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May 31, 2020 · Waters sued in 1986 to prevent remaining members Gilmour and Mason from recording or performing as Pink Floyd. Waters told the BBC, "I was wrong" to sue them. Leaving the band wasn't wrong, however. Waters termed the decision "the right thing to do" so that "I could express my ideas unfettered."
The last Pink Floyd performance of The Wall was on 17 June 1981, at Earls Court London, and this was Pink Floyd's last appearance with Waters until the band's brief reunion at 2 July 2005 Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, 24 years later.
Dec 23, 2015 · As Waters famously put it, Pink Floyd was "a spent force creatively" after 1983's The Final Cut, but his former partners clearly disagreed, soldiering on without him for 1987's massively...
Mar 25, 2021 · Pink Floyd's original lineup formed in 1965 in London, with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, and Richard Wright. By 1968 Barrett was out of the band due to his declining mental health, per all music.
Jan 14, 2024 · The most recent was re-writing the band’s classic album “Dark Side of The Moon”. The only time Pink Floyd reunited with Waters was during the Live 8 in 2005. The reason why the singer, bassist and songwriter Roger Waters decided to leave Pink Floyd in 1985 and never returned to the band.
Mar 21, 2016 · Released on March 21, 1983, Waters’ last Pink Floyd album sounds like the record Waters, who left the band not long after The Final Cut came out, needed to create to make his clean break.
Sep 7, 2023 · On Thursday, his 80th birthday, Roger Waters was recognized for transforming Pink Floyd into a musical and economic powerhouse during the 1970s. Even now, he continues to assert his connection...
Nov 11, 2021 · David Gilmour and Nick Mason refused to end Pink Floyd after the exit of Roger Waters, announcing in November 1986 that they had no intention of disbanding.
The founding members of Pink Floyd were Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright, who enrolled at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street in September 1962 to study architecture, [2] and Syd Barrett, two years younger than the rest of the band, who had moved to London in 1964 to study at the Camberwell College of Arts. [3]
May 24, 2012 · That's what Roger Waters said in exasperation as Steve Kroft persisted in asking him about the rise and fall of one of the world's most successful rock bands, Pink Floyd.