Roger Waters has responded to Thom Yorke’s comments in Rolling Stone about Waters’ and others criticism of Radiohead playing a July 19 show in Tel Aviv.
A letter was published to the group from the likes of Waters, Thurston Moore, Robert Wyatt, Julie Christie, Desmond Tutu and many others asking that Radiohead cancel their Israeli show in support of the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement. Yorke said that he didn’t agree with the protest against Israel over Palestine and the letter “extremely upsetting”.
Today, Waters issued an open letter, first published by Rolling Stone, taking issue with Yorke’s version of events:
Read the full article by Roger Wink at Noise 11.