At 15, Waters was chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (YCND), having designed its publicity poster and participated in its organisation. 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, while future Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour lived nearby on Mill Road and attended the Perse School. Waters's earliest memory is of the V-J Day celebrations. Following her husband's death, Mary Waters, also a teacher, moved with her two sons to Cambridge and raised them there. 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. He is commemorated in Aprilia and at the Cassino War Cemetery. He was killed five months later on 18 February 1944 at Aprilia, during the Battle of Anzio, when Roger was five months old. He later changed his stance on pacifism, joined the Territorial Army and was commissioned into the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a Second Lieutenant on 11 September 1943. In the early years of the Second World War, Waters's father was a conscientious objector who drove an ambulance during the Blitz. His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member. 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 Great Bookham, Surrey. 3.5 2010–present: The Wall Live and Is This the Life We Really Want?.3.4 2005–2015: Pink Floyd reunion, Ça Ira, and further touring.3.3 1999–2004: In the Flesh tour and Wall Broadway production.3.2 1989–1999: The Wall – Live in Berlin and Amused to Death.3.1 1984–1989: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and Radio K.A.O.S.He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 he performed The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tour of 2006–2008, and the Wall Live tour of 2010–2013 was the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist at the time. Later that year, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event, the group's only appearance with Waters since 1981. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In 1990, Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an attendance of 450,000. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). Waters's solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. 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). Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1983. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He continued: “There are packs of lies and information I’ve allowed to sit out there but my general view is to swallow and … it’ll all come right one day in one way or another.George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. And I’m not keen on constantly responding to every bit of untruth that I hear about myself and what I’m doing.” In the summer, Roger Waters shared a lengthy statement and video accusing his estranged Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour of telling ‘porky pies’ and talking ‘gobbledygook’ concerning the band’s history.ĭavid Gilmour said in a Rolling Stone interview that the chances of reconciling with Roger are “pretty unlikely.” David explained: “There’s a lot of misinformation. His last UK tour took place in summer 2018. ![]() ![]() Roger Waters’ This Is Not a Drill Tour hits North America for an extensive run of shows in July, August, September and October 2022. He was married to Priscilla Phillips from 1993 to 2001, and filmmaker Laurie Durning from 2012 to 2015.
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