Roger Waters - Wikipedia. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1. English singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer.

In 1. 96. 5, he co- founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist Richard Wright, and guitarist, singer, and songwriter Syd Barrett. Waters initially served as the group's bassist, but following the departure of Barrett in 1. Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums. The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. By the early 1. 98.

Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1. They settled out of court in 1.

Waters' solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio K. A. O. S.,Amused to Death, and Is This the Life We Really Want?

In 1. 99. 0, he staged one of the largest and most extravagant rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an official attendance of 2. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the U. S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1. UK Music Hall of Fame in 2. In the same year he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda- Gils' libretto about the French Revolution.

Later that year, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Mason, Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters since 1. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1. The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tour of 2. In 2. 01. 0, he began The Wall Live and in 2. Gilmour and Mason appeared with him during a performance of the double- album in London. As of 2. 01. 7, the tour is the highest- grossing of all time by a solo artist. Early years[edit]Waters was born on 6 September 1.

Mary (née Whyte; 1. Eric Fletcher Waters (1. Great Bookham, Surrey. His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member. In the early years of the Second World War, his father was a conscientious objector who drove an ambulance during the Blitz.

Directed by Sean Evans, Roger Waters. With Roger Waters, Dave Kilminster, Snowy White, G.E. Smith. Details one of the most elaborately staged theatrical productions. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with. Download free full unlimited movies! There are millions of online movies, videos and TV shows you can download direct to your PC. From Action, Horror, Adventure.

· Roger Edwards of the Storm Prediction Center presents basic Frequently Asked Questions and the answers about tornadoes. AOL Radio is powered by humans! Great radio is all about unexpected connections--the kind that an algorithm can't predict. Pick any station in any of the 30 genres.

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 1. September 1. 94. 3.[4] He was killed five months later on 1. February 1. 94. 4 at Aprilia, during the Battle of Anzio, when Roger was five months old.[5] He is commemorated at the Cassino War Cemetery.[6] On 1. February 2. 01. 4, Waters unveiled a monument to his father and other war casualties in Aprilia, and was made an honorary citizen of Anzio.[7]Following her husband's death, Mary Waters, also a teacher, moved with her two sons to Cambridge and raised them there. Roger Waters' earliest memory is of the V- J Day celebrations.[9]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 his future musical partner, David Gilmour, lived nearby on the city's Mill Road, and attended the Perse School.[1.

At 1. 5, Waters was chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (YCND), having designed its publicity poster and participated in its organisation. Though he was a keen sportsman and a highly regarded member of the high school's cricket and rugby teams,[1. Waters, "I hated every second of it, apart from games. Watch The Dead Undead Streaming there. The regime at school was a very oppressive one .. Whereas Waters knew Barrett and Gilmour from his childhood in Cambridge, he met future Pink Floyd founder members Nick Mason and Richard Wright in London at the Regent Street Polytechnic (later the University of Westminster) school of architecture.

Waters enrolled there in 1. He had initially considered a career in mechanical engineering.

Pink Floyd[edit]Formation and Barrett- led period[edit]By September 1. Waters and Mason had lost interest in their studies and moved into the lower flat of Stanhope Gardens, owned by Mike Leonard, a part- time tutor at the Regent Street Polytechnic.[1.

Waters, Mason and Wright first played music together in late 1. Keith Noble and bassist Clive Metcalfe.[1. They usually called themselves Sigma 6, but also used the name the Meggadeaths. Waters played rhythm guitar and Mason played drums, Wright played on any keyboard he could arrange to use, and Noble's sister Sheilagh provided an occasional vocal accompaniment. In the early years the band performed during private functions and rehearsed in a tearoom in the basement of Regent Street Polytechnic. When Metcalfe and Noble left to form their own group in September 1. Barrett and guitarist Bob Klose to join.[2.

Waters switched to the bass and by January 1. Abdabs, or the Screaming Abdabs. During late 1. 96. Leonard's Lodgers, Spectrum Five, and eventually, the Tea Set. Sometime during late 1. Tea Set began calling itself the Pink Floyd Sound, later the Pink Floyd Blues Band and by early 1. Pink Floyd.[2. 4]By early 1.

Barrett was Pink Floyd's front- man, guitarist, and songwriter. He wrote or co- wrote all but one track of their debut LP The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, released in August 1. Waters contributed the song "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (his first sole writing credit) to the album. By late 1. 96. 7, Barrett's deteriorating mental health and increasingly erratic behaviour, rendered him "unable or unwilling" to continue in his capacity as Pink Floyd's singer- songwriter and lead guitarist.

In early March 1. Pink Floyd met with managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King of Blackhill Enterprises to discuss the band's future. Barrett agreed to leave Pink Floyd, and the band "agreed to Blackhill's entitlement in perpetuity" regarding "past activities". The band's new manager Steve O'Rourke made a formal announcement about the departure of Barrett and the arrival of David Gilmour in April 1. Waters- led period[edit]. A live performance of The Dark Side of the Moon at Earls Court, shortly after its release in 1.

David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Dick Parry, Roger Waters. Filling the void left by Barrett's departure in March 1. Waters began to chart Pink Floyd's artistic direction. He became the principal songwriter, lyricist and co- lead vocalist (along with Gilmour, and at times, Wright), and would remain the band's dominant creative figure until his departure in 1. He wrote the lyrics to the five Pink Floyd albums preceding his own departure, starting with The Dark Side of the Moon (1. The Final Cut (1.

Every Waters studio album since The Dark Side of the Moon has been a concept album.

Featured Videos - CBS News. November 4, 2. 01. AM President Trump heads to Asia Saturday for a trip that will take him through five countries. While there he'll push for increased pressure on North Korea, meet with China's president, attend an economic summit, and go one- on- one with the controversial president of the Philippines. Meanwhile, questions persist at home about Robert Mueller's investigation of the Trump campaign.

Jamie Yuccas reports.