Pink Floyd fans walk out of Roger Waters gig at London Palladium after he spent an HOUR reading from his unpublished autobiography and told stories about his pet duck called Donald
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 – leading some to walk out.
Many left their seats after the controversial musician spent an hour reading passages from his unpublished book from a laptop.
The London Palladium gig was billed as a night 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 named Donald, which he discussed for 20 minutes – leaving audience members stunned.
He told some speakers: ‘If you want to tell stories, tell them on your own time to your own audience in your own f****n theatre. By the way, if you can show some restraint and stop yelling again.’
Waters was investigated by German police earlier this year for wearing a Nazi-style black trench coat with a red armband at his concerts in Germany.
Photo 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 a fake machine gun during his hit songs In The Flesh and Run Like Hell.
Last week it emerged that he had visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in prison.
Assange (52) has been incarcerated in Belmarsh Prison in London since April 2019 after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.
He currently faces extradition to the United States on 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 the Pink Floyd co-founder, who has faced criticism for his controversial pro-Russian and allegedly anti-Semitic views, visited Assange in prison.
Julian Assange (52) (pictured) has been incarcerated in Belmarsh Prison in London since April 2019 after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act. He currently faces extradition to the United States on charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion
Waters has recently faced criticism for his controversial pro-Russian and allegedly anti-Semitic views. He is pictured wearing his controversial Nazi-style coat and machine gun during his concert at London’s O2 Arena in June this year
Bob Ezrin has 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: A inflatable pig with insults aimed at Donald Trump at a 2016 Roger Waters concert in California. Allegations were made that Waters wanted a similar pig plastered with anti-Semitic language
The musician’s visit to Belmarsh came days after he was accused of singing that his agent was a ‘fucking Jew’ in an improvised song, according to an account from the rocker’s former 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.
He claimed that Mr. Waters, while in the studio, came up with 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 verse was : ‘ Because Mori is an insulting Jew.”
Mr Ezrin features 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-style trench coat with a red armband as part of his most recent tour.
Mr Ware previously reported on allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labor Party for the BBC’s Panorama programme.
Mr. Ezrin, who has also worked with big names such as Lou Reed, U2, Taylor Swift and Aerosmith, said he was ’embarrassed’ to admit that out of shock he didn’t challenge the bassist on his alleged thing.
He added: ‘It was my first inclination that there might 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 London’s O2 Arena in June this year
Music mogul Bryan Morrison, who was allegedly the target of an anti-Semitic slur sung by Roger Waters while 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 allegations of antisemitism within the Labor Party.
“Now, Roger knew I was Jewish, so I didn’t know if it was another one of those push-button things he was doing, just to see if I would respond, or if he just didn’t even understand . how offensive it can be to a Jewish person.’
He is convinced that Mr. Waters does not actually consider himself anti-Semitic, despite the nature of his alleged comments.
Mr Ezrin concluded: ‘I don’t believe that Roger sees himself as an antisemite in the same way that most people don’t see themselves as racist.
“But he walks like one, he quacks like 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.