While he's officially credited with writing the lyrics to Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side Of The Moon, as well as composing three tracks, and co-writing two more, Roger Waters is moving to make the record his very own.
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In a new interview with The Telegraph, Waters says pointedly, “I wrote 'The Dark Side of the Moon.' Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap!” Adding, “of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it. So… blah!"
Given a preview of the recordings already completed, including the addition of spoken word poetry over the album's instrumental tracks, Telegraph writer Tristram Fane Saunders reports that "parts are very good indeed," quite different than how Waters himself sees the original. This new recording, he believes, will better convey the album’s central theme, following “the voice of reason,” as Roger admits, “not enough people recognized what it’s about, what it was I was saying then.”
Obviously, none of the other Pink Floyd members will be contributing to the solo release, however, Waters' longtime collaborator and tourmate Gus Seyffert and his girlfriend, singer Bedouine are involved, as is a “Baptist minister” who plays the Hammond organ.
Originally planned for release in March 2023, no official release date for Roger Waters' version of The Dark Side of the Moon has been given, but there's a good chance fans could see something surface sometime in May as Waters continues “tinkering with the recordings.” A launch concert has also been postponed until May.
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Earlier this week, the wife of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, author and lyricist Polly Samson, blasted Waters' over his Ukraine war theories, labeling him a "Putin apologist," and calling him a "lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac." Gilmour, re-sharing the tweet later, captioned his post saying, "every word [of Polly's were] demonstrably true." Waters later issued a statement in response, saying he "refutes [them] entirely" and that they are "incendiary and wildly inaccurate."
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