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Roger Waters
Roger Waters playing bass guitar
Waters at theHammersmith Apolloin 2020
Background information
Birth nameGeorge Roger Waters
Born(1943-09-06)6 September 1943(age 80)
Great Bookham,Surrey,England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • composer
  • record producer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • bass
  • guitar
Years active1964–present
Labels
Formerly of
Spouse(s)
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      (m.1969;div.1975)​
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      (m.1976;div.1992)​
    • Priscilla Phillips
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      (m.1993;div.2001)​
    • Laurie Durning
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      (m.2012;div.2015)​
    • Kamilah Chavis
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      (m.2021)​
MembersList
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Roger Waters' voice
from the BBC programmeDesert Island Discs,29 May 2011.[1]

George Roger Waters(born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock bandPink Floydas 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 albumsThe Dark Side of the Moon(1973),Wish You Were Here(1975),Animals(1977),The Wall(1979), andThe Final Cut(1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most 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 albumsThe Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking(1984),Radio K.A.O.S.(1987),Amused to Death(1992),andIs This the Life We Really Want?(2017). In 2005, he releasedÇa Ira,an opera translated fromÉtienneand Nadine Roda-Gils'librettoabout theFrench 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 USRock and Roll Hall of Famein 1996 and theUK Music Hall of Famein 2005. Later in 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd for theLive 8global awareness event, their only appearance with Waters since 1981. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999. He performedThe Dark Side of the Moonfor hisworld tour of 2006–2008,andThe Wall Live,his tour of 2010–2013, was thehighest-grossing tour by a solo artist at the time.

Waters incorporates political themes in his work and is a prominentsupporter of Palestinein theIsraeli–Palestinian conflict.He has called for the removal of theIsraeli West Bank Barrier,supports theBoycott, Divestment and Sanctionsmovement against Israel, and describes Israel's treatment of Palestiniansas apartheid.Some of his comments, such as his likening of Israel toNazi Germany,and elements of his live shows, drew accusations ofantisemitism,which Waters dismissed asa conflation of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.

Early years

Waters was born on 6 September 1943, the younger of two boys, to Mary (née Whyte; 1913–2009) and Eric Fletcher Waters (1914–1944), inGreat Bookham,Surrey.[2]His father, the son of acoal minerandLabour Partyactivist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and aCommunist Partymember.[3]

In the early years of theSecond World War,Waters' father was aconscientious objectorwho drove an ambulance duringthe Blitz.[3]He later changed his stance onpacifism,joined theTerritorial Armyand was commissioned into the 8th Battalion,Royal Fusiliersas a Second Lieutenant on 11 September 1943.[4]He was killed five months later on 18 February 1944 atAprilia,during theBattle of Anzio,when Roger was five months old.[5]He is commemorated in Aprilia and at theCassino War Cemetery.[6]On 18 February 2014, Waters unveiled a monument to his father and other war casualties in Aprilia, Italy and was made an honorary citizen of Anzio.[7]Following her husband's death, Mary Waters, also a teacher, moved with her two sons toCambridgeand raised them there.[8]Waters' earliest memory is of theV-J Daycelebrations.[9]

Waters attended Morley Memorial Junior School in Cambridge and then theCambridgeshire High School for Boys(nowHills Road Sixth Form College) withSyd Barrett.[10]The future Pink Floyd guitaristDavid Gilmourlived nearby onMill Roadand attendedthe Perse School.[11]At 15, Waters was chairman of the Cambridge YouthCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament(YCND),[12]having designed its publicity poster and participated in its organisation.[13]He was a keen sportsman and a highly regarded member of the high school's cricket and rugby teams.[14]Waters was unhappy at school, saying: "I hated every second of it, apart from games. The regime at school was a very oppressive one... The same kids who are susceptible to bullying by other kids are also susceptible to bullying by the teachers."[15]

Waters met future Pink Floyd membersNick MasonandRichard Wrightin London, at the Regent Street Polytechnic (later theUniversity of Westminster) School of Architecture. Waters enrolled there in 1962, after a series of aptitude tests indicated he was well suited to that field.[16]He had initially considered a career in mechanical engineering.[17]

1965–1985: Pink Floyd

Main article:Pink Floyd

Formation and Barrett-led period

A monochrome image of Roger Waters playing bass guitar. He has shoulder-length hair, black attire, and is standing in front of a microphone.
Waters performing with Pink Floyd atLeeds Universityin 1970

By September 1963, Waters and Mason had lost interest in their studies and moved into the lower flat of Stanhope Gardens, owned by Mike Leonard, a part-time tutor at the Regent Street Polytechnic.[18]Waters, Mason and Wright first played music together in late 1963, in a band formed by vocalist Keith Noble and bassist Clive Metcalfe.[19]They usually called themselves Sigma 6, but also used the name the Meggadeaths.[13]Waters played rhythm guitar, Mason played drums, Wright played any keyboard he could arrange to use, and Noble's sister Sheilagh provided occasional vocals.[20]In the early years the band performed during private functions and rehearsed in atearoomin the basement of Regent Street Polytechnic.[21]

When Metcalfe and Noble left to form their own group in September 1963, the remaining members asked Barrett and the guitaristBob Kloseto join.[22]Waters switched to the bass. By January 1964, the group became known as the Abdabs, or the Screaming Abdabs.[23]During late 1964, the band used the names Leonard's Lodgers, Spectrum Five, and eventually, the Tea Set.[24]In late 1965, the Tea Set had changed their name to the Pink Floyd Sound, later the Pink Floyd Blues Band and, by early 1966, Pink Floyd.[25]

