{"id":45811,"date":"2022-04-08T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=45811"},"modified":"2022-04-08T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:49:07","slug":"today-pink-floyd-release-first-new-song-in-28-years-to-benefit-ukraine-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=45811","title":{"rendered":"Today: Pink Floyd Release First New Song In Almost 30 Years To Benefit Ukraine &#8220;Hey Hey Rise Up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey, Hey Rise Up!&#8221; single released TODAY!<\/p>\n<p>Breaking an almost 30 years of silence as a band, David Gilmour and Nick Mason released their first new song as Pink Floyd. That&#8217;s right, the last time they released new music under the &#8220;Floyd&#8221; banner was 1994 with the release of &#8220;The Division Bell&#8221; (&#8220;The Endless River&#8221; 2014 being previous songs not used on &#8220;The Division Bell&#8221;). The new song, and its accompanied music video, was released earlier today with proceeds to go towards the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The two recorded the song just a couple weeks ago. Other musicians joining them on this release include Guy Pratt on Bass and Nitin Sawhney on Keyboards.<\/p>\n<p>In the song, you&#8217;ll hear samples of Ukrainian band Boombox, singing the Ukrainian Anthem, &#8220;Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pink Floyd - Hey Hey Rise Up (feat. Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/saEpkcVi1d4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45814\" src=\"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pink-Floyd-New-Song-Hey-Hey-Rise-Up-1020x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pink-Floyd-New-Song-Hey-Hey-Rise-Up-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pink-Floyd-New-Song-Hey-Hey-Rise-Up-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pink-Floyd-New-Song-Hey-Hey-Rise-Up-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pink-Floyd-New-Song-Hey-Hey-Rise-Up-768x771.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pink-Floyd-New-Song-Hey-Hey-Rise-Up-50x50.jpg 50w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pink-Floyd-New-Song-Hey-Hey-Rise-Up.jpg 1666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hey, Hey Rise Up!&#8221; single released TODAY! Breaking an almost 30 years of silence as a band, David Gilmour and Nick Mason released their first new song as Pink Floyd. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-features","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}