In November, Pink Floyd will release its first album since 1994. Soon after, founding member Roger Waters will mark 30 years since leaving Pink Floyd in 1985, which means he's been out of the band for much longer than he was actually in it.
Fans, though, are having trouble grasping this. Waters, who didn't play on Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason from 1987 or 1994's The Division Bell, took to Facebook today to gripe about the questions he and his wife are getting about the forthcoming record:
Some people have been asking Laurie, my wife, about a new album I have coming out in November. Errhh? I don't have an album coming out, they are probably confused. David Gilmour and Nick Mason have an album coming out. It's called Endless River. David and Nick constitute the group Pink Floyd. I on the other hand, am not part of Pink Floyd.
"Phew!" Waters writes. "This is not rocket science, people, get a grip."
Waters has released a handful of solo albums since leaving Pink Floyd, including his opera Ça Ira in 2005. His relations with the David Gilmour-fronted Pink Floyd haven't always been friendly—he famously described The Division Bell as "just rubbish...nonsense from beginning to end."
Though we know he isn't involved in the new Pink Floyd album, we anxiously await his opinion of it.
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