By early 1966, Barrett was Pink Floyd's frontman, guitarist, and songwriter.[26]He wrote or co-wrote all but one track of their debut LPThe Piper at the Gates of Dawn,released in August 1967.[27]Waters contributed the song "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk"(his first sole writing credit) to the album.[28]By late 1967, Barrett's deteriorating mental health and increasingly erratic behaviour[29]rendered him "unable or unwilling"[30]to continue in his capacity as Pink Floyd's songwriter and lead guitarist.[27]In early March 1968, to discuss the band's future, Barrett, Mason, Waters, and Wright met with the band's managers,Peter JennerandAndrew King,of the rock music management company they had all founded,Blackhill Enterprises.Barrett agreed to leave Pink Floyd, and the band "agreed to Blackhill's entitlement in perpetuity" regarding "past activities".[31]Their new manager,Steve O'Rourke,made a formal announcement about the departure of Barrett and the arrival of Gilmour in April 1968.[32]

Waters-led period

A monochrome image of Pink Floyd performing on a concert stage. Each band member is illuminated from above by bright spotlights
A live performance ofThe Dark Side of the MoonatEarls Court Exhibition Centre,shortly after its release in 1973: (l–r) David Gilmour, Nick Mason,Dick Parry,Roger Waters

After Barrett's departure in March 1968, Waters began to chart Pink Floyd's artistic direction.[33]In 1970, he composed – in collaboration withRon Geesin–Music from The Body,a soundtrack forRoy Battersby's documentaryThe Body.[34][35]

Waters said he wanted to "drag [Pink Floyd] kicking and screaming back from the borders of space, from the whimsy that Syd was into, to my concerns, which were much more political and philosophical".[36]He became a dominant songwriter and the band's principal lyricist, sharing lead vocals with Gilmour and sometimes Wright. Throughout the late 1970s, he was the band's dominant creative figure until his departure in 1985.[33]He wrote most of the lyrics to the five Pink Floyd albums preceding his departure, starting withThe Dark Side of the Moon(1973) and ending withThe Final Cut(1983), while exerting progressively more creative control. Every Waters studio album fromThe Dark Side of the Moononwards has been aconcept album.[37]

With lyrics entirely by Waters,The Dark Side of the Moonis one of the most successful rock albums ever. It spent 736 consecutive weeks on theBillboard200chart—until July 1988—and sold over 40 million copies worldwide. As of 2005, it continued to sell over 8,000 copies a week.[38]According to Pink Floyd biographer Glenn Povey,Dark Side of the Moonis the world's second-bestselling album and the United States' 21st-bestselling album.[39]

In 2006, asked if he felt his goals forDark Sidehad been accomplished, Waters said:

When the record was finished I took a reel-to-reel copy home with me and I remember playing it for my wife then, and I remember her bursting into tears when it was finished. And I thought, "This has obviously struck a chord somewhere," and I was kinda pleased by that. You know when you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else. And at that point I thought to myself, "Wow, this is a pretty complete piece of work," and I had every confidence that people would respond to it.[40]

Waters' thematic ideas became the impetus for the concept albumsThe Dark Side of the Moon(1973),Wish You Were Here(1975),Animals(1977) andThe Wall(1979) — written largely by Waters — andThe Final Cut(1983), written entirely by him.[41]The cost of war and the loss of his father became a recurring theme, from "Corporal Clegg"(A Saucerful of Secrets,1968) and "Free Four"(Obscured by Clouds,1972) to "Us and Them"fromThe Dark Side of the Moon,"When the Tigers Broke Free",first used in the feature filmThe Wall(1982), later included with "The Fletcher Memorial Home"onThe Final Cut,an album dedicated to his father.[42]The theme and composition ofThe Wallwas influenced by his upbringing in an English society depleted of men after the Second World War.[43]

The Wall,written almost entirely by Waters, is largely based on his life story.[44]Having sold over 23 millionRIAA certified unitsin the US as of 2013, is tied for sixth-most certified album of all time in America.[45]Pink Floyd hiredBob Ezrinto co-produce the album and cartoonistGerald Scarfeto illustrate the sleeve art.[46]They embarked onThe Wall Tourof Los Angeles, New York, London, and Dortmund. The last Pink Floyd performance ofThe Wallwas on 17 June 1981, at Earls Court London, and this was Pink Floyd's last appearance with Waters until the band's brief reunion at 2 July 2005 Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, 24 years later.[47]

In March 1983, the last Pink Floyd album with Waters,The Final Cut,was released. It was subtitled: "A requiem for the post-war dream by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd".[48]Waters wrote all the album's lyrics and music. His lyrics were critical of theConservative Partygovernment of the day and mention Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcherby name.[49]At the time Gilmour did not have any new material, so he asked Waters to delay the recording until he could write some songs, but Waters refused.[50]According to Mason, after power struggles within the band and creative arguments about the album, Gilmour's name "disappeared" from the production credits, though he retained his pay.[51]Rolling Stonegave the album five stars, withKurt Loderdescribing it as "a superlative achievement" and "art rock's crowning masterpiece".[52]Loder viewed the work as "essentially a Roger Waters solo album".[53]

Departure and legal battles

Amidst creative differences, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the band regarding their continued use of the name and material.[54]In December 1985, Waters issued a statement to EMI and CBS invoking the "Leaving Member" clause in his contract. In October 1986, he initiatedHigh Courtproceedings to formally dissolve the Pink Floyd partnership. In his submission to the High Court he called Pink Floyd a "spent force creatively".[55]Gilmour and Mason opposed the application and announced their intention to continue as Pink Floyd. Waters said he had been forced to resign like Barrett had been years earlier, and decided to leave Pink Floyd based on legal considerations, saying: "If I hadn't, the financial repercussions would have wiped me out completely."[56]

