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George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. He is best known as the co-founder of Pink Floyd, initially as their bassist, and later as the band's lead lyricist, co-lead vocalist (along with guitarist David Gilmour), and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985. Waters has been likened as one of the most significant and popular lyricists of his time, and has been recognized for his role in several Pink Floyd albums, especially in the 1970s.
Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983); many songs on the album are attributed to Waters's lyricism and occasional composition. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative and legal differences, Waters abruptly left the band in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material, which was settled out of court in 1987.
Waters's solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution. In December 2014, he recorded a narrative adaption of composer Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire de soldat, which was entitled Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. It was fully released as an album in October 2018. In the 2020s, he made two re-recorded albums: one of home recordings entitled The Lockdown Sessions (2022), and the other a redux of Dark Side of the Moon (2023).
In 1990, Waters staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an attendance of 450,000. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Later in 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd for the Live 8 global awareness event, their only appearance with Waters since 1981. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999. He performed The Dark Side of the Moon for his world tour of 2006–2008, and The Wall Live, his tour of 2010–2013, was the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist at the time.
Waters incorporates political themes in his work and is a prominent supporter of Palestine in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, and describes Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. Elements of his live show and some of his comments, such as his likening of Israel to Nazi Germany, drew accusations of antisemitism, which Waters dismissed as a conflation with anti-Zionism.