Roger Waters

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Legal name: George Roger Waters

Wikipedia

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.

Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987. Waters's solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution.

In 1990, Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an attendance of 450,000. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Later that year, he reunited with Pink Floyd for the Live 8 global awareness event, the group's only appearance with Waters since 1981. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999. He performed The Dark Side of the Moon for his world tour of 2006–2008, and The Wall Live, his tour of 2010–2013, was the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist at the time.

Waters incorporates political themes in his work and is a prominent pro-Palestinian activist with regards to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He has called for the removal of the Israeli West Bank Barrier and supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. He has described Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. Some of his comments, such as his likening of Israel to Nazi Germany, and elements of his live shows, have been accused of being anti-Semitic. He has dismissed the accusations as a conflation of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.

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Discography

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1984The Pros and Cons of Hitch HikingRoger Waters3.4515
1987Radio K.A.O.S.Roger Waters3.6517
1992Amused to DeathRoger Waters4.2524
2005Ça IraRoger Waters33
2017Is This the Life We Really Want?Roger Waters3.258
2018Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s TaleRoger Waters1
2022The Lockdown SessionsRoger Waters3
2023The Dark Side of the Moon ReduxRoger Waters312

Album + Compilation

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2002Flickering Flame: The Solo Years, Volume IRoger Waters57
2011The CollectionRoger Waters41

Album + Soundtrack

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1970Music From The BodyRon Geesin & Roger Waters2.54

Album + Spokenword

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1983Innerview: Series 24, Show 08: Pink Floyd, The Final CutJim Ladd interviews Roger Waters1

Album + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1985Complete Hitch Hiking Performance (live, 1985-03-28: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY)Roger Waters4
1990The Wall: Live in BerlinRoger Waters4.6513
2000In the FleshRoger Waters511
2015Roger Waters: The WallRoger Waters59
2020Us + ThemRoger Waters4.57
2022KAOS FM 1987: Live Radio BroadcastRoger Waters1

Single

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1984The Pros and Cons of Hitch HikingRoger Waters1
1987Radio WavesRoger Waters41
1987The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)Roger Waters51
1990Another Brick in the Wall, Part TwoRoger Waters41
1992What God Wants, Part 1Roger Waters53
1992The Bravery of Being Out of RangeRoger Waters52
2004To Kill the Child / Leaving BeirutRoger Waters42
2007Hello (I Love You)Roger Waters42
2017Smell the RosesRoger Waters1
2017Déjà VuRoger Waters1
2022Comfortably Numb 2022Roger Waters52
2023Money (Lounge Version)Roger Waters & François Myrand1
2023TimeRoger Waters51
2023Speak To Me / BreatheRoger Waters1

Single + Live

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
2020Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)Roger Waters1
2020Time (Live in Amsterdam, June, 2018)Roger Waters1
2020One of These Days (live in Amsterdam, June, 2018)Roger Waters1
2020Déjà vu (live in Amsterdam, June, 2018)Roger Waters1
2020Wish You Were Here (live in Amsterdam, June, 2018)Roger Waters1
2020Money (live in Amsterdam, June, 2018)Roger Waters1
2020Eclipse (live in Amsterdam, June, 2018)Roger Waters1
2020Us & Them (live in Amsterdam, June, 2018)Roger Waters1

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