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English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer, George Roger Waters was born September 6, 1943. Roger Waters founded Pink Floyd and assumed control after Syd Barrett’s departure in 1968. He became their main songwriter, bass player, vocalist and the mastermind behind the majority of the band's songs, concept albums and many of Pink Floyd's symbols including the Pink Floyd Pigs and the marching hammers. His personal input led the band to FM radio immortality with the Psychedelic masterpieces ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ (1973) and ‘The Wall’(1979), not to mention a string of hugely selling records that were the ONLY music to listen to for thousands of tripping teenagers from the 1970s well into the '80s. This made Roger Waters the most arrogant as well as the most brilliant figure in rock music. Waters' lyrics exorcised his personal anguish caused by his father’s death during World War II and also addressed the pressures of rock stardom and the resulting alienation of the artist from his audience. The introspective nature of these lyrics often led to accusations of indulgence, which in part led to the break-up on the Pink Floyd in 1983. Following the bitter split, Waters began a moderately successful solo career by producing electronically innovative records, tinkering with the Rock Opera genre with varying results. Roger Water released three studio albums and staged one of the largest concerts ever, The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990. ‘The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking’ was his first official solo album that was a marked departure from his usual bitter lyrics. Eric Clapton made a guest appearance on the album. Roger Waters wrote and performed the soundtrack to the Raymond Briggs animated anti-nuclear war film, When The Wind Blows in 1986. Waters masterminded a massive performance of ‘The Wall’ by the remains of the Berlin Wall in July 1990 as part of a project in aid of the Leonard Cheshire Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief. This was Waters’ ambitious event that was televised around the world featuring a host of star guests including performances by Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper, Sin‚ad O'Connor and Joni Mitchell, plus actors Albert Finney and Tim Curry. Roger Waters dedicated 1992"s ‘Amused To Death’ to the memory of a late World War II soldier. During this Roger Waters was in bitter litigation with other members of his former group as he unsuccessfully tried to stop them using the Pink Floyd name. Someone still has to find a way of healing the rift between Waters and the remaining members of the Pink Floyd. Despite no new recordings, Waters did tour the USA during the summer of 1999. Several of the performances were later compiled on ‘In The Flesh’. Roger Waters released an opera, Ça Ira and joined Pink Floyd at the Live 8 concert in London, on July 2, 2005 for the first public performance including Waters in 24 years. Waters teamed up with big guns Ennio Morricone and Eddie Van Halen for a single featured on the soundtrack for Tim Roth's new movie, The Legend of 1900.

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