The musician warned against the danger of populist rhetoric aimed at disconnecting people of different nations, races and religions.
Roger Waters said at the opening of the exhibition Pink Floyd, Their Mortal Remains that celebrates the legendary band’s 50th anniversary he was ready to consider an opportunity to perform The Wall concerts along the US-Mexican border, where US president Donald Trump plans to build a wall to keep out immigrants from Mexico.
“But before this can happen, there will first need to be an awakening against these far-right policies,” said Waters who was joined by Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason.
The musician notes The Wall album has become very relevant today, when the world speaks more often about building walls and isolation. The 1979 record shows how these physical and especially mental barriers between races, nations and religions can be dangerous for the world.
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd already criticised Donald Trump’s views and policy during their performances. At the end of the last year, Waters compared the 45th US president’s coming to power with Adolf Hitler’s rise in Germany in the 1930s and likened Trump and his team’s rhetoric to fascism. During a Mexico concert in October, some songs were performed in front of the screen with images of then Republican candidate holding a Nazi salute.
One of Pink Floyd’s most politically significant The Wall shows took place in Berlin in 1990 soon after the fall of the notorious Berlin Wall.
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