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George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English rock musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He gained fame as the principal songwriter, lyricist, bass player, co-lead vocalist and one of the founding members of the rock band Pink Floyd. Following the departure of Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett in March 1968, Waters became the band's primary lyricist, principal songwriter and dominant creative figure. The group achieved success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. Following creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985, and began a legal battle with the remaining band members regarding their continued use of the "Pink Floyd" name and material.

Waters pursued a solo career which has included three studio albums; The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), and Amused to Death (1992). In 1990 Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall - Live in Berlin, on the vacant terrain between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Etienne Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine Delahaye's French libretto based on the historical subject of the early French Revolution. Waters reunited with Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour for what would be a final one-off performance at the 2005 Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, Pink Floyd's only appearance with Waters since their final performance of The Wall at Earls Court London 24 years earlier.

He 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. In April 2010, Waters announced The Wall Live tour, which will include a complete performance of The Wall, starting in North America in September 2010 and tentatively ending in Europe in June 2011. Waters confirmed on Facebook that Gilmour will perform "Comfortably Numb" for at least one of his The Wall Live shows.

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George Roger Waters-Achievements

Achievements

Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), is one of the most commercially successful albums of all time, it spent 723 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. It still sells around 5,000 units every week, and is the "second best-selling album of all time worldwide".
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ranks The Dark Side of the Moon number 21 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, it is one of the top three best-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 ranked number 375 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
It is estimated that Pink Floyd has sold over 200 million albums worldwide^{[191][192][193]} 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 1992and number 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart in the US.
Waters' first solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, has been certified Gold by the RIAA.
Waters opera, Ça Ira reached number 5 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart in the US.
Waters was inducted into the US and UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd.
In February 2009, he received a "Cinema for Peace" award for The Wall.

George Roger Waters-Marriages and children

Marriages and children

Waters married his childhood sweetheart, Judy Trim, in 1969. The marriage was dissolved in 1976. Waters had a son, Harry, and a daughter, India, with his second wife, Lady Carolyne Christie, the niece of the Marquess of Zetland. They married in 1976 and divorced in 1992. Waters married American actress Pricilla Phillips in 1993. They had a son, Jack Fletcher, in 1997. The marriage ended in 2001. As of 2005, Waters is engaged to filmmaker Laurie Durning.

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:

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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's not a case of whether or not I agree with fox hunting, but I will defend to the hilt their right to take part in it."

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Waters opposes the separation 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)::

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The loss of a father is the central prop upon which (The Wall) 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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Prior to Tony Blair's Labour Party government, Waters had been a lifelong Labour supporter. His lyrics to the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut were critical of the then Conservative Party government and mention Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by name.

Equipment and instruments

Waters primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the electric bass guitar.^{[175][176][177]} He briefly played a Höfner bass that was replaced with a Rickenbacker RM-1999/4001S, Fireglo with rosewood fretboard, used from 1966–1969, then lost in a 1970 equipment van heist in New Orleans. Circa 1970, he switched to a Fender Precision Bass. Black with white pickguard, maple fretboard. First seen at a concert in Hyde park July 1970, this guitar was rarely used prior to April 1972 when it became his de facto stage guitar. Circa 1976, Gilmour's guitar tech Phil Taylor replaced the white pickguard with a black one, this is visible on The Wall tours, In the Flesh and The Dark Side of the Moon Live Tour. During the Wall sessions and tour Waters had three of them. Waters uses Samson wireless systems with his basses. 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 uses delay, tremolo, chorus, panning and phaser effects in his music.

Not only a bassist and vocalist,Waters experimented with the EMS Synthi A and the EMS VCS 3 synthesisers on Pink Floyd tracks such as On the Run.^[181] Waters also plays electric rhythm guitar, using Fender and Washburn guitars, as on Wish You Were Here and Animals, tracks "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" part 9 and "Sheep".He played Martin, Ovation, and Washburn, acoustic guitars on several Pink Floyd tracks from The Final Cut and on the track "Mother" from The Wall. He used synthesiser and tape effects, on tracks such as "Welcome to the Machine". Waters used a Binson Echorec 2 echo effect on his bass guitar for the Pink Floyd track One Of These Days. According to Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour, many of the bass guitar tracks on Pink Floyd albums were played by him, not Waters.

Friday, July 30, 2010