Pink Floyd fans walk out of Roger Waters gig at London Palladium after he spent an HOUR reading from his unpublished autobiography and told stories about his pet duck called Donald
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Controversial Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters told his audience to ‘F*** off’ at a gig as he spent an hour reading from his biography – prompting some to walk out.
Many left their seats after the controversial musician spent an hour reading passages from his unpublished book from a laptop computer.
The London Palladium gig had been billed as an evening where he would play the iconic Dark Side of the Moon album.
Waters, 80, read out pages of notes about his pets, including a duck called Donald, which he discussed for 20 minutes – leaving audience members stunned.
He said some who were talking: ‘If you want to tell stories tell them in your own time to your own audience in your own f****ing theatre. By the way, if you can show constraint and stop shouting again.’
Earlier this year Waters was investigated by German police for wearing a Nazi-style black trench coat with a red armband at his concerts in Germany.
Picture shows Roger Waters at the London Palladium last night at the first of two dates there
Some Pink Floyd fans walked out of a Roger Waters gig at the London Palladium last night
He also pretended to shoot the crowd with an imitation machine gun during his hit songs In The Flesh and Run Like Hell.
Last week it emerged he had visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in prison.
Assange, 52, has been confined in Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019 after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.
He is currently facing extradition to the United States to face charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
Mr Waters, 80, visited Assange accompanied by his wife Stella Assange, 39, and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who is best known for his role in the Greek debt crisis in 2015.
It was the first time that the Pink Floyd co-founder, who has faced criticism for his controversially pro-Russian and allegedly anti-Semitic views, had visited Assange in prison.
Julian Assange, 52, (pictured) has been confined in Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019 after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act. He is currently facing extradition to the United States to face charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion
Waters has recently faced criticism for his controversially pro-Russian and allegedly anti-Semitic views. He is pictured wearing his controversial Nazi-style coat and machine gun during his concert at the O2 Arena in London in June this year
Bob Ezrin claimed that Roger Waters once sang an improvised song in which he referred to one-time Pink Floyd agent Bryan Morrison as a ‘f***ing Jew’
Pictured: An inflatable pig emblazoned with insults aimed at Donald Trump at a 2016 Roger Waters concert in California. Claims have been made that Waters wanted a similar pig to be plastered with anti-semitic language
The musician’s visit to Belmarsh came days after he was accused of singing that his agent was a ‘f***ing Jew’ in an improvised song, according to an account from the rocker’s ex-producer in an explosive new documentary.
Bob Ezrin, a Jewish man who produced hit Floyd albums including The Wall and A Momentary Lapse of Reason, told investigative journalist John Ware that the 80-year-old was a ‘bully’ in his eyes.
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He claimed that Mr Waters, while in the studio, invented an offensive song about the band’s then-agent Bryan Morrison, saying: ‘I can’t remember the exact circumstance but something like…the last line of the couplet was: ‘Because Mori is a f***ing Jew.”
Mr Ezrin appears in The Dark Side of Roger Waters, a new documentary produced by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) – months after Waters appeared on stage in a Nazi-esque trench coat with a red armband as part of his most recent tour.
Mr Ware has previously reported on claims of anti-semitism in the Labour Party for the BBC’s Panorama programme.
Mr Ezrin, who has also worked with huge names like Lou Reed, U2, Taylor Swift and Aerosmith, said he was ’embarrassed’ to admit that he didn’t challenge the bassist on his alleged ditty, out of shock.
He added: ‘It was my first inclination that there may be some anti-semitism under the surface.
Waters courted controversy this year after dressing in a Nazi-style trench coat and holding a fake machine gun during a concert at the O2 Arena in London in June this year
Music mogul Bryan Morrison, who was allegedly the target of an anti-semitic ditty sung by Roger Waters whilst in the recording studio. He died in 2008
The Campaign Against Antisemitism’s documentary, The Dark Side of Roger Waters, is presented by TV journalist John Ware, who previously investigated claims of anti-semitism within the Labour Party
‘Now, Roger knew that I’m Jewish, so I didn’t know whether this was another one of those button-poking things that he was doing, just to see if I would react, or if he just didn’t even get how offensive that might be to a Jewish person.’
He is convinced that Mr Waters genuinely doesn’t see himself as anti-semitic despite the nature of his alleged comments.
Mr Ezrin concluded: ‘I don’t believe that Roger sees himself as an anti-semite, in the same way that most people don’t see themselves as racist.
‘But he walks like one, he quacks one, he swims like one – so you know, from my point of view he’s functionally a duck.’
Bryan Morrison, the alleged subject of Mr Waters’ improvised song according to Mr Erzin, died in 2008 aged 66 after spending two years in a coma following a fall from a horse.
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