The One Unusual Factor That Sparked Pink Floyd’s Reunion


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A Reunion That Began With A Joke

When Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and David Gilmour reunited for a few exclusive performances together back in 2011, tensions were still running hot between the two. But in a recent interview with Classic Rock’s Prog Magazine Show, Waters opened up about the reunion and talked about how Gilmour’s terrible sense of humor had a hand in the band’s brief get together. According to Waters, it was actually Gilmour’s terrible sense of humor and a string of bad jokes that temporarily mended the burned bridge between the two legends, and put them back on the stage together for the first time since 2005.

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Gilmour wanted him and Rogers to perform at a fashion show charity event for the Hoping Foundation, a charity that raises money for Palestinian children. At the event, Gilmour suggested that they cover the Teddy Bears 1958 No. 1 Hit “To Know Him Is To Love Him.” Gilmour thought the song was a perfect wink and nod to him and Water’s love/hate relationship, and their inability to break apart after numerous years of fighting together. Waters didn’t really find the joke funny, though.

“Finally, I’d heard enough, and I went, ‘I tell you what. I’m gonna be doing a few nights in the O2. You come and do ‘Comfortably Numb’ one of those nights, and I’ll do the bloody Hoping Foundation.’ And I thought he’d just go, ‘F*** off.’ And he didn’t. He went, ‘All right.’ So we did it.”-Waters revealed.

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