Roger Waters

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自1965年成立至1983年，Roger Waters一直是Pink Floyd的创作主脑。求学时期，他在周末的艺术课程中认识了其后成为Pink Floyd 主音兼结他手的Syd Barrett。中学毕业后俩人分道扬镳，Roger Waters迁往伦敦并于Regent Street Polytechnic修读建筑，在此他遇上鼓手Nick Mason及键琴手Richard Wright，三人决定组织乐队，Roger自己则负责低音结他及主唱；其后Syd Barrett加入并正式成立Pink Floyd乐队。

由初成立至1972年间，Pink Floyd的作品尚算成功，但1973年3月推出的 “The Dark Side of The Moon” 专辑，却为Pink Floyd带来商业上的重要突破；这张专辑更成为摇滚史上其中一张最成功的大碟 (Roger Waters 独自撰写此碟的Top 10作品 “Money”)。在Pink Floyd往后推出的多张专辑中，Roger Waters肩负的角色越见重要，于1975年9月推出的 “Wish You Were Here” 专辑中，他负责撰写所有作品的歌词及协助作曲。1977年2月面世的专辑 “Animals” 及1979年11月推出的 “The Wall” 大碟中，他撰写大部份作品，

而1983年3月推出的 “The Final Cut”，他更负责全盘创作。每张专辑均达百万销量，“The Wall” 的骄人销量更可媲美 “The Dark Side of The Moon” (来自 “The Wall”专辑、销量达金唱片的冠军单曲 “Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2更由Roger Waters一手包办所有创作)。

The Final Cut专辑推出后，Pink Floyd 宣布拆伙，队中成员各自作个人发展。Roger Waters于1984年4月推出首张个人专辑 “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” 再战乐坛并取得金唱片销量。1987年6月，他推出第二张个人专辑 “Radio K.A.O.S.”，继而展开大碟宣传之旅。

随德国柏林围墙倒下，Roger Waters于1990年7月21日率领群星在柏林举行 “The Wall” 演唱会，这次历史性演出更被拍摄及现场录音，随后辑录成为1990年9月面世的大碟 “The Wall: Live in Berlin”。1992年9月，Roger Waters继续发展其个唱事业并推出第三张专辑 “Amused to Death”。

整个90年代，Roger Waters将大部份时间投放在关于法国大革命的歌剧《Ca Ira》上。1999年7、8月，他展开12年来首个美国巡回演唱之旅，由于反应热烈演唱会空前成功，他于2000年6、7月再度踏足美国举行第二轮美洲演唱，这个演唱会之旅为日后推出的双CD专辑 “In the Flesh Live” 提供了大量作品。此后，Roger Waters沉寂了好一阵子，直至2002年5月，他在国际乐坛只推出了一张精选专辑 “Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Vol.1” (此碟并没有在美国发行)。2005年7月，Roger Waters 与David Gilmour, Nick Mason 及Richard Wright特别为于伦敦海德公园举行的大型筹款演唱会 “Live 8” 进行只此一次的 Pink Floyd “重组” 演出。2005年10月，《Ca Ira》专辑面世并荣登美国权威音乐杂志 Billboard古典榜冠军。

Roger Waters was a primary creative force in Pink Floyd from 1965 to 1983. He first met Syd Barrett, who would become the band's lead singer and guitarist, during his school days when both attended a Saturday art class. He moved to London to study architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic and there formed a band with drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright; he played bass and sang. Barrett joined them, forming Pink Floyd. Though Barrett was the band's main songwriter at first, Waters wrote or co-wrote three songs on the first LP, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (August 1967), including the sole composition &Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk.& By the time of the group's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (June 1968), Barrett had been replaced by David Gilmour and Waters had begun to take a more prominent role, contributing three songs and one co-composition to the LP. He also wrote or co-wrote all but one of the tunes for the band's soundtrack to the film More (July 1969), while his first solo work came on Ummagumma (November 1969), a two-LP set that consisted of one disc of live recordings and a second disc on which each bandmember contributed his own tracks. As of Atom Heart Mother (October 1970), Pink Floyd began to work up its material as a group, though Waters still contributed the sole composition &If.& Working with Ron Geesin, he wrote the soundtrack for The Body (December 1970), his first work outside Pink Floyd. The band's next album, Meddle (November 1971), was entirely group written. But Waters wrote or co-wrote eight of the ten selections on Obscured by Clouds (June 1972), Pink Floyd's soundtrack for the film The Valley.

Pink Floyd's recordings were moderately successful through 1972. But The Dark Side of the Moon (March 1973), for which Waters wrote all the lyrics and some of the music, was a commercial breakthrough that became one of the most successful albums in rock history. (He was the sole author of the album's Top Ten hit, &Money.&) He took an increasingly dominant role in the writing of subsequent Pink Floyd albums, writing all the lyrics and collaborating on the music for Wish You Were Here (September 1975), writing most of Animals (February 1977) and The Wall (November 1979), and writing all of The Final Cut (March 1983). All were million sellers, with The Wall in particular rivaling the sales of The Dark Side of the Moon. (Waters was the sole author of &Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2,& a gold, number one single drawn from The Wall.)

Following the release of The Final Cut, Pink Floyd broke up and its members launched solo careers. Waters re-emerged with The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (April 1984), which went gold. He followed with Radio K.A.O.S. (June 1987) and went on tour to promote the release. Meanwhile, David Gilmour's solo album About Face (February 1984) was also a gold seller, but he was discouraged by that showing and recruited Mason and Wright to re-form Pink Floyd. Waters sued, seeking an injunction to prevent the trio from touring as Pink Floyd without him, but he lost the case, and the Gilmour-led Pink Floyd went on to tour and recorded successfully without him.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Waters organized an all-star performance of The Wall in Berlin on July 21, 1990. It was filmed and recorded, resulting in the album The Wall: Live in Berlin (September 1990). He released a third solo album, Amused to Death (September 1992), but did not tour, though he made an appearance at a benefit concert in 1993. He spent much of the 1990s working on an opera, Ça Ira, set during the French Revolution. But in July and August 1999, he mounted his first U.S. tour in 12 years. It was so successful that he returned for a second leg in June and July 2000, and the concerts served as the basis for the two-CD set In the Flesh Live. Waters was not heard from for several years after that, although a collection of singles and album tracks, Flickering Flame: The Solo Years, Vol. 1, appeared internationally (but not in the U.S.) in May 2002. In July 2005, Waters reunited with Gilmour, Mason, and Wright for a one-off Pink Floyd performance at the Live 8 benefit concert in London's Hyde Park. Ça Ira finally emerged on disc in October 2005 and topped the Billboard magazine classical chart.

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