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“They haven’t agreed on anything for 20 years”: How Ice-T got Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s go ahead for Body Count’s Comfortably Numb cover

Ice-T/David Gilmour/Body Count.

Back in September we highlighted the fact that Body Count – the long-standing LA-based heavy metal rock/rap outfit with rapper Ice-T as its centrepiece – had just recorded and released a highly unlikely cover version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb.

Giving the classic their own distinctive spin, the band used the track – with an injection of new lyrics – to highlight the way that we’ve all become numb to the world’s problems, with increasing apathy around doing something about it.

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