Waters did not want the band to use the name Pink Floyd without him. He said later: "I would be distressed ifPaul McCartneyandRingo Starrmade records and went on the road calling themselvesthe Beatles.IfJohn Lennon's not in it, it's sacrilegious... To continue with Gilmour and Mason, getting in a whole bunch of other people to write the material, seems to me an insult to the work that came before. "[57]In December 1987, Waters and Pink Floyd reached an agreement.[54]Waters was released from his contractual obligation with O'Rourke, and he retained the copyrights to theWallconcept and the inflatableAnimalspig.[58]Pink Floyd released three studio albums without him:A Momentary Lapse of Reason(1987),The Division Bell(1994) andThe Endless River(2014).[59]According to a 1999 interview with Gilmour, Waters declined an invitation to performThe Dark Side of the Moonwith Pink Floyd atEarls Court,London.[57]

In 2005, Waters said the period of his departure had been a "bad, negative time", and that he regretted his part in the negativity: "Why should I have imposed my feeling about the work and what it was worth on the others if they didn't feel the same? I was wrong in attempting to do that."[60]In 2013, Waters said he regretted the lawsuit and had failed to appreciate that the Pink Floyd name had commercial value independent of the band members.[61]

1984–present: solo career

1984–1989:The Pros and Cons of Hitch HikingandRadio K.A.O.S.

A concert stage in front of a wall with 2 levels. Five men stand on a balcony, including Roger Waters, who is saluting with his arm and is lit by a spotlight. On the lower level is a drum kit and a man playing guitar.
The Wall – Live in Berlin,21 July 1990

In 1984, Waters released his first solo album,The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking,which dealt with Waters's feelings about monogamy and family life versus "the call of the wild".[62]The protagonist, Reg, finally chooses love and matrimony over promiscuity. The album featured guitaristEric Clapton,jazz saxophonistDavid Sanborn,and artwork by Gerald Scarfe.[62]Kurt Loder describedThe Pros And Cons of Hitch Hikingas a "strangely static, faintly hideous record".[63]Rolling Stonerated the album a "rock bottom one star".[62]Years later, Mike DeGagne ofAllMusicpraised its "ingenious symbolism" and "brilliant use of stream of consciousness within a subconscious realm", rating it four out of five.[64]

Waters toured the album with Clapton, a new band, and new material; the shows included a selection of Pink Floyd songs. Waters débuted his tour in Stockholm on 16 June 1984. The tour drew poor ticket sales and some performances at larger venues were cancelled;[65]Waters estimated that he lost £400,000 on the tour.[66]In March 1985, Waters went to North America to play smaller venues with the Pros and Cons Plus Some Old Pink Floyd Stuff—North America Tour 1985.The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hikinghas been certified Gold by the RIAA.[67]

In 1986, Waters contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated filmWhen the Wind Blows,based on theRaymond Briggsbook of the same name.His backing band featuringPaul Carrackwas credited asThe Bleeding Heart Band.[68]In 1987, Waters releasedRadio K.A.O.S.,a concept album based on a mute man named Billy from an impoverished Welsh mining town who has the ability to physically tune into radio waves in his head. Billy learns to communicate with a radio DJ, and eventually to control the world's computers. Angry at the state of the world in which he lives, he simulates a nuclear attack. Waters followed the release with a supporting tour also in 1987.[69]

1989–1999:The Wall – Live in BerlinandAmused to Death

In November 1989, theBerlin Wallfell, and in July 1990 Waters staged one of the largest and most elaborate rock concerts in history,[70]The Wall – Live in Berlin,on the vacant terrain betweenPotsdamer Platzand theBrandenburg Gate.The show reported an attendance of 200,000, though some estimates are as much as twice that, with approximately one billion television viewers.[71]Leonard Cheshireasked Waters to perform the concert to raise funds for charity. Waters's musicians includedJoni Mitchell,Van Morrison,Cyndi Lauper,Bryan Adams,Scorpions,andSinéad O'Connor.Waters also used an East German symphony orchestra and choir, a Soviet marching band, and a pair of helicopters from the US7th Airborne Command and Control Squadron.Designed by Mark Fisher, the wall was 25 metres tall and 170 metres long and was built across the set, and Scarfe's inflatable puppets were recreated on an enlarged scale. Many rock icons received invitations to the show, though Gilmour, Mason, and Wright did not.[72]Waters released a double album of the performance, which has been certified platinum by the RIAA.[67]

In 1990, Waters hired managerMark Fenwickand left EMI for a worldwide deal with Columbia. He released his third studio album,Amused to Death,in 1992. The record was influenced heavily by the events of theTiananmen Square protests of 1989and theGulf War,and a critique of the notion of war becoming the subject of entertainment, particularly on television. The title was derived from the bookAmusing Ourselves to DeathbyNeil Postman.Patrick Leonard,who worked onA Momentary Lapse of Reason,co-produced the album.Jeff Beckplayed lead guitar on many of the album's tracks, which were recorded with a cast of musicians at ten different recording studios.[73]It is Waters's most critically acclaimed solo recording, garnering comparison to his work with Pink Floyd.[74]Waters described the record as a "stunning piece of work", ranking it alongsideDark Side of the MoonandThe Wallas one of the best of his career.[75]The song "What God Wants,Pt. 1 "reached number 35 in the UK in September 1992 and number 5 onBillboard'sMainstream Rock Trackschart in the US.[76]Amused to Deathwas certified Silver by theBritish Phonographic Industry.[77]Sales ofAmused to Deathtopped out at around one million and there was no tour in support of the album. Waters would first perform material from it seven years later during hisIn the Flesh tour.[78]In 1996, Waters was inducted into the US and UKRock and Roll Halls of Fameas a member of Pink Floyd.[79]

