“Roger asked, ‘Who’s singing it?’ ‘Ice-T.’ ‘Approved!’” How Ice-T got Roger Waters and David Gilmour to stop bickering with a cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb

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Former Pink Floyd bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour don’t agree on much these days, but Body Count frontman Ice-T says he got the pair to agree on something thanks to his band’s cover of Floyd’s classic 1979 track Comfortably Numb – and even got Gilmour to play on the track.

Speaking in the brand new end-of-year issue of Classic Rock, the rapper revealed that he approached the two warring ex-colleagues’ camps to get approval Body Count’s version, which features new lyrics from Ice addressing the current state of the world.