Roger Waters biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Roger Waters

Author Name:

Roger Waters

Born As:

George Roger Waters

Other Names:

George Roger Waters

Born:

6 Sep 1943

Died:





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Singer and songwriter                          
Selected works:

Pink Floyd songs composed solely by Roger Waters:

Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 1967
Julia Dream - 1968
It Would Be So Nice - 1968
Let There Be More Light from A Saucerful of Secrets - 1968
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun from A Saucerful of Secrets - 1968
Corporal Clegg from A Saucerful of Secrets - 1968
Cirrus Minor from Soundtrack from the Film More - 1969
The Nile Song from Soundtrack from the Film More - 1969
Crying Song from Soundtrack from the Film More - 1969
Green is the Colour from Soundtrack from the Film More - 1969
Cymbaline from Soundtrack from the Film More - 1969
Grantchester Meadows from Ummagumma - 1969
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict from Ummagumma - 1969
If from Atom Heart Mother - 1970
Biding My Time from Relics - 1971
San Tropez from Meddle - 1971
Free Four from Obscured by Clouds - 1972
Money from The Dark Side of the Moon - 1973
Brain Damage from The Dark Side of the Moon - 1973
Eclipse from The Dark Side of the Moon - 1973
Have a Cigar from Wish You Were Here - 1975
Welcome to the Machine from Wish You Were Here - 1975
All tracks on Animals except Dogs - 1977
All tracks on The Wall except Young Lust, Comfortably Numb , Run Like Hell and The Trial - 1979
All tracks on The Final Cut - 1983
Embryo from Works - 1983.                          
Mother 
Father Eric Fletcher Waters                          
Inducted into the U.S. and UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd, and received a "Media Event of the Year" award for mounting The Wall Live in Berlin.

In February 2009 he received a "Cinema for Peace" award for The Wall.                          
Member of English heavy rock group Pink Floyd.
The lyrical mastermind behind many of the band's concept albums, especially The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut, as well as being the originator of much of the band's well known symbolism, such as the Pink Floyd pigs.