1999–2004: In the Flesh tour andWallBroadway production

In 1999, after a 12-year hiatus from touring and a seven-year absence from the music industry, Waters embarked on the In the Flesh tour, performing both solo and Pink Floyd material. The tour was a financial success in the US; though Waters had booked mostly smaller venues, tickets sold so well that many of the concerts were upgraded to larger ones.[80]The tour eventually stretched across the world and spanned three years. A concert film was released on CD and DVD,In the Flesh – Live.During the tour, Waters played two new songs "Flickering Flame" and "Each Small Candle" as the final encore to many of the shows. In June 2002, he completed the tour with a performance in front of 70,000 people at theGlastonbury Festival of Performing Arts,playing 15 Pink Floyd songs and five songs from his solo catalogue.[80]

Miramaxannounced in 2004 that a production ofThe Wallwas to appear on Broadway with Waters playing a prominent role in the creative direction. Reports stated that the musical contained not only the original tracks fromThe Wall,but also songs fromDark Side of the Moon,Wish You Were Hereand other Pink Floyd albums, as well as new material.[81]On the night of 1 May 2004, recorded extracts from the opera, including itsoverture,were played on the occasion of theWelcome Europecelebrations in the accession country ofMalta.Gert Hof mixed recorded excerpts from the opera into a continuous piece of music which was played as an accompaniment to a large light and fireworks display overGrand HarbourinValletta.[82]In July 2004, Waters released two new tracks online: "To Kill the Child", inspired by the2003 invasion of Iraq,and "Leaving Beirut", an anti-war song inspired by his travels in the Middle East as a teenager.[83]

2005: Pink Floyd reunion andÇa Ira

A concert stage lit by purple lighting. Four men are performing on the stage as a crowd stands in front of it. Behind the men are video screens displaying images of vinyl records.
Waters (far right) performing with Pink Floyd at Live 8, 2 July 2005
Roger Waters, dressed in black, playing a bass guitar and speaking into a microphone. Behind him are several red vertical video panels.
Waters playing "In the Flesh" on his Dark Side of the Moon Tour at Viking Stadion, Stavanger, 26 June 2006

In July 2005, Waters reunited with Mason, Wright, and Gilmour for their final performance together at the 2005Live 8concert in London's Hyde Park, Pink Floyd's only appearance with Waters since their final performance ofThe Wallat Earls Court London 24 years earlier.[84]They played a 23-minute set consisting of "Speak to Me/Breathe"/"Breathe (Reprise)","Money","Wish You Were Here",and"Comfortably Numb".Waters told theAssociated Pressthat while the experience of playing with 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.[85]Though Waters had differing ideas about which songs they should play, he "agreed to roll over for one night only".[86]In November 2005, Pink Floyd were inducted into theUK Music Hall of FamebyPete Townshendofthe Who.[87]

In September 2005, Waters releasedÇa Ira(pronounced[saiˈʁa],French for "it will be fine"; Waters added the subtitle, "There is Hope" ), an opera in three acts translated from the lateÉtienne Roda-Gil's French libretto based on the historical subject of theFrench Revolution.[88]Ça Irawas released as a double CD album, featuring baritoneBryn Terfel,sopranoYing Huangand tenorPaul Groves.[89]Set during the early French Revolution, the original libretto was co-written in French by Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine Delahaye. Waters had begun rewriting the libretto in English in 1989,[90]and said about the composition: "I've always been a big fan of Beethoven's choral music,BerliozandBorodin... This is unashamedly romantic and resides in that early 19th-century tradition, because that's where my tastes lie in classical and choral music. "[91]Waters appeared on television to discuss the opera, but the interviews often focused on his relationship with Pink Floyd, something Waters would "take in stride", a sign Pink Floyd biographerMark Blakebelieves is "a testament to his mellower old age or twenty years of dedicated psychotherapy".[91]Ça Irareached number 5 on theBillboardClassical Music Chart in the United States.[92]

2006–2009: The Dark Side of the Moon Live

In June 2006, Waters began the two-yearDark Side of the Moon Liveworld tour. The first half of the show featured both Pink Floyd songs and Waters's solo material; the second included a complete performance ofThe Dark Side of the Moon,the first time in more than three decades that Waters had performed it. The shows ended with an encore from the third side ofThe Wall.The elaborate staging, by the concert lighting designerMarc Brickman,included laser lights, fog machines, pyrotechnics, psychedelic projections, and inflatable floating puppets (Spaceman and Pig) controlled by a "handler" dressed as a butcher, and a full 360-degreequadraphonic soundsystem. Mason joined Waters for theDark Side of the Moonset and the encores on some 2006 performances.[93]

In March 2007, the Waters song "Hello (I Love You)"featured in the science fiction filmThe Last Mimzy.Waters released it as a single, on CD and via download, and described it as "a song that captures the themes of the movie, the clash between humanity's best and worst instincts, and how a child's innocence can win the day".[94]He performed at California'sCoachella Festivalin April 2008 and was to be among the headlining artists atLive Earth 2008in Mumbai, India, in December 2008,[95]but the concert was cancelled following the26 November terrorist attacksin Mumbai.[96]In April 2008, Waters discussed a possible new album with the tentative nameHeartland.[97]

2010s: The Wall Live andIs This the Life We Really Want?

