Legendary rock band Pink Floyd is releasing a new single "Hey Hey Rise Up" on Friday in support of the people of Ukraine, the band said in a statement on Thursday.
Highlights
- The song is performed by guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason, with bass player Guy Pratt and Nitin Sawhney on keyboard.
- It’s the first new music from the band since 1994, and all proceeds will go to Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
- The song features vocals by Andriy Khlyvnyuk from the Ukrainian band Boombox.
- The band used audio of the Ukrainian singer singing in central Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, where he performed “a rousing Ukrainian protest song written during the first world war which has been taken up across the world over the past month in protest” against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.