Roger Waters
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Birth name | George Roger Waters |
Born | Great Bookham, England | 6 September 1943
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Years active | 1964–present |
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Website | rogerwaters |
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,
Waters incorporates political themes in his work and is a prominent supporter of Palestine in the
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), in
In the early years of the
Waters attended Morley Memorial Junior School in Cambridge and then the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (now Hills Road Sixth Form College) with Syd Barrett.[10] The future Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour lived nearby on Mill Road and attended the Perse School.[11] At 15, Waters was chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign 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 members Nick Mason and Richard Wright in London, at the Regent Street Polytechnic (later the University 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
Formation and Barrett-led period
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.
When Metcalfe and Noble left to form their own group in September 1963, the remaining members asked Barrett and the guitarist Bob Klose to 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.
Waters-led period
After Barrett's departure in March 1968, Waters began to chart Pink Floyd's artistic direction.[33] In 1970, he composed – in collaboration with Ron Geesin – Music from The Body, a soundtrack for Roy Battersby's documentary The 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 with The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and ending with The Final Cut (1983), while exerting progressively more creative control. Every Waters studio album from The Dark Side of the Moon onwards has been a concept album.[37]
With lyrics entirely by Waters, The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most successful rock albums ever. It spent 736 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 chart—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 Moon is the world's second-bestselling album and the United States' 21st-bestselling album.[39]
In 2006, asked if he felt his goals for Dark Side had 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 albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979) — written largely by Waters — and The 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" from The Dark Side of the Moon, "When the Tigers Broke Free", first used in the feature film The Wall (1982), later included with "The Fletcher Memorial Home" on The Final Cut, an album dedicated to his father.[42] The theme and composition of The Wall was 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.
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 the Conservative Party government of the day and mention Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by 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 Stone gave the album five stars, with Kurt Loder describing 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 initiated High Court proceedings 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 if Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr made records and went on the road calling themselves the Beatles. If John 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 the Wall concept and the inflatable Animals pig.[58] Pink Floyd released three studio albums without him: A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994) and The Endless River (2014).[59] According to a 1999 interview with Gilmour, Waters declined an invitation to perform The Dark Side of the Moon with Pink Floyd at Earls 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 Hiking and Radio K.A.O.S.
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 guitarist Eric Clapton, jazz saxophonist David Sanborn, and artwork by Gerald Scarfe.[62] Kurt Loder described The Pros And Cons of Hitch Hiking as a "strangely static, faintly hideous record".[63] Rolling Stone rated the album a "rock bottom one star".[62] Years later, Mike DeGagne of AllMusic praised 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 Hiking has been certified Gold by the RIAA.[67]
In 1986, Waters contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated film When the Wind Blows, based on the Raymond Briggs book of the same name. His backing band featuring Paul Carrack was credited as The Bleeding Heart Band.[68] In 1987, Waters released Radio 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 Berlin and Amused to Death
In November 1989, the
In 1990, Waters hired manager
1999–2004: In the Flesh tour and Wall Broadway 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 the Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, playing 15 Pink Floyd songs and five songs from his solo catalogue.[80]
Miramax announced in 2004 that a production of The Wall was 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 from The Wall, but also songs from Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and other Pink Floyd albums, as well as new material.[81] On the night of 1 May 2004, recorded extracts from the opera, including its overture, were played on the occasion of the Welcome Europe celebrations in the accession country of Malta. 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 over Grand Harbour in Valletta.[82] In July 2004, Waters released two new tracks online: "To Kill the Child", inspired by the 2003 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 and Ça Ira
In July 2005, Waters reunited with Mason, Wright, and Gilmour for their final performance together at the 2005
In September 2005, Waters released Ça Ira (pronounced [sa iˈʁa], French for "it will be fine"; Waters added the subtitle, "There is Hope"), an opera in three acts translated from the late Étienne Roda-Gil's French libretto based on the historical subject of the French Revolution.[88] Ça Ira was released as a double CD album, featuring baritone Bryn Terfel, soprano Ying Huang and tenor Paul 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, Berlioz and Borodin ... 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 biographer Mark Blake believes is "a testament to his mellower old age or twenty years of dedicated psychotherapy".[91] Ça Ira reached number 5 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart in the United States.[92]
2006–2009: The Dark Side of the Moon Live
In June 2006, Waters began the two-year Dark Side of the Moon Live world tour. The first half of the show featured both Pink Floyd songs and Waters's solo material; the second included a complete performance of The 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 of The Wall. The elaborate staging, by the concert lighting designer Marc 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-degree quadraphonic sound system. Mason joined Waters for the Dark Side of the Moon set and the encores on some 2006 performances.[93]
In March 2007, the Waters song "
2010s: The Wall Live and Is This the Life We Really Want?