Waters on stage wearing sunglasses and a black leather coat. He is holding a microphone up to his mouth.
Waters inBarcelonaduringThe Wall Livein 2011

In June 2010, Waters released a cover of "We Shall Overcome",a protest song rewritten and arranged byGuy CarawanandPete Seeger.He performed with Gilmour at the Hoping Foundation Benefit Evening in July 2010.[98]The set comprised a cover of thePhil Spectorsong "To Know Him Is to Love Him",which was played in early Pink Floyd soundchecks, followed by" Wish You Were Here "," Comfortably Numb ", and"Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)".[99]

In September 2010, Waters began theWall Livetour, an updated version of the original Pink Floyd tour, featuring a complete performance ofThe Wall.[100]At theO2 Arenain London on 12 May 2011, Gilmour and Mason again performed with Waters on "Comfortably Numb", and "Outside the Wall".[101]For the first half of 2012, the tour topped worldwide concert ticket sales, having sold more than 1.4 million tickets globally.[102]By 2013, the Wall Live had become thehighest-grossing tour by a solo artist.[103]Waters performed atthe Concert for Sandy ReliefatMadison Square Gardenon 12 December 2012.[104]On 24 July 2015, he headlined theNewport Folk FestivalinNewport, Rhode Island,accompanied by the bandMy Morning Jacketand two singers from the groupLucius.[105]Waters performed at theDesert Tripfestival in October 2016.[106]

Waters performed a series of concerts inMexico Cityin October 2016

Waters released his first solo album in nearly 25 years,Is This the Life We Really Want?,on 2 June 2017.[107]It was produced by theRadioheadproducerNigel Godrich.Godrich was a fan of Waters' work with Pink Floyd, but was critical of his solo work and encouraged him to make a concise album showcasing his lyrics.[108][109]Waters returned to North America in 2017 with theUs + Them Tour,performing Pink Floyd and solo material.[110]

On 26 October 2018,Sony Classical Masterworksreleased an adaptation ofIgor Stravinsky'stheatrical workThe Soldier's Talenarrated by Waters.[111]On 18 April 2019, Waters joinedNick Mason's Saucerful of Secretson stage at theBeacon Theatreto sing "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".[112]Waters was one of the ten highest-grossing concert acts of the decade.[113]

2020s: This is Not a Drill, Pink Floyd disputes andThe Dark Side of the Moon Redux

In January 2020, Waters announced a new arena tour,This Is Not a Drill,that would tour North America and finish one month before the2020 presidential election.[114]The tour was rescheduled to 2022 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[115][116]The concerts were held from July to October 2022,[117]and expanded with dates in Europe from March to June 2023.[118]In 2021, Waters said he had begun writing a memoir during the pandemic.[119]In December 2022, he released an EP,The Lockdown Sessions,comprising six new versions of songs from his solo career and Pink Floyd.[120]

Waters continued to quarrel with Gilmour.[121]In 2021, Waters wrote publicly of their disputes over Pink Floyd reissues and credits, accusing Gilmour of distorting the truth, and complained that Gilmour would not allow him to use Pink Floyd's website and social media channels.[119]Rolling Stonenoted that Waters and Gilmour had "hit yet another low point in their relationship".[119]

Early in 2023, Waters gave an interview in which he criticised Pink Floyd's 2022 track "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!",which was released in support of Ukraine.[122]Shortly afterwards,Polly Samson,the wife of Gilmour and a lyricist for Pink Floyd, wrote on Twitter that Waters was antisemitic and "a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac". Gilmour responded to the tweet on Twitter: "Every word demonstrably true."[123]Waters released a statement on Twitter saying he was aware of the "incendiary and wildly inaccurate" comments and was "taking advice as to his position".[123]

For the 50th anniversary ofThe Dark Side of the Moon,Waters recorded a new version,The Dark Side of the Moon Redux,released on 6 October 2023.[124]It features spoken-word sections and no guitar solos, to "bring out the heart and soul of the album musically and spiritually".[125][126]In a press release, Waters wrote: "Dave, Rick, Nick, and I were so young when we made [the original], and when you look at the world around us, clearly the message hasn't stuck. That's why I started to consider what the wisdom of an 80 year old could bring to a reimagined version."[127]In October, Waters held two concerts at theLondon Palladium,where he performedThe Dark Side of the Moon Redux,spoke on topics such asJulian Assangeand read from his unpublished memoir.[128]

Politics

Israeli–Palestinian conflict and accusations of antisemitism

Waters is a vocal supporter ofPalestinein theIsraeli–Palestinian conflict.[129]He is a member[130]ofBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions(BDS), a campaign for an internationalboycott of Israel.[131]Waters first saw theIsraeli West Bank barrierin 2006, at the request of Palestinian supporters, when he was scheduled to perform inTel Aviv.He subsequently moved a Tel Aviv concert toNeve Shalomand called for the barrier's removal: "The wall is an appalling edifice to behold. It is policed by young Israeli soldiers who treated me, a casual observer from another world, with disdainful aggression."[132][133]He has repeatedly described Israel's treatment of Palestiniansas apartheid.[134]In 2023, he was one of the principal signers of an open letter called Artists Against Apartheid.[135][136]

