“A one off thing, for some kind of charity event, I could see that happening again. I guess three [original members] is enough. I would be up for it, for sure.”
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George Roger Waters is an English singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the band's main songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's principal lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.
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“A one off thing, for some kind of charity event, I could see that happening again. I guess three [original members] is enough. I would be up for it, for sure.”
“great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.”
“many very close Jewish friends”
“They’re trying to cancel me like they cancelled Jeremy Corbyn and Julian Assange. I will not be cancelled.”
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“There is no way the North and South towers and Building Seven came down because of airplanes hitting. Just not possible.”
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“probably the most provoked invasion ever”
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“fuelling the fire in the Ukraine... that is a huge crime”
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“This war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border – which they promised they wouldn”
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“the Ukraine is a deeply divided country. In fact, it”
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“pissed off with this Israeli lobby bullshit”
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“offensive words I referenced... were my brainstorming ideas on how to make the evils and horrors of fascism and extremism apparent”
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“opposition to fascism, injustice and bigotry”
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“Dave, Rick, Nick, and I were so young when we made [the original], and when you look at the world around us, clearly the message hasn”
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“No comment. Oh, shut up ... They”
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“You then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else. And at that point I thought to myself,”
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“s lyrics and music. His lyrics were critical of the Conservative Party government of the day and mention Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by name. At the time Gilmour did not have any new material, so he asked Waters to delay the recording until he could write some songs, but Waters refused. According to Mason, after power struggles within the band and creative arguments about the album, Gilmour”
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“drag [Pink Floyd] kicking and screaming back from the borders of space, from the whimsy that Syd was into, to my concerns, which were much more political and philosophical”
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SURFER Magazine: Pristine Waters, Timeless Style, and Canada’s Coolest Surf Contest
Rough Draft Atlanta: Sasha Waters’ film ‘Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World’ to debut on PBS Aug. 25
Risk & Insurance: AXA XL Names Matt Waters Head of Large Commercial and Specialty
Far Out Magazine: “Wow”: The 1979 Neil Young song that leaves Roger Waters speechless
The Guardian: University spinout to launch water quality app for UK and US waters
Public attention spiked: 9,296 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 2,495, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Called for the release of Imran
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Released album “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux Live”.
The Guardian: Roger Waters dropped by BMG over Israel comments
“so disgusting and degrading when you stand up for the Zionist entity ... [It] was one of the most disgusting things I”
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Released album “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux”.
The Guardian: Roger Waters accused of repeated antisemitism in new documentary
The Guardian: Roger Waters review – embattled singer vows ‘I will not be cancelled’
The Guardian: Protesters accuse Roger Waters of antisemitism ahead of Frankfurt gig
The Guardian: Berlin police investigate Roger Waters over Nazi-style uniform at concert
Released album “This Is Not a Drill: Live From Prague”.
The Guardian: Roger Waters wins legal battle to gig in Frankfurt amid antisemitism row
The Guardian: Roger Waters threatens legal action over German concert cancellations
The Guardian: Roger Waters reveals first music from re-recorded solo Dark Side of the Moon
The Guardian: Ukraine rebukes Roger Waters' ceasefire call as 'brick in the wall of Russian propaganda' – video
The Guardian: Pink Floyd lyricist calls Roger Waters an antisemite and ‘Putin apologist’
Waters gave an interview in which he criticised Pink Floyd's 2022 track "Hey, Hey, Rise Up
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Released album “The Wall of Sydney”.
Tanya Gold wrote for UnHerd that "Waters believes that a Jewish conspiracy overthrew Jeremy Corbyn, fixed the result of the 2019 general election, and controls Keir Starmer"
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Was one of the principal signers of an open letter called Artists Against Apartheid
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Released album “The Lockdown Sessions”.
The Guardian: Roger Waters cancels gigs in Poland amid row over Ukraine war comments
Released album “2022‐08‐20: State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA, USA”.
Released album “2022‐07‐12: TD Garden, Boston, MA, USA”.
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Waters said he had begun writing a memoir during the pandemic
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Waters wrote publicly of their disputes over Pink Floyd reissues and credits, accusing Gilmour of distorting the truth, and complained that Gilmour would not allow him to use Pink Floyd's website and social media channel
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Released album “Us + Them”.
Major League Baseball stopped advertising Waters's This Is Not a Drill concerts after receiving criticism from Jewish advocacy groups
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Waters spoke at a rally outside the Home Office calling for the release of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and dedicated a performance of "Wish You Were Here" to him
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Released album “The Gunner’s Dream”.
“the only reason Lula is in prison is because he would have won the election”
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Released album “Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale”.
Released album “Hyde Park 2018”.
Released album “2018-05-09: Pigs Rule the World: Halle Tony Garner, Lyon, France”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Waters included the Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro in a list of "neo-fascists" displayed on a screen at his concert in São Paulo, which drew mixed responses from the crowd
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Released album “2018‐04‐28: Prague – O2 Arena”.
Waters feels that "everything should be judged on the writing rather than the playing"
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Released album “Is This the Life We Really Want?”.
