Pink Floyd star David Gilmour has confirmed that he will never again perform with his former bandmate Roger Waters amid their long-running feud.
Gilmour, 79, and Waters, 82, have been feuding for decades since the latter quit the group in 1985.
And most recently, Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson hit out at Waters in 2023 accusing him of being ‘antisemitic to his rotten core’ in an online row over Israel and Ukraine, with Gilmour then supporting her claims.
Polly posted online about Waters, seemingly in response to an article he had shared concerning Israel.
She posted on X telling Waters he was ‘antisemitic to (his) rotten core’ adding that he was a ‘Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac’.
Waters responded by denouncing the claims as ‘wildly inaccurate’ and ‘incendiary’.
Pink Floyd star David Gilmour has confirmed that he will never again perform with his former bandmate Roger Waters amid their long-running feud
Pink Floyd, pictured left to right: Nick Mason, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Rick Wright
Gilmour then backed his wife’s claims on social media, saying that ‘every word’ of her tweet denouncing Waters was ‘demonstrably true’.
After the drama, Gilmour has made his feelings clear in an interview with The Telegraph, saying they’d never reunite to perform together.
He said: ‘There is no possible way that I would do that.’
In July Waters risked facing prosecution after he shared a video declaring support for now-banned Palestine Action.
The musician said in an online video post on social media: ‘Parliament has been corrupted by a genocidal foreign power. Stand up and be counted – it’s now.’
He condemned the Government’s new move to label Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ as a betrayal of justice and democracy.
The singer and bass guitarist, posting a video online, also called out Israel as he said Sir Keir Starmer’s UK administration had been ‘corrupted by agents of a genocidal foreign power’.
The charity Campaign Against Antisemitism then responded to his post, saying they were readying to pursue legal action against the singer.
A spokesperson for the organisation said in a statement: ‘We have reviewed the video posted by Roger Waters. Palestine Action has been proscribed. Anyone expressing support for it contrary to section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 commits a criminal offence.
Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson hit out at Waters in 2023 accusing him of being ‘antisemitic to his rotten core’ in an online row over Israel and Ukraine, with Gilmour supporting her claims
The group reunited to play the Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park on July 2 2005
‘We stand ready to privately prosecute offenders in instances where an offence has been made out and the authorities fail to act.’
Waters has been a vocal opponent of Israel’s military actions in the Middle East and has also had a public falling-put with Gilmour, trading barbs online.
Waters took to his personal website in June 2021 to upload a cutting statement detailing the latest drama in his ongoing feud with Gilmour, who had joined the group in 1967 – two years after its formation.
Waters, who quit the band in 1985 though did perform with them at the Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park on July 2 2005, has been a strident critic of Israel.
And in July he gave his public backing to the pressure group Palestine Action, saying: ‘This is Independence Day, July the 5th, 2025.
‘I declare my independence from the government of the UK. I support Palestine Action and I always will because that is the right thing to do.
‘This is the ‘I am Spartacus’ moment – good on everybody who is standing up everywhere and saying, ‘I am Spartacus’.
‘We will not be rolled over by this appalling Labour government in the United Kingdom. Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation. They are lying. That’s all I have to say.’
Pink Floyd, renowned for albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, last performed together at 2005’s Live 8 charity gig.
Waters had previously given an interview to German magazine Berliner Zeitung in which he denounced claims he was an anti-Semite.
Sharing the article on Twitter, the musician wrote: ‘The Truth Will Set Us Free.’
‘Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the Israeli lobby to denounce me as an anti-Semite which I am not, never have been and never will be.’
In July Waters risked facing prosecution after he shared a video declaring support for now-banned Palestine Action
In the piece, Waters said: ‘The most important reason for supplying arms to Ukraine is surely profit for the arms industry.
‘And I wonder: is Putin a bigger gangster than Joe Biden and all those in charge of American politics since World War II? I am not so sure. Putin didn’t invade Vietnam or Iraq? Did he?’
He also insisted Israel was engaged in ‘genocide’ and compared events to the way Great Britain behaved ‘during our colonial period’.
He said: ‘We believed ourselves to be inherently superior to the indigenous people, just as the Israelis do in Palestine. Well, we weren’t and neither are the Israeli Jews.’
