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Roger Waters
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I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political.
— (November 2005)
Roger Waters
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (born 1943)
- Audience634K
- Fame82.9
- Momentum10.0
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- Audience634K
- Fame82.9
- Momentum10.0
- Global rank#239
- United Kingdom rank#71
- Musicians rank#144
Born 1943 · age 83United Kingdom
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The bassist who became Pink Floyd's conceptual architect after Syd Barrett left, then spent decades in court battles and geopolitical controversy that rivaled the scale of the albums he made famous.
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George Roger Waters co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 as bassist, and after Barrett's 1968 departure became the band's principal lyricist and conceptual driver. Under his leadership they released The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut — concept albums that made them one of the most commercially successful groups in rock history by the early 1980s. Creative differences pushed him out in 1985, triggering a legal fight over the band's name that settled in 1987. His solo catalog includes The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio K.A.O.S., Amused to Death, an…
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Roger Waters
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The very early days of Pink Floyd were magical. We played small auditoriums for entranced audiences, and there was a wonderful sense of communion.
— USA Today (1999)
Roger Waters
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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
— Gold (1992).
Roger Waters
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I have nothing against Dave Gilmour furthering his own goals. It's just the idea of Dave's solo career masquerading as Pink Floyd that offends me!
— Penthouse (September 1988).
Roger Waters
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Asked what his artistic purpose was: "There is no purpose. We do whatever we do. You either blow your brains out or get on with something.
— June 1987
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- The Dark Side of the Moon Redux2023
- Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale2018
- Is This the Life We Really Want?2017
- Ça ira2005
- Amused to Death1992
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