Pink Floyd to Release First Single in 28 Years to Raise Money for Ukraine

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Hey Hey Rise Up,” will debut online at midnight in the U.K., with all proceeds going to Ukrainian humanitarian relief.The vocals are by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox, whose viral March 30 Instagram video featured him singing a Ukrainian protest song from World War I in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square.

The single takes its title from the last line of “The Red Viburnum In the Meadow,” which translates as “Hey, hey, rise up and rejoice.”“It’s a really difficult and frustrating thing to see this extraordinarily crazy, unjust attack by a major power on an independent, peaceful, democratic nation.

The frustration of seeing that and thinking ‘What the f— can I do?’ is sort of unbearable,” Pink Floyd co-founder David Gilmour told The Guardian in an interview published Thursday.

A post shared by Андрій Хливнюк (@andriihorolski)Gilmour played with Boombox in a 2015 London show in support of the Belarus Free Theatre, where the Ukrainian singer’s visa problems kept him from attending. “We played ‘Wish You Were Here,’ for Andriy that night,” Gilmour wrote. “Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war.