In September 2010, Waters began the
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 the Radiohead producer Nigel 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 the Us + Them Tour, performing Pink Floyd and solo material.[110]
On 26 October 2018,
2020s: This is Not a Drill, Pink Floyd disputes and The 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 the 2020 presidential election.[114] The tour was rescheduled to 2022 due to the COVID-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 Stone noted 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 of The 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 the London Palladium, where he performed The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, spoke on topics such as Julian Assange and read from his unpublished memoir.[128]
Politics
Israeli–Palestinian conflict and accusations of antisemitism
Waters is a vocal supporter of Palestine in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[129] He is a member[130] of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), a campaign for an international boycott of Israel.[131] Waters first saw the Israeli West Bank barrier in 2006, at the request of Palestinian supporters, when he was scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv. He subsequently moved a Tel Aviv concert to Neve Shalom and 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 Palestinians as 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 in
In 2013, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Jewish human rights organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accused Waters of antisemitism for including a giant pig balloon bearing a Star of David in 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 to Nazi 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, the
In 2020, Major League Baseball stopped 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 and Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson was 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 the murder of George Floyd was carried out with a technique developed by the Israeli 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]
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 group Hamas. The move was supported by the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Frankfurt Jewish Community.[154][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".[155]
That May, German police opened a criminal investigation into Waters and the Nazi-style uniform he wore during his Berlin performance for possible incitement.[156] Nazi symbolism is banned in Germany, with exemptions for educational and artistic purposes.[157] Waters has long used similar uniforms for performances of The Wall, in which the protagonist hallucinates himself as a fascist dictator.[157] Israel's Foreign Ministry criticised Waters for his performance.[158] The US Department of State called it "deeply offensive to Jewish people" and accused Waters of having a record of using antisemitic tropes.[159] In the UK, the secretary of state, Michael Gove, and the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, issued statements condemning him.[160]
Waters said the use of fascist imagery was a statement in "opposition to fascism, injustice and bigotry".[161] He pointed out that he had been using Nazi-inspired uniforms in performances since 1980, but they had only recently attracted controversy.[162] Waters felt the criticism was disingenuous and politically motivated,[161] and that he had been attacked at the behest of the "Israeli lobby" in Germany.[163] In an interview with Double Down News, Waters said the accusations of antisemitism were a "vicious lie" and "deeply insulting", and that he was a victim of cancel 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".[162]
In May 2023, the Labour MP Christian Wakeford criticised Waters' shows in UK parliament. Waters responded at a concert in London the following month, calling Wakeford a "a fucking moron" and a "cripple", which Variety said "drew a sharp intake of breath" from some in attendance. Waters also said he was "pissed off with this Israeli lobby bullshit" and accused critics of "making up stuff because you've been told to by your masters from the Foreign Office in Tel Aviv".[164]
2023 documentary alleging antisemitism
In September 2023, a documentary alleging antisemitism by Waters, The Dark Side of Roger Waters, was released by the British group Campaign Against Antisemitism.[165] It includes accounts from Waters' past collaborators, including the Wall producer Bob Ezrin, who say Waters made offensive remarks about Jewish people.[165] 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".[165] Waters responded in a statement that he was "frequently mouthy and prone to irreverence" but not antisemitic, and that the film misrepresented his views.[165]
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 "dirty kyke", "follow the money" and "Scum" written on it.[166] 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".[166]
Hotel cancellations
Waters said in an interview with
The Hyatt Centric and the Regency Hotels in Montevideo denied Waters accommodation based on the right of admission.[171] Felipe Schipani, a Colorado Party National Representative, asked the Municipality of Montevideo to withdraw the "illustrious visitor to Montevideo" title given to Waters in 2018.[172]
BMG cancellation
In January 2024, the BMG music company cancelled a publishing agreement with Waters over his comments on Israel, Ukraine and the United States.[173]
Russian invasion of Ukraine
A week before the
On 5 September 2022, the day after Olena Zelenska, the First 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 the Minsk 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 the United 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
After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and subsequent tsunami disaster, Waters performed "Wish You Were Here" with Eric Clapton during a benefit concert on the American network NBC.[181]
He criticised the Hunting Act of 2004 and supported the Countryside 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 for
Waters is supportive of veterans, 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 opposed Brexit (the UK leaving the European Union). Following the June 2016 referendum, which resulted in leaving the EU, he said: "I thought we were better than that. I was wrong."[188] He criticised US President Donald Trump and his policies.[189] In 2017, Waters condemned Trump's plan to build a wall separating the US and Mexico, drawing parallels to The Wall.[190]
After the April 2018
In 2018, Waters included the Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro in a list of "neo-fascists" displayed on a big screen at his concert in São Paulo which drew mixed responses from the crowd.[195] In a concert in Rio de Janeiro that October, he acknowledged the murdered Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco and brought her daughter, sister and widow on stage.[196] In an interview with the online music magazine BrooklynVegan, he said he tried to visit the progressive politician Lula da Silva while 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's
Waters supports
During his 2022 This Is Not a Drill shows, every US president from
Artistry
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 a
Waters experimented with the
Personal life
In 1969, Waters married his childhood sweetheart Judith Trim, a school teacher and potter. She was featured on the gatefold sleeve of the original release of the Pink Floyd album Ummagumma, but excised from CD reissues.[218] They had no children and divorced in 1975.[219] Trim died in 2001.[220]
In 1976, Waters married Carolyne Christie, the niece of the third 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 in Long Island and Hampshire.[227] He is an atheist.[228][229]
Discography
- Solo albums
- The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984)
- Radio K.A.O.S. (1987)
- Amused to Death (1992)
- Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017)
- Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale (2018)
- The Lockdown Sessions (2022)
- The Dark Side of the Moon Redux (2023)
- Other work
- Music from The Body (with Ron Geesin) (1970)
- When the Wind Blows(1986)
- Ça Ira (2005)
- Pros and Cons (The Interviews) (2015)
Tours
- The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984–1985)
- K.A.O.S. On the Road (1987)
- In the Flesh (1999–2002)
- The Dark Side of the Moon Live (2006–2008)
- The Wall Live (2010–2013)
- Us + Them Tour (2017–2018)
- This Is Not a Drill (2022–2023)
Live band members
Current members
- Roger Waters – (1984–present)
- Jon Carin – piano, keyboards, programming, lap steel guitar, rhythm guitars, vocals (1999–2000, 2006–present)[230][231][232][233]
- Dave Kilminster – lead guitars, talk box, vocals (2006–present);[231][232][233] additional bass guitar (2006–2013)[234]
- Gus Seyffert – rhythm guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals (2017–present)[233]
- Jonathan Wilson – lead and rhythm guitars, vocals (2017–present)[233]
- percussion (2017–present)[233]
- Robert Walter – organ, keyboards (2022–present)
- Shanay Johnson – backing vocals (2022–present)
- Amanda Belair – backing vocals (2022–present)
- Seamus Blake – saxophone (2022–present)
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External links
- Official website
- Roger Waters at IMDb
- Roger Waters tour dates at Songkick