Roger Waters

Known for ActingBorn 1943-09-06 (age 82)Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitars in recordings and in concert. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their future use of the group's name and material. The dispute was settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. Waters' solo career has included three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), and Amused to Death (1992). In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the movie When the Wind Blows based on the Raymond Briggs book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance. In 1996, he was inducted into the US and UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tours of 2006–2008. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine Delahaye's libretto based on the early French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour for the Live 8 benefit concert, the group's only appearance with Waters since their last performance with him 24 years earlier. In 2010, he began The Wall Live, a worldwide tour that features a complete performance of The Wall.Read more

Movies & web series

Pink Floyd: Animals (2018 Remix)

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 2 - Germin/ation

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 6 - Obfusc/ation

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 1 - Cambridge St/ation

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 3 - Dramatis/ation

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 7 - Continu/ation

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon - The Ultimate Critical Review

Pink Floyd: Live Anthology

Pink Floyd: The Story

Roger Waters: Radio K.A.O.S.

Roger Waters: Video Anthology

Pink Floyd : The Early Years 1965-1972

Seven Ages of Rock

Pink Floyd - The Reunion Concert

Pink Floyd: KQED

Pink Floyd: Saint-Tropez

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

Roger Waters - Live Earth

The Occupation of the American Mind

Lyd

Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall

Roger Waters: Amused to Death

Roger Waters: The Wall

Pink Floyd: Inside Pink Floyd: A Critical Review 1975-1996

Soundbreaking

Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall

Roger Waters: Us + Them

The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story

The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

Pink Floyd: The Wall

The Dark Side of The Moon - Live at Wembley`74

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

Classic Albums

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Roger Waters: Live at Rock in Rio Lisboa, 2006

Roger Waters: In The Flesh - Live

Live 8

Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here

Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon

When the Wind Blows

Conan

Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill - Live from Prague

Pink Floyd - The Wall (Immersion Box)

Roger Waters : The Wall - Live Netherlands

Roger Waters - The Dark Side of the Moon Live - Bogota 2007

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb