The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

2013/06/09

Roger Waters: To All My Friends in Turkey

Posted: 06/05/20

To all my friends in Turkey

I am with you! We are with you! You are so right to resist the forces of autocracy and repression. It doesn't matter who they are.

If I read the internet right, in your case, you are resisting autocratic religious zealots.

Turkey is your country and we support you and yearn for your freedom, but also, you and your struggle are so important to the rest of the world.

Every time a man or woman or child takes to the streets, and stands up for human rights, for self determination, for democracy, for Mistress Liberty, the rest of the world is in debt.

We are not physically with you in the water cannon's fire, in the tear gas clouds, but we are with you in spirit.

We applaud your stand for we know it is not easy.

Your great country stands at the gateway between east and west. Istanbul is legend in the history of civilization. Your resistance today may well be a turning point between all of us and a return to the dark ages.

THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU ARE DOING TODAY:

With love, and tears, and huge respect,

Roger Waters

From www.huffingtonpost.com

Roger Waters Tour Dates 2013

July 18th - GELREDOME, ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS
July 20th - FESTIVALWEIDE, WERCHTER, BELGIUM
July 23rd - GRADSKI STADION U POLJUDU, SPLIT, CROATIA
July 26th - STADIO EUGANEO, PADOVA, ITALY
July 28th - STADIO OLIMPICO, ROME, ITALY
July 31st - OAKA OLYMPIC STADIUM, ATHENS, GREECE
August 4th - ITU STADYUMU, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
August 7th - O2 ARENA, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
August 9th - COMMERZBANK-ARENA, FRANKFURT, GERMANY
August 11th - PARKEN, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
August 14th - TELENOR ARENA, OSLO, NORWAY
August 15th - TELENOR ARENA, OSLO, NORWAY
August 17th - ULLEVI STADION, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
August 20th - STADION NARODOWY, WARSAW, POLAND
August 23rd - ERNST-HAPPEL-STADION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
August 25th - PUSKAS FERENC STADION, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
August 28th - PIATA CONSTITUTIEI, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
August 30th - VASIL LEVSKI NATIONAL STADIUM, SOFIA, BULGARIA
September 1st - KOMBANK ARENA, BELGRADE, SERBIA
September 4th - OLYMPIASTADION, BERLIN, GERMANY
September 6th - ESPRIT ARENA, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY
September 8th - AMSTERDAM ARENA, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
September 11th - STADION LETZIGRUND, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
September 14th - WEMBLEY STADIUM, LONDON, ENGLAND
September 16th - MANCHESTER ARENA, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
September 18th - AVIVA STADIUM, DUBLIN, IRELAND
September 21st - STADE DE FRANCE, PARIS, FRANCE.

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2013/05/26

Roger Waters Rock in Rio 2006-02-06 Lisboa

Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall

by Dave Thompson (Author)

Available for Pre-order. Book will be released on September 17, 2013.

To some, he is the face behind classic Pink Floyd. To others, he is the temperament behind some of the greatest albums of the rock era. And to others still, he is one of the most original songwriters of a generation that overflows with notable talent. To all, he is an enigma: a rock star who not only eschewed stardom but also spent much of his career railing against it. But to call Roger Waters a mass of contradictions is simply taking the easy way out. He is so much more than that. Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall is the first full biography of the author of The Dark Side of the Moon , Wish You Were Here , and, of course, The Wall . It traces his life from war-torn suburbia to the multitude of wars he has fought since then with his bandmates, with his audience, and most of all with himself. Packed with insight and exclusive interviews with friends and associates, Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall dismantles the wall brick by brick, revealing the man who built it in all his glory.

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George Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitars in recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their future use of the group's name and material. The dispute was settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.

Waters' solo career includes three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) and Amused to Death (1992). In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated movie When the Wind Blows based on the Raymond Briggs' book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most elaborate rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance. In 1996, he was inducted into the US and the UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. 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 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto based on the early French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters in 24 years.

In 2010, he began The Wall Live, a worldwide tour that features a complete performance of The Wall. During this tour, at The O2 Arena in London on 12 May 2011, Gilmour and Mason once again appeared with Waters, Gilmour performing "Comfortably Numb", and Gilmour and Mason joining Waters for "Outside the Wall".

He has been married four times and has three children. In 2004 he became engaged to actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning; the duo married in 2012.