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George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer.
Waters claimed that, as the original band consisted of himself, Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, Gilmour could not reasonably use the name "Pink Floyd" now that it was without three of its founding members.
Roger Waters performing on his Dark Side Of The Moon Live tour at Equity Members Stadium, Perth, Australia in 2007.After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Waters staged a gigantic charity concert of The Wall in Berlin on July 21, 1990 to commemorate the end of the division between East and West Germany.
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Roger Waters who is best known for his career with Pink Floyd that lasted from 1965 through 1985 was their main songwriter, bass player, one of their chief singers and main sonic wizard.
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Waters would refer or allude to the loss of his father throughout his work, especially on The Final Cut album from 1983 (which is dedicated to his father) and the song named "When the Tigers Broke Free", first used in the movie version of The Wall.
Waters remarked shortly after Live 8 to the Associated Press that, while the experience of playing as Pink Floyd again was positive, the chances of a bona-fide reunion would be 'slight', considering his and Gilmour's continuing musical and ideological differences.
Waters has been married three times, and has three children: India, who is a model, and Harry, who is currently playing keyboards on his The Dark Side Of The Moon Live Tour and one son born in 1997.
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Waters would refer or allude to the loss of his father throughout his work, especially on The Final Cut album from 1983 (which is dedicated to his father) and the song named "When the Tigers Broke Free" from the movie version of The Wall.
Waters, who currently resides in the U.S., has said that the songs were written immediately after the start of the war, but he delayed releasing them until just before the 2004 Presidential election, hoping to derail George W. Bush's re-election.
Roger Waters has announced that he will be touring Europe Summer 2006 and North America in the fall for his The Dark Side Of The Moon Live Tour.
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Roger Waters is one of the popular artist of the music industry.
Although, Barrett wrote most of the songs, Waters also contributed as co-writer to produce three songs for their LP "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" which was released in the year of 1967, in September.
Roger Waters, in the year of 1992, released his third independent album "Amused To Death" which rocked the world.
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Roger Waters is best known for his twenty year career as the bass player, vocalist, and main songwriter for the legendary rock group Pink Floyd.
Roger Waters' resume is staggering, and he is one musical talent that everyone should have the opportunity to see live.
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Waters is a legendary figure in the world of music, and his solo work is perhaps a bit underappreciated by the public at large as compared to his work with Pink Floyd.
Waters’ attitude towards the world is prevalent in his music, and he always paid tribute to the people in his past who made him what he was and is as a person.
Waters got to work on these new duties in the early 1970’s and this decade was a time when Waters wrote and helped to arrange and produce some of the most historically successful albums in the history of music.
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George Roger Waters (born 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey near Dorking) is a British rock and roll musician and songwriter, best known as the former singer-songwriter and bass player for the band Pink Floyd.
Waters claimed that as the original band "Pink Floyd" consisted of himself, Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, that the band could not reasonably call itself by the same name now that it was without three of its founding members (Wright had left the band during the recording of The Wall).
Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, a soldier in the British Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), lost his life in the World War II Anzio Campaign (which is described in Waters' song "When The Tigers Broke Free").
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Roger Waters may have been the intellectual head of the Hard Rock Cafe's Hyde Park Calling festival Saturday night, with a meticulously thunderous set, but the Who were clearly the heart Sunday night with a...
Roger Waters, former leader and founder of legendary rock band Pink Floyd, made it into the annals of Israeli rock music history Thursday night and not just because of the controversial comments he'd made a day...
This Thursday's performance by Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters at the Latrun Monastery's Neve Shalom chickpea fields promises to be a landmark event in the annals of rock and roll in Israel.
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Waters is very concerned with topics of worldwide relevance: the threat of nuclear war, the degradation of our society thanks to television and the media, and the abuses of the capitalistic system, to name a few.
Waters is also notable for his coordination of sound clips with the lyrics of his albums, which often underscores his point quite strongly (note in Radio KAOS, for instance, the juxtaposition of a clip from the American Western Hopalong Cassidy with a recording of the American hostages in Iran).
Waters' remarkable talents were quite a shame for Pink Floyd, but had it not happened, we would most likely not have any of his brilliant solo material in the form that it exists.
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Roger Waters started his musical career when he was supposed to be studying architecture with Nick Mason and Richard Wright.
The latest release from Roger Waters is Amused To Death from 1992, but in 1999/2000 he went on a long tour of the US.
He has also been a member of the Roger Waters team on the tour of US 1999/2000 and the continuing world tour of 2002.
