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Roger Waters (6 September 1943) is an English rock musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Roger Waters was the bass player, co-lead vocalist, lyricist, primary songwriter, and one of the founding members of the rock band Pink Floyd. Following his departure from Pink Floyd in 1984 Waters began a solo career, releasing three studio albums. Roger Waters 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.

On 27 September 2005, after 16 years of work, Waters released his opera Ça Ira. It was released as a CD/DVD set, with Baritone Bryn Terfel, soprano Ying Huang and tenor Paul Groves. The original libretto was written in French by the late Étienne Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine, who set the opera during the early French Revolution. From 1997 Waters rewrote the libretto in English, and had this to say about the composition: "I've always been a big fan of Beethoven's choral music, Berlioz and Borodin … This is unashamedly romantic and resides in that early 19th-century tradition, because that's where my tastes lie in classical and choral music." Waters appeared on television to discuss the opera, but the interviews often focused instead on his relationship with Pink Floyd, something Waters would "take in stride", a sign Mark Blake believes to be "a testament to his mellower old age or twenty years of dedicated psychotherapy.

Waters' manager Mark Fenwick has confirmed that Roger Waters will tour The Wall. The tour dates were announced on 12 April 2010. The name of the tour is Roger Waters: The Wall Live. Roger Waters Tickets are available on Sold Out Ticket Market at nominal rates.


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Roger Waters Views and advocacy

Waters is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance and has played concerts to raise funds for the organisation. Waters claimed he left Britain due to the Hunting Act 2004:“I’ve become disenchanted with the political and philosophical atmosphere in England. The anti-hunting
bill was enough for me to leave England. I did what I could, I did a concert and one or two articles, but it made me feel ashamed to be English. I was in Hyde Park for both the Countryside Alliance marches. There were hundreds of thousands of us there. Good, honest English people. That’s one of the most divisive pieces of legislation we’ve ever had in Great Britain. It was disgusting.”

Waters opposes the barrier being built by Israel, calling it an "obscenity" that "should be torn down." In December 2009 he pledged his support to the Gaza Freedom March. Waters has voiced his opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom and the War in Afghanistan (2001–present):

“The loss of a father is the central prop upon which stands. As the years go by, children lose their fathers again and again, for nothing. You see it now with all of these fathers, good men and true, who lost their lives and limbs in Iraq for no reason at all. I’ve done Bring the Boys Back Home in my encores on recent tours. It feels more relevant and poignant to be singing that song now than it did in 1979.”

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Roger Waters Equipment and instruments

Waters first played a Höfner bass that was soon replaced with a Rickenbacker 4001S. Circa 1970 he switched to a Fender Precision Bass. He often plays with a pick but is also known to play fingerstyle. Waters uses RotoSound Jazz Bass 77 bass guitar strings. Throughout his career he has used WEM, Hiwatt and Ashdown amplifiers. He is known to use delay, tremolo, chorus effect and phaser effects in his music.

While usually credited only as a bass guitarist and vocalist, Waters is also known to play electric
guitar (as he did on Wish You Were Here and Animals, where he played rhythm guitar on tracks "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" part 9 and "Sheep") as well as synthesizer and tape effects, both to Pink Floyd and his solo works. He also plays acoustic guitar frequently during his live tours, mostly on tracks from The Final Cut and on the track "Mother".The following is a list of equipment Waters has used on his recordings and tours.

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Roger Waters Hits and awards

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) "is one of the most acclaimed albums of all time. A stunning exploration of madness, death, anxiety, and alienation", it stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for 724 weeks—the longest ever consecutive run for an LP—and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

It still sells around 5,000 units every week.[108] RIAA ranks The Dark Side of the Moon number 22 on its "Top 100 Albums" list, with 15 million certified units sold in the US. Pink Floyd's album The Wall is largely based on Waters' life story and having sold 23 million RIAA
certified units in the US is one of the top three selling albums of all time in America.

The RIAA and the National Endowment for the Arts named the Waters composition "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" one of the "365 Top Selling Songs of the 20th Century"."Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" was also ranked number 375 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

Pink Floyd has sold over 200 million albums worldwide including 74.5 million certified units in the United States. "What God Wants, Pt. 1" from Amused to Death, reached number 35 in the UK in September 1992 and number 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart in the US.

His first solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, has been certified Gold by the RIAA, and his opera Ça Ira reached number 5 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart in the US. Waters has been inducted into the US and UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd; he has also received a "Media Event of the Year" award for staging The Wall Live in Berlin. In February 2009 he received a "Cinema for Peace" award for The Wall.

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Roger Waters Biography

Born in Great Bookham near Leatherhead, Surrey, Waters grew up in Cambridge. His father Eric Fletcher Waters fought with the British army in World War II as a member of The Royal Fusiliers Company C. He died in combat at Anzio Italy in February 1944 when Waters was five months old.

Waters referred or alluded to the cost of war and the loss of his father throughout his work, from
"Corporal Clegg" (A Saucerful Of Secrets, 1968) and "Free Four" (Obscured By Clouds, 1972) to "Us and Them" from The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), "When the Tigers Broke Free", first used in the movie version of The Wall (1982), later included with "The Fletcher Memorial Home" on The Final Cut (1983), an album which is dedicated to Eric Fletcher Waters. The loss of his father and subsequent traumatic upbringing play a central role in the theme and composition of The Wall (1979).

Waters and Syd Barrett attended the Morley Memorial Junior School on Blinco Grove, Cambridge, and later both attended the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (now Hills Road Sixth Form College), while future band member David Gilmour attended The Perse School on the same road. He met Nick Mason and Richard Wright while attending the Regent Street Polytechnic school of architecture. He was a keen sportsman and was fond of swimming in the River Cam at Grantchester Meadows. At 15 he was chairman of the youth section of the Cambridge YCND, having designed its publicity poster and participated in its
organization.

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