Waters criticised US President Donald Trump and his policies
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With the Us + Them Tour, performing Pink Floyd and solo material
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Urged Radiohead to cancel a concert there, signing a letter with 50 others, and was co-signatory on an open letter asking Nick Cave to cancel his
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The investigative journalist and filmmaker Ian Halperin produced a documentary, Wish You Weren't Here, accusing Waters of antisemitism and "erecting the very walls that hinder peace in the region and fuel hatred"
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Released album “Desert Trip 2016 Weekend 2”.
Released album “Roger Waters: The Wall”.
Waters said that socialism was "a good thing", and called for socialised healthcare in the United States
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Waters published an open letter in Salon criticising the rock band Bon Jovi for performing in Tel Aviv
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Waters said he regretted the lawsuit and had failed to appreciate that the Pink Floyd name had commercial value independent of the band members
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Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Jewish human rights organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Center, accused Waters of antisemitism for including a giant pig balloon bearing a Star of David in his concerts
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Released album “The Lunatic Is in the Hall”.
Released album “Lunatic Rave”.
Led a benefit for United States military veterans, Stand Up for Heroes, and invited a group of combat-wounded veterans, MusiCorps, to perform with him
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Released album “The Collection”.
Released album “2011-05-17: The Wall Live at O2 Arena, London”.
Released album “2011-05-12: The Wall Live at O2 Arena, London”.
Released album “2010-09-24: The Wall Live at United Center, Chicago”.
Released album “The Wall: Chicago 20 September 2010”.
Released album “The London Rehearsals”.
Released album “Is It the Fifth?”.
Released album “The Wall Live (Last Night in Toronto, 18.09.2010)”.
Released album “Live in Zurich”.
Released album “Sidewinder: 1984 ‘Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking’ Tour”.
Released album “Acer Arena 2007”.
Released album “Set Your Controls, Snowy!”.
Released album “50.000 Lunatics on the Grass”.
Released album “Carry the Stone”.
Waters became a spokesman for Millennium Promise, a non-profit organisation fighting poverty and malaria
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Released album “Cleveland, OH”.
At the request of Palestinian supporters, when he was scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv
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Asked if he felt his goals for Dark Side had been accomplished, Waters said his wife wept the first time he played it for her: "You then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else
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“Opis: z wywiadu dla Radiowej Trójki – Poznań, 24 sierpnia 2006.”
Released album “1999‐08‐17: You’ve Gotta Be Crazy”.
Released album “Ça ira”.
Released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils's libretto about the French Revolution
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Reunited with Pink Floyd for the Live 8 global awareness event, their only appearance with Waters since 1981
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Waters said the period of his departure had been a "bad, negative time", and that he regretted his part in the negativity: "Why should I have imposed my feeling about the work and what it was worth on the others if they
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Waters became engaged to the actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning
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That a production of The Wall was to appear on Broadway with Waters playing a prominent role in the creative direction
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Released album “Flickering Flame: The Solo Years, Volume I”.
Released album “KAOS Creek”.
They had a son, Harry Waters, who has played keyboards with Waters's touring band since 2002, and a daughter, India Waters, who has worked as a model.
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“Opis: z wywiadu dla Radiowej Trójki – Londyn, 19 października 2001.”
Released album “In the Flesh”.
Released album “Project K.A.O.S.”.
Released album “In the Flesh Tour ’99”.
After a 12-year hiatus from touring and a seven-year absence from the music industry, Waters embarked on the In the Flesh tour, performing both solo and Pink Floyd material
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Released album “Complete Hitch Hiking Performance”.
Waters was inducted into the US and UK Rock and Roll Halls of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd
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Released album “The Best”.
Waters married Priscilla Phillips
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Released album “Amused to Death”.
Released album “Welcome to the Machine (live in Quebec Canada)”.
“Well, anyway, I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the War.”
“It's actually quite emotional, standing up here with these three guys after all these years, standing to be counted with the rest of you. Anyway, we're doing this for everyone who's not here, and particulary of course for Syd”
That he was "never a bass player" and had never been interested in playing musical instruments
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Released album “The Wall: Live in Berlin”.
Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin
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Released ep “The Wall Berlin ’90”.
Waters hired manager Mark Fenwick and left EMI for a worldwide deal with Columbia
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And said about the composition: "I've always been a big fan of Beethoven's choral music, Berlioz and Borodin
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Released album “Radio K.A.O.S.”.
Waters contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated film When the Wind Blows, based on the book by Raymond Briggs
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“I was wrong! Of course I was. Who cares?”
And began a legal battle with the band regarding their continued use of the name and material
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And began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material
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Released album “The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking”.
Waters released his first solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, which dealt with Waters's feelings about monogamy and family life versus "the call of the wild
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“Cóż, w każdym razie jestem jednym z pięciu najlepszych autorów tekstów, których wydała angielska muzyka powojenna.”
Released album “Innerview: Series 24, Show 08: Pink Floyd, The Final Cut”.
