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Roger Waters
Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK
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…
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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.
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2026
Pink Floyd Live Dortmund 1981
Movie Self - Bass
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2025
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary)
Movie Bass, Vocals
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2025
Eternal Return - PINK Edition
Movie Music
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2025
Janin, Jenin
Movie Music
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2024
Censoring Palestine
Movie Self
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2024
Walled Off
Movie Producer
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2024
Echoes - A History Of Pink Floyd
Movie Self
- 2023
- 2023
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2023
Lyd
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Môa, Mother Africa Roots
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Movie Self
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
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2022
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
Movie Sé stesso
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2022
Pink Floyd: Animals (2018 Remix)
Movie Self
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2022
If These Walls Could Sing
Movie Self
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2021
The Four Walls
Movie Producer
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2021
Pink Floyd: Hakone Aphrodite 1971
Movie Self
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2020
Pink Floyd - On Thin Ice
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
A Fleeting Glimpse
Movie
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2020
Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Roger Waters: Us + Them
Movie Self - Lead Vocals, Bass, Guitar
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2018
On l'appelait Roda
Movie Self
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2016
Soundbreaking
TV show Self
- 2016
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- 2016
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- 2016
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2016
Pink Floyd : The Early Years 1965-1972
Movie Self
- 2016
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2016
The Ploy
Movie Music
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2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Musical Guest
- 2015
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2014
Roger Waters: The Wall
Movie Self - Vocal, Guitar, and Bass
