Madonna, Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen Log Highest Grossing Tours of 2012 : December 17, 2012

Madonna had the highest grossing tour of 2012, with Bruce Springsteen and Roger Waters coming in at the numbers two and three spots, respectively. Madonna’s MDNA tour grossed ...

Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters Step Up for Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert : November 15, 2012

As the Northeast continues to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, a new concert has been announced to raise money to aid the victims of the disaster. Bruce Springst ...

The Wall Tour Continues as Roger Waters Heads to Europe : November 13, 2012

When Roger Waters played the last date of “The Wall” tour earlier this year, he said that his touring career was over. Turns out, that wasn’t exactly true, as he will once ag ...

Roger Waters, Grace Potter Join ‘Love for Levon’ Event : September 26, 2012

Grace Potter and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters are among the latest additions to the already star-studded “Love for Levon” concert, which will pay tribute to the late Levon Helm, ...

Roger Waters Takes ‘The Wall’ Tour to Stadiums in 2012 : September 29, 2011

One of last year’s most successful tours was Roger Waters resurrecting ‘The Wall.’ Though he didn’t have his Pink Floyd cohorts to keep him company onstage, Waters sold out ...

U2, Roger Waters Lead Concert Industry to 11% Increase in 2011 : July 11, 2011

We already learned this week that albums sales in 2011 have increased, which is the first increase since 2004. Now the music industry has just received more good news. For the firs ...

Pink Floyd Reunites at Roger Waters Concert in London : May 13, 2011

Thursday night, the surviving Pink Floyd members reunited onstage at O2 Arena in London during a stop from the Wall Tour of Rogers Waters. It's just the second time Waters, David G ...

Roger Waters Brings ‘The Wall’ to North America this Fall : April 12, 2010

Rumors have been circulating for years that fabled Pink Floyd principle Roger Waters would resurrect “The Wall” and take it on the road, performing it cover-to-cover. Well that ...

roger waters Biography

Roger Waters, the English musician, songwriter-singer and composer, was born in Leatherhead, Surrey on September 6, 1943. He was one of the founders of the band Pink Floyd and served as the group's co-lead vocalist and bassist. In 1968 Syd Barrett left the band and Waters became Pink Floyd's conceptual leader and principal songwriter and lyricist. During the 1970s Pink Floyd achieved worldwide success through their concept albums “The Wall,” “Animals,” “Wish You Were Here” and “The Dark Side of the Moon.” In addition to playing bass guitar, Waters also experimented with tape loos and synthesisers and in concerts and recordings played rhythm guitar.

In 1985, Waters left the band due to creative differences. He and the remaining band members engaged in a legal battle over the band's future use of Pink Floyd's material and name. In 1987, a settlement was reached out of court. Waters didn't perform again with Pink Floyd for 18 years.

Over the course of his solo career Waters has released three studio albums: 1984's “The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking,” 1987's “Radio K.A.O.S.” and 1992's “Amused to Death. In 1990, Waters staged “The Wall- Live in Berlin,” one of the all-time largest rock concerts, with approximately 200,00 fans. Since 1999 Waters, as a soloist, has toured extensively. On his world tours from 2006 to 2008 he performed the entire “The Dark Side of the Moon” album. In 2005, Waters reunited with David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason from Pink Floyd and performed at Live 8's charity concert. In 2010, Waters embarked on his worldwide tour “The Wall Live,” which features “The Wall” performed in its entirety.