Pink Floyd's Roger Walters under investigation by Berlin police for 'Nazi-style' concert costume
—traffic heavily in the black leather and armband look, as a way to show its main character’s descent into musical megalomania. Waters’ highly successfultour, which kicked off in 2010, incorporated many of these elements into its run, including having the band dress up in black fascist uniforms and wear armbands with the swastika-reminiscent “Marching Hammers” logo.
But that hasn’t quieted concerns over his penchant for dressing up in black leather and pretending to fire machine guns into the audience. Or flying his infamous flying pig balloon with the Star of David . Or the bit in the recent shows where Rogers opted to put up on the screen various activists and notable figures, including Anne Frank, who were killed by authoritarian regimes—including Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist that the Israeli military has been accused of killing.
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