Wednesday 2 June 2010

Introduction to Roger Waters

George Roger Waters was born in September 6, 1943. He is an English rock musician, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer.

He is best known for his famous 1965-1985 career with the band Pink Floyd as their main songwriter,and responsible for the majority of the album concepts (from 1968), one of their chief singers (along with David Gilmour), and bass player. He was also the intelligence behind the majority of many of Pink Floyd's symbols including the Pink Floyd Pigs and the marching hammers.

Following this, he began a reasonably successful solo career releasing three studio albums and staging one of the biggest concerts ever, The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990. In 2005, he unconfined an opera, Ça Ira and rejoined Pink Floyd for a performance at the Live 8 concert in London, on July 2, 2005, for their first public performance together in 24 years.

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