Roger Waters

What strikes me most about Roger Waters is that he approached rock music as conceptual architecture rather than entertainment. After Syd Barrett's departure, he turned Pink Floyd into a vehicle for grand, often uncomfortable ideas—alienation, war, the machinery of fame—and somehow made stadiums full of people sing along to them. I don't always agree with his politics, and his combativeness has cost him bandmates and friendships, but I respect an artist who refuses to soften with age. Eighty-plus and still picking fights with power: that stubbornness is, to me, the very essence of what rock and roll once promised to be.

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Name (English)

Roger Waters

Name (Japanese)

ロジャー・ウォーターズ

Reading

ろじゃー・うぉーたーず

Born

September 6, 1943 (age 83)

Origin

Great Bookham, United Kingdom

Height

190 cm

Occupation

composer / singer-songwriter / guitarist / screenwriter / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

High school

Cambridgeshire High School for Boys

University

University of Westminster

• Official sitehttps://rogerwaters.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rogerwaters/
• Xhttps://x.com/rogerwaters
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Waters
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180861

Tags

• composer
• singer-songwriter
• guitarist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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