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Pink Floyd Duo Reunite for charity show

Jul 13, 2010 Uncategorized
Posted by Steven

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters put their differences aside to perform on stage for charity.

The musicians, who fell out in the early 1980s, performed at a fundraising event of 200 guests hosted by Jemima Khan to help Palestinian children.

The pair performed a trio of Floyd tracks – Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb and chart-topping single Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two) – as well as the Phil Spector song To Know Him Is To Love Him. Gilmour and Waters were joined by Guy Pratt on bass and acoustic guitar, Harry Waters and Jonjo Grisdale on keyboards, Andy Newmark on drums and Chester Kamen on guitar.

The last time Gilmour and Waters shared a stage was when Pink Floyd briefly reunited for a one-off performance at Live 8 in Hyde Park five years ago.

But the duo ruled out further shows despite lucrative offers to tour in the US.

The performance by the bass player and guitarist was for the Hoping Foundation (Hoping stands for Hope and Optimism for Palestinians in the Next Generation), organised by Bella Freud.

More than £350,000 was raised for the charity at the event at Kiddington Hall in Oxfordshire on Saturday.

Waters is to revisit the band’s The Wall album for a North American tour from September with shows in the UK next year. Sadly the Wall Tour will not include the David Gilmour which will begin on September 15th in Toronto.