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Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (English: George Roger Waters; September 6, 1943, Great Bookham, England) is a British rock musician, vocalist, bass guitarist, composer, and poet. He is best known as one of the founders (late 1965) and leaders (from late 1967 until his departure in 1984) of the band Pink Floyd. During the period of his leadership, he was the author of the overwhelming majority of the lyrics and a significant part of the music, as well as the main ideologue of the band and the main author of the group's most conceptual album, The Wall. From the mid-seventies, a clear deterioration in relations between the musicians in the group began, and Waters' share in the composition of albums continued to increase, sometimes reducing the other musicians to the role of arrangers. The consequence of this was the departure of Richard Wright from Pink Floyd in 1981, and on the album The Final Cut, Waters became practically the sole author. In 1985, Waters left the group, deciding that it had exhausted itself. He believed that the collective would be unviable without him, but David Gilmour decided otherwise: he invited a large number of session musicians, returned Richard Wright to the group, and began recording a new album, which caused resolute protest from Waters. An informational skirmish, inevitable in such a case, began between the group and Waters. Waters even filed a lawsuit in order to regain the rights to the name Pink Floyd, but lost the case. Relations between Waters and his former Pink Floyd colleagues were only restored in 2005, when they performed together in the classic lineup at the Live 8 charity concert in London. This concert was the last public performance of the group in a lineup of four musicians. After this, Waters performed together with David Gilmour several times, however, a number of statements by both musicians in the press provide grounds to think that the conflict between them cannot be considered completely resolved. Currently, Roger Waters is engaged in solo projects.