Pink Floyd's Roger Waters has slammed Drake and The Weeknd after critics shunned the 78-year-old's gig in Canada.
The rock legend aired his frustration when he was asked why his recent show in Toronto failed to attracted any reviews.
When told The Weeknd was set to open his After Hours Til Dawn tour in the city the same night, Roger quipped: "I have no idea what or who the Weeknd is, because I don't listen to much music.
"People have told me he's a big act.
"Well, good luck to him. I've got nothing against him. Would it not have been possible to review his show one night and my show another night? 'I'm not trying to make a personal attack. I'm just saying it seemed odd," he told Canada's The Globe and Mail.
Roger also clapped back at Canadian superstar Drake, adding: "And, by the way, with all due respect to the Weeknd or Drake or any of them, I am far, far, far more important than any of them will ever be, however many billions of streams they've got. "
Selling more than £250 million records worldwide, Pink Floyd are one of the most successful groups of all time.
Roger founded the band in 1965 alongside Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright.
David Gilmour joined the band two years later in 1967, and Syd left the following year due to mental health problems.
Despite their stellar success with mega successful albums including The Dark Side of the Moon, there were reports of a fallout within the group, with Richard leaving in 1979, followed by Roger in 1985.
However, the classic line-up of Roger, David, Richard and Nick performed together at Live 8 in Hyde Park on July 2, 2005.
It was their first gig in almost 25 years. Keyboard player Rick sadly died three years later, aged 65.
There were hopes the band would reunite, but in 2020 Roger said David thought he was “irrelevant”, claiming the guitarist had refused him access to Floyd’s website and social media channels.
“About a year ago, I convened a sort of Camp David for the surviving members of Pink Floyd at a hotel at an airport in London, where I proposed all kinds of measures to get past this awful impasse that we have and predicament we find ourself in," he stated.
"It bore no fruit, I’m sorry to say, but one of the things I asked for, I suggested that because whoever the 30 million of you are who subscribe to the web page, you do so because of the body of work the five of us created: Syd (Barrett), me, Rick, Nick and David over a number of years.
“David thinks he owns it. I think he thinks that because I left the band in 1985, that he owns Pink Floyd, that he is Pink Floyd and I’m irrelevant and I should just keep my mouth shut.”
A spokesman for David declined to comment.
