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2012/12/30

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2012/12/28

Waters vows to make new album - Classic Rock Magazine

MARTIN KIELTY at November 7 2012

Roger Waters has vowed he’ll make another album after starting to write during lunch breaks on his The Wall world tour.

The former Pink Floyd man has been toying with the idea of retirement ever since he announced the ambitious global trek, which included an emotional onstage reunion with former bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason.

Waters plans to call the album Heartland and the work will explore concepts of religious extremism.

He tells Rolling Stone: “The Heartland idea came from a song I wrote 15 years ago, or longer even, which was a song I wrote for a movie. A really, really bad movie called Michael that was about an angel.”

He’s been working on a track which he hasn’t titled yet. “I’m not sure what it would be called but I’ll tell you what the first line is: ‘If I had been God…’”

Waters continues: “I’m absolutely determined to make another album. I think this new song may give me the chance to do that.

“It provides a cornerstone and a core idea for me to write about. I’m sort of obsessed with the idea that religious extremism is a maligned factor in most of our lives.”

He’s said Gilmour and Mason won’t appear on the album, with whom he last worked on 1983 anti-war record The Final Cut.

He believes many of its messages are still valid, explaining: “We’re determined to continue to fight against the onslaught, if you like, of a society driven mad by the headlong rush to maximise the bottom line.”

Water’s The Wall tour was the biggest-grossing travelling show of 2012, taking $131.4million in the six months up to the end of May. When he launched the project in 2010 he said it would be his last, but later explained: “I haven’t made up my mind – I’ve become very enamoured of the outdoor show. It’s such fun to do that I think I’ve got some more in me.”

From www.classicrockmagazine.com

Roger Waters extends 'The wall' tour into 2013, works on new album - rckol.com

Nov 9, 2012 - Roger Waters is looking both back and forward. The singer has announced a string of dates for his "The wall" tour for 2013: “I’m extremely glad to be playing The Wall in Europe again", he wrote on his website. "It’s going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the Arena shows. I’ve had to rethink the whole thing about stadiums. This wide wall stadium show couldn’t have been done 40 years ago. We couldn’t have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can.” Head over there for the complete tour itinerary.

Waters has also revelead he's working on a new album, to be titled "Heartland": it would be his first set of new song since 19920s "Amused to death"

From www.rockol.com

Roger Waters and Ricky Gervais at Stand Up for Heroes

Zoom.in UK - Roger Waters and Ricky Gervais at Stand Up for Heroes on MUZU.TV.

2012/12/23

12-12-12 The Concert for Sandy Relief will be released on January 21, 2013 on CD.

This is a double CD of music from the “12-12-12” benefit concert, presented by Chase, including Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, The Who and Paul McCartney.

Tracklist:

1. Land Of Hope and Dreams (Live) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

2. Wrecking Ball (Live) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

3. Another Brick In The Atlantic Wall (Live) Roger Waters

4. Us And Them (Live) Roger Waters

5. Comfortably Numb (Live) Roger Waters feat. Eddie Vedder

6. Hallelujah (Sandy Relief Version) (Live) Adam Sandler and Paul Shaffer

7. It's My Life (Live) Bon Jovi
8. Wanted Dead Or Alive (Live) Bon Jovi
9. Got To Be Better In A Little While (Live) Eric Clapton
10. Crossroads (Live) Eric Clapton
11. You Got Me Rocking (Live) The Rolling Stones
12. Jumpin Jack Flash (Live) The Rolling Stones
13. No One (Live) Alicia Keys
14. Who Are You (Live) The Who
15. Baba O'Riley (Live) The Who
16. Love Reign O'er Me (Live) The Who
17. Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) (Live) Billy Joel
18. Moving Out (Anthony's Song) (Live) Billy Joel
19. You May Be Right (Live) Billy Joel
20. Viva La Vida (Live) Chris Martin
21. Losing My Religion (Live) Chris Martin feat. Michael Stipe
22. Us Against The World (Live) Chris Martin
23. Helter Skelter (Live) Paul Mccartney
24. Empire State Of Mind (Live) Alicia Keys

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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.