“Miałem w pewnym momencie taką raczej dołującą wizję jakiejś obcej cywilizacji obserwującej śmierć tej planety – schodzącej ze swoich statków i węszącej dookoła; znajdującej wszystkie te szkielety siedzące wokół naszych odbiorników telewizyjnych i próbującej rozpracować, dlaczego nasz koniec przyszedł przed czasem. I dochodzą do wniosku, że zabawiliśmy się na śmierć.”
“Nie mam nic przeciwko Davidowi Gilmourowi odnoszącemu swoje własne sukcesy. Tym, co mnie obraża, jest tylko koncepcja kariery solowej Dave’a przeprowadzanej pod maską Pink Floyd!”
“W ukończonym towarze jedynym ważnym atrybutem jest to, czy cię on porusza czy nie. Nic poza tym nie jest naprawdę istotne.”
“Wiesz, to tak jakby powiedzieć „Daj człowiekowi gitarę Les Paul, a stanie się Erikiem Claptonem”. To nieprawda. Daj człowiekowi wzmacniacz i syntezator, a nie stanie się kimkolwiek. Nie stanie się nami.”
“Dla nas najważniejsze jest by być widocznym, a dla oglądających nas dzieciaków by się dobrze bawić. To wszystko, czego chcemy. Czujemy się bardzo przygnębieni jeśli ludzie nudzą się gdy my jesteśmy dopiero w połowie drogi przez drugi zestaw. Wtedy nagle słyszą Arnolda Layne, i wariują na nowo.”
“Tamtego roku zrozumiałem, że żyje się tu i teraz. Moja matka miała obsesje na punkcie edukacji. Uważała, że dzieciństwo i czas dojrzewania, to przygotowanie do życia, które zaczyna się później. Nagle dotarło do mnie, że tak nie jest. Życie dzieje się nieustannie. W każdej chwili możemy pokierować swoim przeznaczeniem. To wielkie odkrycie było dla mnie prawdziwym szokiem.”
“Oto do czego się to według mnie sprowadza: czy te nowe technologie w komunikacji i kulturze – a zwłaszcza w muzyce popularnej, która jest rozległym i ukochanym przedsięwzięciem – pomogą nam lepiej się nawzajem zrozumieć, czy też może raczej zwiodą nas na manowce i oddalą od siebie?”
“Michael Jackson także występował na stadionach – ale on nie robi tego dla siebie, on to robi by ocalić wszystkie małe dzieci na świecie.”
“Pierwsze Radio nie będzie grać mojego cholernego singla (What God Wants), ponieważ wiedzą, że nie jest dobry. Wiedzą, że nie jest tak dobry jak Erasure lub pieprzona Janet Jackson. Wiedzą, że brytyjska publiczność nie powinna go słuchać. Jak słyszę coś takiego gotuje się we mnie krew! Jeśli nie jesteś siedemnastolatkiem z czapką baseballową założoną tyłem do przodu, to po prostu nie chcą wiedzieć.”
“Syd był geniuszem. Ale nie chciałbym już wracać do tego wykonywania Interstellar Overdrive, godzina po godzinie.”
“Lubię myśleć, że ostrygi wykraczają poza narodowe bariery, Adrian.”
“Nigdy nie byłem basistą. Nigdy na niczym nie grałem. Trochę tylko na gitarze podczas nagrań, i trochę na basie, ponieważ chcę czasem usłyszeć „dźwięk”, jaki wydaję gdy uderzam w strunę gitary basowej (…) Ale nigdy nie interesowałem się grą na basie. Nie jestem zainteresowany grą na instrumentach, i nigdy nie byłem.”
“Byłem dosyć szczęśliwy, stojąc tam i grzmocąc, grając wszystko co tylko potrafiłem – to „frajda”. Dzisiaj widuję czasami młode grupy robiące dokładnie to samo. Teraz chyba nazywa się to „trash”. To znowu to: po prostu dzieciaki, które nie potrafią grać, i wkurzające się wszystkim. To rewelacyjne. To coś, co wszyscy robiliśmy. Znaczy, Dave potrafił trochę grać, ale żaden z pozostałych już nie.”
“Na klubowej scenie utrzymujemy tempo mniej więcej dwa na dziesięć i „musimy bardziej się starać”. Mieliśmy problemy ze sprzętem: nie mogliśmy skłonić systemu P.A. do współpracy, ponieważ gramy ekstremalnie głośno. Szkoda, ponieważ Syd pisze świetne teksty i nikt ich nigdy nie słyszy.”
Waters married Carolyne Christie, the niece of the third Marquess of Zetland
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Released album “Music From The Body”.
It was stolen along with the rest of Pink Floyd's equipment in New Orleans
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Composed – in collaboration with Ron Geesin – Music from The Body, a soundtrack for Roy Battersby's documentary The Body
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Waters married his childhood sweetheart, Judith Trim, a schoolteacher and potter
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Waters became Pink Floyd's principal lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985
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Originally alongside the Rickenbacker 4001, and then exclusively after the Rickenbacker was lost in 1970
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“Cóż, jest schizofrenikiem. I był nim od 1968.”
Co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist
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After a series of aptitude tests suggested he was suited to architecture, he enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture, London, where he met his future Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason and Richard W
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“absolutely accepted by the whole of the international community since 1948”
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Born 1943-09-06.
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