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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (49)
Eternal Return - PINK Edition
Music (Sound)
2025
Censoring Palestine
as Self
2024
Walled Off
Producer (Production)
2024
Echoes - A History Of Pink Floyd
as Self
2024
Roger Waters: This is not a Drill, Live at River Plate Stadium
2023
Lyd
Executive Producer (Production)
2023
Môa, Mother Africa Roots
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
as Self
2023
Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill — Live from Prague
2023
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
as Self
2023
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon Planetarium Experience
Music (Sound)
2023
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
as Sé stesso
2022
Pink Floyd: Animals (2018 Remix)
as Self
2022
If These Walls Could Sing
as Self
2022
The Four Walls
Producer (Production)
2021
Pink Floyd: Hakone Aphrodite 1971
as Self
2021
Pink Floyd - On Thin Ice
as Self (archive footage)
2020
A Fleeting Glimpse
2020
Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Roger Waters: Us + Them
as Self - Lead Vocals, Bass, Guitar
2019
Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Rehearsal 1987
as Self
2019
On l'appelait Roda
as Self
2018
Pink Floyd - The Early Years Vol 7: 1967–1972: Continu/ation
as Self
2016
Pink Floyd - The Early Years Vol 6: 1972: Obfusc/ation
as Self
2016
Pink Floyd - The Early Years Vol 5: 1971: Reverber/ation
as Self
2016
Pink Floyd - The Early Years Vol 2: 1968: Germin/ation
as Self
2016
Pink Floyd - The Early Years Vol 4: 1970: Devi/ation
as Self
2016
Pink Floyd - The Early Years Vol 3: 1969: Dramatis/ation
as Self
2016
Pink Floyd - The Early Years Vol 1: 1965-1967: Cambridge St/ation
as Self
2016
Pink Floyd : The Early Years 1965-1972
as Self
2016
The Ploy
Music (Sound)
2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
as Narrator (voice)
2016
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
2015
Roger Waters: The Wall
as Self - Vocal, Guitar, and Bass
2014
Pink Floyd: Video Anthology Vol 1
as himself
2014
Pink Floyd: Video Anthology Vol 2
as himself
2014
Chit Chat with Oysters
as Self
2013
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
as Self
2012
Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here
as Self
2012
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Immersion Box)
as Self
2012
Pink Floyd – 1982-2012 : Les 30 ans de The Wall
as Self
2011
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (Immersion Box Set)
as Self
2011
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (Immersion Box Set)
as Self
2011
Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall
as Self
2011
Roger Waters : The Wall - Live Netherlands
as self
2011
Roger Waters – 30th Anniversary Of The Wall
as himself
2011
Pink Floyd: The Best of Pink Floyd
2011
Pink Floyd: Whatever Happened to Pink Floyd? The Strange Case of Waters and Gilmour
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Roger Waters The Wall on Tour
as self
2010
