact that they were not aware of the invasion. Glenn Greenwald of Rumble podcast System Updates said there was "something very fishy" about it. Waters - who said he was "an opponent of the entire Zionist project" went on to question Hamas' atrocities, said the terrorist group was "absolutely morally bound to refuse" in protest.

When promoting his book Spare in March, Duke of Sussex, 39, spoke with the Hungarian-Canadian doctor, 79, about'living with loss and the importance of personal transformation.' Harry made a string of bombshell statements about his ascension as a prince during their sit-down, which was streamed on the internet and cost $33 to watch. The discussion was remarkably questioned, particularly after it was revealed that Gabor had made a series of eyebrow-raising remarks in the past, like comparing Hamas to the Jewish heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis, defending Palestinian rocket fire at Israeli civilians, and naming Israel's government as terrorists. Now, the author and doctor have addressed the public's 'demeaning, dismissive, and distorted' reaction to Harry's conversation, while still acknowledging that it left him in a 'dark place' and needing professional assistance. He admitted that he had a "gut feeling" and that he shouldn't do the interview from the beginning, but that he did it "out of sheer opportunism."

CRAIG BROWN: Not so long ago, when you could distinguish a businessman from a rock star. There was a distinct divide. In my father's day, businessmen wore suits with navy blue or regimental ties; bowler hats, too. If they had any hair, they kept it short and neat. They were carrying briefcases and umbrellas. They looked like Mr Banks in Mary Poppins, commuted by rail and relaxed over the weekend by playing golf. On the other hand, rock stars, on the other hand, wore T-shirts and frayed jeans. Their hair was long. They looked like Rasputin, travelled by private jet, and relaxed by turning smart cars into hotel swimming ponds.

Lauder condemned the Ivy League University's decision to host the 'Palestine Writes Literature Festival' last month, which featured many speakers who openly promote anti-Semitic and anti-Israel positions. In the weeks leading up to the 'festival,' the magnate and major contributor to the Lauder Institute at Penn referred to a meeting in which he had a discussion with President Magill during which he begged her to cancel the function.' 'I told you that those invited to the festival had not only a strong anti-Israel bias but also outright antisemitism.' You were already aware of some of this,' he wrote, adding that he told her that he was afraid that the event would'tarnish' the school's reputation.