Pink Floyd releases ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’ in support of Ukraine

It’s the first New music from the band The statement added that the proceeds will go to Ukrainian humanitarian relief since 1994.

The song features vocals by Andrei Khlevniuk from the Ukrainian band Boombox. The band used voice to sing Khlevniuk in the center of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, where he performed “a sensational Ukrainian protest song written during World War I that has been taken up around the world for the past month in protest of” Russian invasion.

“It was a powerful moment that made me want to play it on music,” he said.

Pink Floyd said the Ukrainian singer, who left his band to join the army, is in hospital after being hit by shrapnel.

“We, like many, are outraged and frustrated by this despicable act of invading a peaceful and independent democratic country and killing its people at the hands of one of the great powers of the world,” Gemour said.

“We want to express our support for Ukraine and in this way, we show that most of the world thinks it is absolutely wrong for a superpower to invade the independent democratic state that Ukraine has become.”

The band said the artwork for the single featured a painting of the sunflower, Ukraine’s national flower, “a direct reference” to an elderly woman who was seen offering sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers.