Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has taken aim at world leaders and championed human rights as he rocked London’s Hyde Park in a politically-charged gig.
The 74-year-old bassist treated the thousands gathered in central London to prog-rock classics while lambasting the likes of Donald Trump.
Crowds cheered as the words “Trump is a pig” were emblazoned on stage alongside edited images of the US president, while Waters played the 1977 hit Pigs at the British Summer Time festival.
Children in Guantanamo Bay-style orange suits joined Waters during Another Brick in the Wall, while messages urging the audience to “resist” anti-Semitism, war crimes, and pollution filled the screens during the interval.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley were also named as people to fight against.
And an inflatable pig, tethered to the ground, bearing the words “Stay human, or die” soared above the park as the sun set on Friday night’s show.
Read the report by Harriet Line (Press Association) in The Australian.