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Though "Dark Side of the Moon" was a greater commercial success, Waters found his niche with "The Wall." His beginning and ending of the regular set with material from that epic showed that he's largely content to remain atop those brilliant bricks.
Taking both Floyd and his solo albums in chunks, Waters had some difficulty hitting the high notes and matching the level of intense emotional strife he's nearly trademarked.
Waters lost none of the song's verve or impact with the change.
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Waters was philosophical: the knives had been bound to come out, and at least his work was “genuine”.
Waters had some help in the orchestration from Rick Wentworth, who conducts the recording.) And there are recognizably operatic voices: the baritone Bryn Terfel, the tenor Paul Groves and the soprano Ying Huang each sing several roles.
Waters' concept involves sound effects, a number of non-singing roles and staging inspired by the theatrical conceit of a three-ring circus.
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Roger Waters was a primary creative force in Pink Floyd from 1965 to 1983.
Waters sued, seeking an injunction to prevent the trio from touring as Pink Floyd without him, but he lost the case, and the Gilmour-led Pink Floyd went on to tour and recorded successfully without him.
Waters was not heard from for several years after that, although a collection of singles and album tracks, Flickering Flame: The Solo Years, Vol.
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In 1964, Roger Waters was a founding member of Pink Floyd, with then lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter Syd Barrett – as well as Richard Wright and Nick Mason.
Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, a soldier in the British Royal Fusiliers, lost his life in the Anzio Campaign of World War II (which is described in Waters' song "When the Tigers Broke Free").
Waters and Pink Floyd reunited for a performance at the Live 8 concert in London, on July 2, 2005.
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Roger was the creator and sonic architect of such undeniable classics as Dark Side Of The Moon (which spent nearly 15 years on the Billboard 200 album chart), The Wall (which has been certified 23x RIAA platinum), Animals, Wish You Were Here, and Final Cut.
Waters has been working on Ca Ira (pronounced sa-ira), an opera in English and French, a new rock album to be released in 2002 and Echoes the best of Pink Floyd, which was re-mastered by long time Pink Floyd producer James Guthrie.
Roger will be playing his Washburn RW300 on his critically acclaimed In The Flesh 2002 world tour and beyond.
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The man at the center of the ugly contest for control of this potent rock presence is songwriter Roger Waters, a lyricist *ex-traordinaire* whose spiky meditations on death, madness, and apocalypse were pivotal in leading an obscure British psychedelic group to the pinnacle of commercial preeminence in progressive rock.
Roger Waters mounted a massive tour in support of "Radio KAOS", his second solo LP, while Gilmour, Mason and Wright performed the "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" LP under the Pink Floyd flag.
Roger Water's most vociferous charge has always been that the intention on the part of Gilmour, Ezrin, et al., was never to create music that succeeded on its own terms, but instead, from the corporate estimation on down, to endeavor to fake the Pink Floyd Sound.
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Roger Waters, the driving force behind one of the most influential bands in modern rock is now on tour.
There's much talk that Roger Waters is ending each of his shows on the current tour by playing songs from The Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety.
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Roger Waters has confirmed in a newspaper article that the Cirque du Soleil will be collaborating on his Broadway production of 'The Wall'.
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Roger Waters Manager, Mark Fenwick, also contacted us to say that this is Roger's official statement "It's great to be asked to help Bob raise public awareness on the issues of third world debt and poverty.
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George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey near Dorking) is a British rock and roll musician and songwriter, best known as the former singer-songwriter and bass player for the band Pink Floyd.
After the downfall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Waters staged a gigantic charity concert of The Wall in Berlin on July 21, 1990 to commemorate the end of the division between East and West Germany.
In addition to the opera, Waters returned to the spotlight in 1999 with the reissue of a newly restored version of the film The Wall, as well as the announcement of his first concert trek since 1987, his sold-out summer "In The Flesh" tour, which featured state-of-the art multimedia light and quadraphonic sound.
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Waters commands respect for his art, and in return for helping him complete his vision, all involved get to bask in the glory of his creative muse.
It is my observation that Waters achieves this; his music is full of references to its past, more than enough to satisfy the aging Pink Floyd devotee, but it's also refreshed by his application of the current.
Presentation is Waters' vision; for him it's an integral part of the live experience, and it's that which ultimately satisfies and makes his perfectionism tolerable for those who work with him and a marvel for those who come to witness.
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Roger Waters, a founding member of the legendary Pink Floyd, is giving fans something that they never thought they’d be able to see again — Dark Side of the Moon performed live in concert.
Roger Waters got his start by playing rhythm and blues in 1965 with The Abdabs, where he befriended songwriter Syd Barrett.
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