How Pink Floyd (members) reunited to record a song for Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine started, Singer Andriy Khalyvnyuk stopped his U.S. tour and returned to his homeland to take up arms in defense of his homeland.

The Boombox singer uploaded a clip to Instagram, which showed him wearing military fatigues, a New York Yankees baseball hat, and firing a rifle while performing “The Red Viburnum In The Meadow”, a protest song from Ukraine that was written during World War I.

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He wrote, “A little motivation by the leader of the group Boombox’ Andriy Khlyvnyuk.”

Pink Floyd, the rock band of legends, has now taken Khlyvnyuk’s vocals and created a charity single around them — their first original music since 1994’s “Division Bell.”

The track “Hey Hey Rise Up” features 90 seconds of David Gilmour’s string-bending solo and Floyd drummer Nick Mason. (Signaling is not necessary, Roger Waters, the estranged bassist, is absent.