Roger Waters sends message to “little prick” Ed Sheeran amid Macklemore-Palestine row

Roger Waters has shared a message with Ed Sheeran regarding the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour for making pro-Palestine comments on stage. READ MORE: 50 geeky facts about Pink Floyd The controversy surrounding the ‘Loop’ tour started when the rapper made an impassioned speech on-stage while opening for Sheeran, calling for “all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality” and for a “free Palestine”. He then faced calls for his removal from the tour by the Israeli-American Council, who claimed he had used his platform to “advance a one-sided political agenda”, and went on to respond to critics – saying striving for equality “should never be controversial”. He was still removed from the tour, and went on to share a statement in which he claimed that Robert Kraft — the owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium — started a campaign against Sheeran to drop him or the shows couldn’t go ahead. Kraft spoke out to defend his actions, and Sheeran addressed backlash, saying that he was “not complicit” or responsible for the decision, and had tried hard to “build bridges, to find a solution”. Since then, more support acts on the tour have also pulle...