Waters has criticised numerous other artists who have performed in Israel. In 2015, Waters published an open letter inSaloncriticising the rock bandBon Jovifor performing in Tel Aviv.[137]In 2017, he urgedRadioheadto cancel a concert there, signing a letter with 50 others,[131]and was co-signatory on an open letter askingNick Caveto cancel his.[138][139]Neither Radiohead nor Cave cancelled their concerts.[140][141][142]Waters narrated the 2016 documentaryThe Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United Statesabout the methods used by Israel to shape American public opinion.[143][144]

In 2013, RabbiAbraham Cooper,the associate dean of the Jewish human rights organisation theSimon Wiesenthal Center,accused Waters of antisemitism for including a giant pig balloon bearing aStar of Davidin his concerts.[145][146]Waters responded that it was one of several religious and political symbols in the show and not an attempt to single out Judaism as an evil force.[129]The same year, Waters compared the Israeli treatment of Palestinians toNazi Germany,saying: "The parallels with what went on in the 1930s in Germany are so crushingly obvious."[129]He said the reason why few celebrities had joined the BDS movement in the United States was because "the Jewish lobby is extraordinary powerful here and particularly in the industry that I work in, the music industry".[147][148]

Following the remarks, theAnti-Defamation Leaguecharged that Waters' remarks were antisemitic.[148]The American rabbiShmuley Boteachresponded to Waters in theNew York Observer:"That you would have the audacity to compare Jews to monsters who murdered them shows you have no decency, you have no heart, you have no soul."[129]Speaking in New York afterwards, Waters said supporters of Israeloften attack critics as antisemiticas a "diversionary tactic" by conflatinganti-Zionismwith antisemitism.[129]In a 2017 interview withOmar Barghouti,Waters again likened Israel's public diplomacy to Nazi Germany: "The thing about propaganda – again, it's not hard to go back toGoebbelsor the 1930s. You understand the tactic is to tell the big lie as often as possible over and over and over and over again. And people believe it. "[149][150]In 2017, the writerIan Halperinproduced a documentary,Wish You Weren't Here,accusing Waters of antisemitism and "erecting the very walls that hinder peace in the region and fuel hatred".[151]

In 2020,Major League Baseballstopped advertising Waters' This Is Not a Drill concerts after receiving criticism from Jewish advocacy groups.[152]Later that year, Waters said the American Jewish businessman andRepublican PartydonorSheldon Adelsonwas a "puppet master" controlling American politics. He said that Adelson believed that "only Jewish people are completely human... I'm not saying Jewish people believe this. I am saying that he does, and he is pulling the strings."[153]In the same interview, Waters said that themurder of George Floydwas carried out with a technique developed by theIsraeli Defence Forces.He said the Americans had studied the technique to learn "how to murder the blacks because they have seen how efficient the Israelis have been at murdering Palestinians in the occupied territories by using those techniques... The Israelis are proud of it."[153]In January 2024, theBMGmusic company cancelled a publishing agreement with Waters over his comments on Israel, Ukraine and the United States.[154]

Fascist imagery and German police investigation

On 25 February 2023, the German city of Frankfurt cancelled one of Waters' scheduled shows, calling him one of the "most widely known antisemites" and citing his support for BDS, the imagery at his shows and his talks with the militant groupHamas.The move was supported by the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Frankfurt Jewish Community.[155][134]Waters hired a German law firm to challenge the concert cancellation, and released a statement denying the accusations and stating that the cancellation could have "serious, far-reaching consequences for artists and activists all over the world".[134]A German court overturned the cancellation, saying the concert should be viewed as a work of art and that it "did not glorify or relativise the crimes of the Nazis or identify with Nazi racist ideology".[156]

That May, German police opened a criminal investigation into Waters and the Nazi-style uniform he wore during his Berlin performance for possibleincitement.[157]Nazi symbolismis banned in Germany, with exemptions for educational and artistic purposes.[158]Waters has long used similar uniforms for performances ofThe Wall,in which the protagonist hallucinates himself as a fascist dictator.[158]Israel's Foreign Ministrycriticised Waters for his performance.[159]TheUS Department of Statecalled it "deeply offensive to Jewish people" and accused Waters of having a record of using antisemitic tropes.[160]In the UK, the secretary of state,Michael Gove,and theLabourleader,Keir Starmer,issued statements condemning him.[161]

Waters said the use of fascist imagery was a statement in "opposition to fascism, injustice and bigotry".[162]He pointed out that he had been using Nazi-inspired uniforms in performances since 1980, but they had only recently attracted controversy.[163]Waters felt the criticism was disingenuous and politically motivated,[162]and that he had been attacked at the behest of the "Israeli lobby" in Germany.[164]In an interview withDouble Down News,Waters said the accusations of antisemitism were a "vicious lie" and "deeply insulting", and that he was a victim ofcancel culture.He said that the Israeli government was attempting to discredit him as they saw him as an "existential threat to their settler-colonialist, racist, apartheid regime".[163]

In May 2023, the Labour MPChristian Wakefordcriticised Waters' shows in UK parliament. Waters responded at a concert in London the following month, calling Wakeford a "fucking moron" and a "cripple", whichVarietysaid "drew a sharp intake of breath" from some in attendance. Waters also said he was "pissed off with thisIsraeli lobbybullshit "and accused critics of" making up stuff because you've been told to by your masters from the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv ".[165]

