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Born September 6, 1943, Greater Bookham, England - British rock musician, vocalist, bass player, composer, poet.

Waters grew up in Cambridge and went to school with Sid Barrett and David Gilmore, who later became Pink Floyd (he met two other band members, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, while studying architecture at the Polytechnic University of Westminster in Lodon) ... Since childhood, he loves sports, especially swimming, is a fan of the football team Arsenal (London). At the age of 15, he headed the youth department of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Cambridge.

In 1965 Roger Waters founded Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett as songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist, Richard Wright on keyboards and Nick Mason on drums. Although Barrett was initially the band's main creative force, their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, also featured one Waters song, Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk. The album was a great success and contributed to the group's popularity.

By 1968, Syd Barrett's mental health problems forced him to leave the band, and David Gilmour, also guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, was recruited.

But by the late 1970s, Waters and Gilmour's relationship deteriorated as Waters gained more and more influence over the band, especially with the rock opera The Wall (about half of the material was a prerequisite for Waters' solo style). In 1982, a full-length film based on the album, Pink Floyd The Wall, was released, the script of which was written by Waters. The making of the film was accompanied by a further deterioration in relations between the two most powerful personalities of the group - Waters and Gilmore.

In 1982, Waters proposed a new musical project, tentatively titled Spare Bricks, originally conceived as a soundtrack to Pink Floyd's The Wall. With the outbreak of the Falklands War, Waters changed direction and began writing new material. In 1983, The Final Cut, the last album to be released with Waters and Gilmore, was listed as Waters's album, subtitled "Requiem for Roger Waters's Post-War Dream, sung by Pink Floyd."

In 1985 Waters announced the band's disbandment. Gilmour's confrontation with Waters over the use of the Pink Floyd name turned into a lawsuit. Waters used as an argument the fact that the band originally consisted of him, Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, and without the founders, she can no longer call herself that. Also, according to him, he wrote almost all the lyrics of the group after Barrett's departure. But in the end, the rights to use the name "Pink Floyd" and most of the songs passed to Gilmore, Mason and Wright, who resumed their concert activities and recording new albums under this name. Waters also received the rights to The Wall album and all his songs, as well as to the famous pig Pink Floyd.

After Pink Floyd, Waters embarked on a solo career, releasing three concept albums and a soundtrack for the animated film When the Wind Blows, which, however, did not sell very well. However, released in 1992, the album Amused to Death was highly praised by critics.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Waters put on a giant benefit concert for The Wall in Berlin on July 21, 1990, to mark the end of the division between East and West Germany.

After a long hiatus, he began touring again in the late 1990s, playing live concerts of his acclaimed Pink Floyd works and solo material.

In 2002, Waters played at a concert organized by the Countryside Alliance in support of fox hunting, although Waters had never supported the Tories before, on the contrary, strongly opposed their policies and openly criticized the Falklands War in The Final Cut.

Miramax announced in mid-2004 that it is working on The Wall on Broadway, in which Waters is directly involved. It is known that it will include not only songs from The Wall, but also from The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here from other albums, including new material.

In September 2004 Waters released two new tracks on the internet, "To Kill The Child" and "Leaving Beirut". Both are dedicated to the invasion of Iraq by the States and the United Kingdom in 2003. The lyrics are very clear about the author's point of view: “O George! Oh George! Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small "(from Leaving Beirut).

After the tsunami in late December 2004, Waters played "Wish You Were Here" with Eric Clapton at an NBC concert.

Since 2002 Roger Waters has been working on two new solo projects: an album tentatively titled Heartland (from the words of Jim Ladd, with whom he worked on Radio KAOS) and a sequel to Amused to Death. The supposed and long-past release date for both albums is 2006. Two possible songs from the new album appeared on In The Flesh Live ("Each Small Candle") and on the compilation The Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Vol. 1 ("Flickering Flame").

On July 2, 2005 Waters joined Pink Floyd for Live 8.

However, shortly after Live 8, Waters told The Associated Press that while he enjoyed playing with Pink Floyd, the chances of a full-fledged group reunion are slim, given his ideological and musical differences with Gilmore.

After the album Amused to Death in 1992, Waters worked for fifteen years on the creation of the opera Ca Ira. In February 2005, an announcement appeared on his website that the work was completed and the opera would be released on CD and DVD in September 2005. The SACD (Super Audio CD) and DVD double album containing Adrien Mayben's (creator of Live at Pompeii's) film about the making of the opera went on sale September 27, 2005.

In the summer of 2006, Waters embarked on The Dark Side of the Moon Live Tour in Europe and North America. At some of Waters' concerts, former Pink Floyd bandmate Nick Mason was recruited. Richard Wright was also invited, but he did not take advantage of this offer, explaining that he was working on solo projects. The second leg of the 2007 tour covered Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and South Africa, ending in North America.

On July 7, 2006, Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett died from complications related to diabetes. On May 10, 2007, the London Barbican Center hosted a Syd Barrett - Madcap's Last Laugh commemoration concert hosted by Joe Boyd and Gilmore's friend Nick Laird-Claus. The concert, among others, was attended by all four Pink Floyd: the trio of Gilmore, Mason, Wright and Roger Waters solo, which once again confirmed the fact that it was impossible to reunite Pink Floyd (after the death of Rick Wright in 2008, this elusive possibility was completely lost). Waters played the acclaimed work Flickering Flame from his solo repertoire, and the trio performed their former leader's long-standing composition Arnold Layne. During the performance, the name Pink Floyd was not mentioned.

On July 7, 2007, Waters, being the only member of the group, performed on the American stage of the "event of the century" - the Live Earth concert (which he announced back in March 2007 in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, also adding that the rest of the Floyds would not take part in concert), the purpose of which was to focus on the problem of global climate change. While performing in New York, he performed the intro to In the Flesh, Money, Us and Them, Brain Damage and Eclipse, ending with Another Brick in the Wall, which he performed together. with a youthful choir from Trenton under the famous inflatable pig.

On June 6, 2008, a concert took place in support of the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. Roger Waters has become a spokesman for the Millennium Promise, a charity that helps fight extreme poverty and malaria. He made an appeal to the world on June 8 via CNN. Translation of the appeal is available here.

Roger Waters' tour "The Wall Live" (2010-2013), grossing $ 458 million, became the highest grossing concert tour for solo artists. As part of The Wall's 2011 European tour, Waters also performed in Russia: on April 23 in Moscow and on April 25 in St. Petersburg.

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