Roger Waters has been “secretly” re-recording ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’.
The former Pink Floyd star has revealed plans for a solo model of the band’s iconic 1973 album having been engaged on the undertaking for months with out the information of band members David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, he mentioned: “I wrote ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’. Let’s do away with all this ‘we’ c***! Of course we have been a band, there have been 4 of us, all of us contributed – nevertheless it’s my undertaking and I wrote it. So… blah!”
Walters wrote the album’s lyrics and is credited with composing three of the ten tracks together with co-writing the music for an additional two.
He has taken the document’s iconic instrumental songs – similar to ‘On The Run’ – and has carried out an unedited prose poem over the music after being impressed by a nasty dream.
He added: “It was a revelation, almost Patmosian whatever that means… a fight with evil, in this case an apparently all-powerful hooded and cloaked figure… it brooked no rebuttal.”
The dream included a bonfire with the voice of Atticus Finch, and he believes it’s tied to his massive thought about following “the voice of reason”, which he considers to be the message of each the unique ‘Dark Side’ and his new model.
Asked why he has remade the document, he mentioned: “Because not sufficient individuals recognised what it’s about, what it was I used to be saying then.”
The resolution to re-record the LP will not assist restore his fractured relationship together with his former bandmates, specific after Gilmour’s spouse Polly Samson just lately accused him of being an anti-Semite and Vladimir Putin apologist.
She tweeted: “Sadly @rogerwaters you’re antisemitic to your rotten core.
“Also a Putin apologist and a mendacity, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac.
“Enough of your nonsense.”
In response, an announcement on Waters’ Twitter web page says he’s “aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely”.
His group added: “He is currently taking advice as to his position.”
