Songfacts®:

• Pink Floyd's first new original music in 28 years, "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" features vocals by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox.
• Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour had known Khlyvnyuk and Boombox since 2015, when they both played at Koko, London, in support of the Belarus Free Theatre. When Gilmour – who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law and grandchildren – saw an Instagram video of Khlyvnyuk singing the Ukrainian World War I protest song "The Red Viburnum in The Meadow" in Kyiv's Sofiyskaya Square, he felt inspired to do something to support Ukraine in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.
  
  "I read that Andriy had left his American tour with Boombox, had gone back to Ukraine, and joined up with the Territorial Defense," Gilmour told Audacy. "Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war. It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music."
• Gilmour contacted drummer Nick Mason and suggested they should record something using the Pink Floyd name. "We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent, peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world's major powers," said the guitarist.
• On March 30, 2022, Gilmour and Mason, together with longtime Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt and keyboardist Nitin Sawhney, recorded "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" They used Khlyvnyuk's vocals from his Instagram video of him singing "The Red Viburnum in The Meadow."
• Gala Wright, the daughter of the late Pink Floyd keyboardist and founding member Richard Wright, was present during the recording of the song.
• The song title comes from the last line of "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow": "Hey, hey, rise up and rejoice."
• Pink Floyd released the song on April 8, 2022, with all proceeds from the single going towards the Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief Fund. The band revealed on December 24, 2022 that "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" had raised £500,000 for five humanitarian charities: Hospitallers, The Kharkiv And Przemysl Project, Vostok SOS, Kyiv Volunteer and Livyj Bereh.
• "Hey Hey Rise Up" is the first new original song recorded and released by Pink Floyd since their 1994 album The Division Bell. Yeah, we've not forgotten about The Endless River – their 2014 record is based on material recorded during sessions for The Division Bell.
• Longtime Coldplay collaborator Mat Whitecross directed the video. The clip shows Pink Floyd playing their instruments as Khlyvnyuk's Instagram video screens behind them.
• "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" opens with a sample from a different recording of "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow" by the Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir.