Roger Waters

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-09-06 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK

Also Known As Pink Floyd

Roger Waters

Biography

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

Known For

Actor

2023
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary Blu-Ray)

as Bass Guitar, Vocals, VCS3 & Tape Effects

2020
Pink Floyd - On Thin Ice

as Self (archive footage)

2020
Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Roger Waters: Us + Them

as Self - Lead Vocals, Bass, Guitar

2018
2016
2014
Roger Waters: The Wall

as Self - Vocal, Guitar, and Bass

2010
Conan

as Self

2008
2007
Roger Waters: Live in Argentina

as Himself (Lead vocals, Bas, Acoustic Guitar)

2007
2006
Roger Waters: Live at Rock in Rio - Lisboa 2006

as vocals, bass, acoustic guitar

2005
Live 8

as Self

2005
2005
Pink Floyd - The Reunion Concert

as Self - Bass, Vocals

2005
Pink Floyd: Live Anthology

as Self - Bass, Vocals

2000
Roger Waters: In The Flesh - Live

as Himself - Vocals, Bas

1997
1992
1990
Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

as Self / Pink, The Father / The Doctor

1988
Roger Waters: Radio KAOS

as Vocals, Bass

1980
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self - Pink Floyd

1972
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

as Self - Bass, Vocals

1971
Stamping Ground

as Self - Pink Floyd

1967
Omnibus

as Self

Sound

1995
1986
When the Wind Blows

as Original Music Composer

1983
Pink Floyd: The Final Cut

as Music Producer

1982
Pink Floyd: The Wall

as Music Producer

1982
1972
The Valley

as Original Music Composer

1970
The Body

as Music

1970
1969
More

as Music

Producer

2024
Walled Off

as Producer

2023
Lyd

as Executive Producer

2021
The Four Walls

as Producer

2019
2014