Roger Waters
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (born 1943) · United Kingdom · Musicians
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Something wrong?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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The Lockdown SessionsAlbum2018Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's TaleAlbum2017Is This the Life We Really Want?Album2005“I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political.”In their wordsNovember 2005(November 2005)Ça iraAlbum1992“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.”In their wordsGold (1992).Amused to DeathAlbum, 19921987“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.”In their wordsJune 1987June 1987
Radio K.A.O.S.Album, 19871984“Earlier this year we went skiing and I was in a shop, paying a bill and there was a woman standing there whom I knew slightly.”In their wordsKarl Dallas Interview, 1984
The Pros and Cons of Hitch HikingAlbum, 19841972“It's like saying 'Give a man a Les Paul guitar and he becomes Eric Clapton,' you know. It's not true.”In their wordsPink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972).1967“We've got the recording side together and not the playing side.”In their wordsAugust 1967Melody Maker (August 1967).1943Born6 September 1943Also in Deutsch
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, I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political.
The very early days of Pink Floyd were magical. We played small auditoriums for entranced audiences, and there was a wonderful sense of communion.
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.
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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, and a French Revolution opera, Ça Ira. In 1990 he staged The Wall - Live in Berlin for 450,000 people; his 2010-2013 Wall Live tour became the highest-grossing solo artist tour at the time. His political stances - defending Putin and the Russian invasion, supporting BDS, calling Israel's actions apartheid and likening them to Nazi Germany - have drawn bans from Frankfurt, Poland, MLB, and multiple other entities amid accusations of antisemitism he calls conflations with anti-Zionism.
In common with Roger
David GilmourAlso in Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)
Doyle Bramhall IIAlso in Roger Waters: In The Flesh - Live (2000)
Bob HoskinsAlso in Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Richard WrightAlso in A Technicolor Dream (2008)
Bahman GhobadiAlso in The Four Walls (2021)
Sut JhallyAlso in The Occupation of the American Mind (2016)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.