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George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey) is an England|English rock music|rock musician. He is best known as the bass guitar|bass player, main songwriter, and a lead vocalist of the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985. Following his split with Pink Floyd in 1985, Waters began a moderately successful solo career, releasing three studio albums, one soundtrack, and staging one of the largest concerts ever, ''The Wall Concert in Berlin'' in 1990. In 2005 he released an opera, ''Ça Ira'', and joined Pink Floyd at the Live 8 concert in London for their first public performance with Waters in 24 years.
Biography
Early years (1943–1965)
Born in Great Bookham, Surrey, Waters grew up in Cambridge. His father Eric Fletcher Waters fought in World War II and died in combat Operation Shingle|at Anzio in 1944, when Waters was only five months old. Waters would refer or allude to the loss of his father throughout his work, from "Corporal Clegg" (''A Saucerful Of Secrets'', 1968), through "Free Four" (''Obscured By Clouds'', 1972) and the sombre "When the Tigers Broke Free", first used in the movie version of ''Pink Floyd The Wall (film)|The Wall''.
Waters and Syd Barrett attended the Morley Memorial Junior School on Hills Road, Cambridge, and later both attended the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (no... read all