2023 documentary alleging antisemitism

In September 2023, a documentary alleging antisemitism by Waters,The Dark Side of Roger Waters,was released by the British groupCampaign Against Antisemitism.[166]It includes accounts from Waters' past collaborators, including theWallproducerBob Ezrin,who say Waters made offensive remarks about Jewish people.[166]In a separate statement, Ezrin said he did not object to Waters' challenging Israeli policy, but that "if your language directly or by implication promotes the eradication of the world's only Jewish state, then that is absolutely antisemitism in my book".[166]Waters responded in a statement that he was "frequently mouthy and prone to irreverence" but not antisemitic, and that the film misrepresented his views.[166]

According to the documentary, in a 2010 email to his crew, Waters described his idea for the inflatable pig to be floated above his gigs, which would have the words "dirtykyke","follow the money "and" Scum "written on it.[167]In response, Waters said that the "offensive words I referenced... were my brainstorming ideas on how to make the evils and horrors of fascism and extremism apparent", and "not the manifestation of any underlying bigotry as the film suggests".[167]

Hotel cancellations

Waters said in an interview withGlenn Greenwaldthat the2023 Hamas attack on Israelmay have been afalse flag operationand that "resistance to the Israeli occupation" is legally and morally justifiable.[168]In November 2023, after the interview with Greenwald, theFaena Hoteland theAlvear Palace HotelinBuenos Airescancelled Waters reservations without giving a reason.[169]Several Argentine deputies repudiated Waters' visit to their country.[170][171]

The Hyatt Centric and the Regency Hotels inMontevideodenied Waters accommodation based on the right of admission.[172]Felipe Schipani,aColorado PartyNational Representative,asked theMunicipality of Montevideoto withdraw the "illustrious visitor to Montevideo" title given to Waters in 2018.[173]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

A week before theRussian invasion of Ukraine,Waters told anRTinterviewer that rumours of Russia launching an invasion were "bullshit" andanti-Russianpropaganda.[174]After the invasion, Waters said that US PresidentJoe Bidenwas "fuelling the fire in the Ukraine... that is a huge crime", and questioned why the United States was not encouraging Ukraine "to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war". Responding to accusations that he was placing the responsibility to negotiate on the country that was invaded, Waters said that Russia wasresponding to provocations from NATO:"This war is basically about the action and reaction ofNATOpushing right up to the Russian border – which they promised they wouldn't do when Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the U.S.S.R. from the whole of Eastern Europe. "[175][176]In another interview, Waters said the invasion of Ukraine was "probably the most provoked invasion ever" and that he refused to "see Russia from the current Russo-phobic perspective".[177]

On 5 September 2022, the day afterOlena Zelenska,theFirst Lady of Ukraine,appeared on the BBC, Waters published an open letter to her. He accused Ukrainian "extreme nationalists" of starting the war and made no mention of Russia's responsibility for the invasion.[178]He argued that the West should not provide Ukraine with weapons, and that Western governments were prolonging the war with their support. Waters urged her husband to end the war based on theMinsk agreements.[179]Waters's concerts in Poland were cancelled following local outrage over his comments.[178]In February 2023, at the Russian government's request, Waters gave a speech to theUnited Nations Security Council.He condemned the invasion of Ukraine as illegal, but said it was "not unprovoked" and that he also "condemned the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms.... The only sensible course of action today is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine".[177][180]The speech drew criticism from American, Ukrainian and Albanian diplomats, and praise from Russia's deputy UN ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy.[177]

Other views

In this scene, Waters punches the wall, while the projections simulate the wall crumbling as a result, revealing a bright sunset behind
Waters performing "Comfortably Numb" duringThe Wall Livein Kansas City, 30 October 2010

After the2004 Indian Ocean earthquakeand subsequenttsunamidisaster, Waters performed "Wish You Were Here" with Eric Clapton during a benefit concert on the American networkNBC.[181]

He criticised theHunting Act of 2004and supported theCountryside Alliance,but explained he was defending the right to hunt rather than supporting the activity himself. Waters explained that whether he supported hunting or not, it was important to defend it as a right.[83][182]

In 2007, Waters became a spokesman forMillennium Promise,a non-profit organisation fighting poverty andmalaria.[183]That July, he participated in the American leg of theLive Earthconcert, aimed at raising awareness about global climate change.[184]In 2015, Waters said thatsocialismwas "a good thing", and called forsocialised healthcarein the United States.[185]

Waters is supportive ofveterans,which he partly attributes to the death of his father in World War II. He allocates a block of tickets for veterans at his shows. For a few years he performed with a group of wounded veterans that was arranged through the United States National Military Medical Center.[186]In 2012, he led a benefit for United States military veterans, Stand Up for Heroes, and invited a group of combat-wounded veterans,MusiCorps,to perform with him.[187]

Waters performing inGdańskin August 2018 during theUs + Them Tour,criticising thePolish government'streatmentof the courts and media.

