Pink Floyd will release a 7-inch vinyl edition and CD single of “Hey Hey Rise Up” on July 15 in Europe.<\/p>\n
Initially released digitally in April in support of the people of Ukraine, the track reached #1 in 27 countries.<\/p>\n
Both formats will also feature a newly-reworked, previously-unreleased version of “A Great Day for Freedom” taken from the band’s 1994 album, “The Division Bell.”<\/p>\n
The lead track sees David Gilmour<\/strong> and Nick Mason<\/strong> joined by long time Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt<\/strong> and Nitin Sawhney<\/strong> on keyboards; and features vocals by Andriy Khlyvnyuk<\/strong> of Ukrainian band Boombox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n When the track was first recorded at the end of March, Khlyvnyuk, who left his band\u2019s U.S. tour to return home and fight for his country, was in a hospital bed in Kyiv recovering from a shrapnel injury. Proceeds for the physical release and the ongoing digital proceeds will go to Ukraine humanitarian relief.<\/p>\n Japan will see the release Aug. 3; and the U.S., Canada, Australia and Mexico will see it Oct. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pink Floyd will release a 7-inch vinyl edition and CD single of “Hey Hey Rise Up” on July 15 in Europe. Initially released digitally in April in support of the people of Ukraine, the track reached #1 in 27 countries. Both formats will also feature a newly-reworked, previously-unreleased version of “A Great Day for Freedom” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10936,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}