And that we can reduce the percentage possibility of some truly appalling trauma, be it the Bomb, AIDS, a minor invasion, or simply being told you have no worth, we don’t need you, piss off.

I know there is a utopian idea that the possibility exists for communities to exist where people try to look after one another, and co-operate with one another, in the hope that they can get from the cradle to the grave, and at some point along the way feel fulfilled. But is home the most important thing to a human being in the sense of belonging to a certain thing or person? Having that sense of security and the feeling you are not going to be moved on or blown to pieces? The feeling that you have the right to a continuous existence within the context of the society to which you belong from the moment you are born to the moment you die in order to arrange yourself into a good shape to die in? I don’t know. Is home keeping out of the weather? Being reasonably well fed? Being safe? Is home doing those things in the context of a family? We all think we understand what we mean by the idea of home. To answer your question of what the main themes of the record are, Ian Ritchie, who produced the record, is quite distressed that I didn’t call it Home, which for a long time was the working title, because one of the things that the record is about is what home is. It is lend credence to the idea that in there somewhere is a story, if you care to search for it. It’s a bit like the map in the frontispiece of Winnie The Pooh, in that it has dotted lines showing Billy’s route, where great-uncle David’s house is, and where Radio KAOS is in Laurel Canyon. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.“Included in this program is a map of the northern hemisphere, showing all the western listening devices, where they are and what they are, and including an exploded map of South Wales where BILLY, the main character, comes from, and an exploded map of LA, where he goes to. Waters does have an official Facebook page (though, as he says, he is banned by former bandmate David Gilmour from posting on Pink Floyd's Facebook page, with its 30 million followers).Īs word got out about Waters' remarks, he invited 'trolls' to challenge him: 'Call me a hypocrite for posting this on Zuckerberg's crappy censored platform.' She's ugly we'll give her a 1' - how the f- did he get any power? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.' But how did this little p- who started off by saying, ' She's pretty we'll give her a 4 out of 5. I've got him sit - no, I shouldn't tell you. 'Zuckerberg features in my new rock ’n’ roll show. No more.’”Īt the People's Forum event last week, the man whose concerts have featured Trump's head attached to a pig's body elaborated on his disdain for the Facebook founder. 'And yet they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is so that it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general public so the general public could go, 'What?! What? No. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless a work. Waters read the rights request from a printed page at the People's Forum event, held June 10: ''We want to thank you for considering this project.

He has been vociferously anti-Trump, anti-Brexit and has spoken at rallies for years in support of Assange.

His support of a cultural boycott of Israel in response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in particular, has been controversial. 2,' ' Comfortably Numb' and ' Wish You Were Here,' Waters has been a vocal activist for a number of causes. So those of us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit - in terms of the control of the publishing of my songs I do, anyway - so I will not be a party to this b-s-, Zuckerberg.'Īpart from cofounding one of rock's seminal concept-oriented bands and writing or co-writing such classics as ' Money,' 'Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 'I only mention that because it's the insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. And the answer is 'F- you!,'' he added as the crowd cheered. 'So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me, right? Arrived this morning with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money.

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