{"id":114,"date":"2007-01-07T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/~ccb\/fs\/pink-floyd-news\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-07-08T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T18:40:03","slug":"new-song-from-roger-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2007\/01\/new-song-from-roger-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"New song from Roger Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film &#8220;The Last Mimzy&#8221; will feature &#8220;Hello (I Love You),&#8221; a new song from <strong>Pink Floyd <\/strong>co-founder <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The song will be featured in the film, and will play during the end credits. It will also be included on <strong>New Line Cinema<\/strong>&#8216;s release of the official film sountrack this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Waters collaborated with <strong>James Guthrie<\/strong> (&#8220;The Wall&#8221;) and composer <strong>Howard Shore <\/strong>(&#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221;) on the new song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been great collaborating with (director) <strong>Bob Shaye <\/strong>and Howard Shore on &#8216;The Last Mimzy,'&#8221; says Waters. &#8220;I think together we&#8217;ve come up with a song that captures the themes of the movie, the clash between humanity&#8217;s best and worst instincts, and how a child&#8217;s innocence can win the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musicians on the track, which was written by Waters and Shore, include drummer <strong>Steve Gadd<\/strong> (<strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong>, <strong>Steely Dan<\/strong>), guitarist <strong>Gerry Leonard<\/strong> (music director and guitarist for <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>), and Waters on bass and vocals. The film&#8217;s 6-year-old star, <strong>Rhiannon Leigh Wryn<\/strong>, sings along with Waters on the chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The film stars <strong>Timothy Hutton<\/strong> (&#8220;Ordinary People&#8221;), <strong>Joely Richardson<\/strong> (&#8220;Nip\/Tuck&#8221;) and <strong>Rainn Wilson<\/strong>, and is based on a science fiction short story by <strong>Lewis Padgett<\/strong>. It tells the story of two children who discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be released nationwide on March 23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000Q66FB6?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=floydsliptm-20&#038;link_code=as3&#038;camp=211189&#038;creative=373489&#038;creativeASIN=B000Q66FB6\">Order your copy of &#8220;The Last Mimzy&#8221; DVD now<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000MV8CRU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=floydsliptm-20&#038;link_code=as3&#038;camp=211189&#038;creative=373489&#038;creativeASIN=B000MV8CRU\">order &#8220;The Last Mimzy&#8221; soundtrack on CD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film &#8220;The Last Mimzy&#8221; will feature &#8220;Hello (I Love You),&#8221; a new song from Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters. The song will be featured in the film, and will play during the end credits. It will also be included on New Line Cinema&#8216;s release of the official film sountrack this spring. Waters collaborated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recordings","category-roger-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}