George Roger Waters
(Born September, 6th 1943)
is an
English musician
and
singer-songwriter.
In 1965,
he co-founded
the rock band
Pink Floyd
as the bassist.
Following the departure
of the group's
main songwriter
Syd Barrett
in 1968,
Waters became
Pink Floyd's lyricist,
co-lead vocalist
and conceptual leader
until his departure in 1985.
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).
By the early 1980s,
they had become
one of the most
acclaimed and
commercially successful groups
in popular music.
Amid creative differences,
Waters left in 1985
and began a
legal dispute
over the use
of the band's name
and material.
They settled out of court
in 1987.
Waters's solo work
includes
the studio albums
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
(1984),
Radio K.A.O.S.
(1987),
Amused to Death
(1992),
and
Is This the Life We Really Want?
(2017).
In 2005,
he released
Ça Ira,
an opera translated from
Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils's
libretto about
the French Revolution.
In 1990,
Waters staged one
of the largest rock concerts
in history,
The Wall – Live in Berlin,
with an attendance
of 450,000.
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.
Later in 2005,
he reunited with
Pink Floyd
for the Live 8
global awareness event,
their only appearance
with Waters since 1981.
He has toured extensively
as a solo act since 1999.
He performed
The Dark Side of the Moon
for his world tour of
2006–2008,
and
The Wall Live,
his tour of
2010–2013,
was the
highest-grossing tour
by a solo artist
at the time.
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