Waters opposedBrexit(the UK leaving theEuropean Union). Following theJune 2016 referendum,which resulted in leaving the EU, he said: "I thought we were better than that. I was wrong."[188]He criticised US PresidentDonald Trumpand his policies.[189]In 2017, Waters condemned Trump's plan to build awall separating the US and Mexico,drawing parallels toThe Wall.[190]

After the April 2018Douma chemical attackcarried out by the Syrian government, Waters called civil defence volunteers, theWhite Helmets,"a fake organisation that exists only to create propaganda for thejihadistsand terrorists "trying to incite the West to" start dropping bombs on people in Syria ".[191][192][193][194]

In 2018, Waters included the Brazilian far-right presidential candidateJair Bolsonaroin a list of "neo-fascists" displayed on a big screen at his concert inSão Paulowhich drew mixed responses from the crowd.[195]In a concert inRio de Janeirothat October, he acknowledged the murdered Brazilian councilwomanMarielle Francoand brought her daughter, sister and widow on stage.[196]In an interview with the online music magazineBrooklynVegan,he said he tried to visit the progressive politicianLula da Silvawhile he was in prison on corruption charges, which he called false saying that "the only reason Lula is in prison is because he would have won the election".[197]

In 2019, Waters spoke at a rally outside London'sHome Officecalling for the release of theWikiLeaksfounderJulian Assange,and dedicated a performance of "Wish You Were Here" to him.[198]The following year, he spoke at a rally in support of Assange outside parliament in London.[199]He showed his support for the2019–2022 Chilean proteststhrough a video from POUSTA.[200]In an interview with communist deputyCamila Vallejo,he condemned the then presidentSebastian Piñera,calling him a "rat" and he also indicated that the2022 Chilean national plebisciteis "extraordinarily revolutionary".[201]

Waters supportsSteven Donziger,an American lawyer embroiled in environmental litigation againstChevron corporation,and has funded some of Donziger's legal fees.[202]He endorsed theLabour PartyleaderJeremy Corbynin the2019 UK general election,describing him as a "beacon of hope".[203]

During his 2022This Is Not a Drillshows, every US president fromRonald Reaganto Donald Trump was labelled awar criminaland a message was displayed that Joe Biden was "just getting started".[204]In an interview withMichael Smerconish,who stated that "The Chinese are too busy encirclingTaiwanas we speak, "Waters responded that China was not encircling Taiwan and that" Taiwan is part of China. And that's been absolutely accepted by the whole of the international community since 1948. "[175]

Artistry

Roger Waters playing bass and singing
Waters in Barcelona during The Wall Live, 5 April 2011

Waters's primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar. However, he said in 1992 that he was "never a bass player" and was "not interested in playing instruments and I never have been".[205]Gilmour said that Waters used a limited, simple style and had not been interested in improving, and that Gilmour had played many of the bass parts on Pink Floyd records.[205]According to Mason in 2018, Waters feels that "everything should be judged on the writing rather than the playing".[121]

Waters briefly played aHöfnerbass, but replaced it with aRickenbacker RM-1999/4001S.In 1970, it was stolen along with the rest of Pink Floyd's equipment in New Orleans.[23]He began usingFender Precision Bassesin 1968, originally alongside the Rickenbacker 4001, and then exclusively after the Rickenbacker was lost in 1970. First seen at a concert in Hyde Park, London, in July 1970, the black P-Bass was rarely used until April 1972, when it became his main stage guitar. On 2 October 2010, it became the basis for a Fender Artist Signature model.[206]Waters endorsesRotosoundJazz Bass 77 flat-wound strings.[207]He has usedSelmer,WEM,Hiwatt,andAshdownamplifiers but usedAmpegfor later tours. He has employeddelay,tremolo,chorus,stereo panningandphasereffects in his bass playing.[208]

Waters experimented with theEMS Synthi AandVCS 3synthesisers on Pink Floyd pieces such as "On the Run",[209]"Welcome to the Machine",[210]and "In the Flesh?"[211]He played electric and acoustic guitar on Pink Floyd tracks using Fender, Martin,Ovationand Washburn guitars.[208]He played electric guitar on the Pink Floyd song "Sheep",fromAnimals,[212]and acoustic guitar on several Pink Floyd recordings, such as"Pigs on the Wing 1 & 2",also fromAnimals,[213]"Southampton Dock"fromThe Final Cut,[214]and on "Mother"fromThe Wall.[215]A Binson Echorec 2delay effectwas used on his bass lead track "One of These Days".[216]Waters plays trumpet during concert performances of "Outside the Wall".[217]

Personal life

In 1969, Waters married his childhood sweetheartJudith Trim,a school teacher and potter. She was featured on the gatefold sleeve of the original release of the Pink Floyd albumUmmagumma,but excised from CD reissues.[218]They had no children and divorced in 1975.[219]Trim died in 2001.[220]

In 1976, Waters marriedCarolyne Christie,the niece of thethird Marquess of Zetland.[219]They had a son,Harry Waters,a musician who has played keyboards with his father's touring band since 2002, and a daughter, India Waters, who has worked as a model.[221]Christie and Waters divorced in 1992.[219]In 1993, Waters married Priscilla Phillips. They had a son, Jack Fletcher. Their marriage ended in 2001.[222]

In 2004, Waters became engaged to the actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning.[223]They married on 14 January 2012[224]and filed for divorce in September 2015.[225]Waters married his fifth wife, Kamilah Chavis, in October 2021.[226]Waters has homes inLong IslandandHampshire.[227]He is anatheist.[228][229]

Discography

Main article:Roger Waters discography
See also:Pink Floyd discography
Solo albums
Other work

Tours

See also:Pink Floyd live performances

Live band members

See also:The Bleeding Heart Band
Main article:List of Roger Waters band members

Current members

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Further reading

  • Hiatt, Brian (September 2010). "Back to The Wall".Rolling Stone.Vol. 1114. pp. 50–57.
  • Rose, Phil (2015).Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums.Rowman & Littlefield.ISBN978-1-61147-761-0.
  • Scarfe, Gerald (2010).The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall(1st US paperback ed.). Da Capo Press.ISBN978-0-306-81997-1.
  • Simmons, Sylvie (December 1999). "Pink Floyd: The Making ofThe Wall".Mojo.Vol. 73. pp. 76–95.

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