Roger Waters Biography and Timeline — Page 2

Pink Floyd

Roger Waters pre-empts Punk by spitting at the audience, stunned by his own actions, he starts to think of building a polythene wall between himself and his audience

Knebworth Festival

Knebworth Festival, Pink Floyd premiere "Wish You Were Here" with the help of Spitfires, pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage, probably the most spectacular gig of the decade

Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here is released; black, shrink-wrapped, anonymous

Wish You Were Here Artwork Created

The album artwork used imagery of absence and alienation, including a staged photograph of a burning businessman.

Pink Floyd

Press launch for "Animals" at Battersea Power Station

Pink Floyd

"Animals" gets a world exclusive airing on the John Peel Show

In the Flesh Tour

Pink Floyd begin the In the Flesh tour supporting Animals

Pink Floyd

"Animals" is released

Montreal Spitting Incident

Waters spits at a fan during the tour, helping inspire the concept behind The Wall

In the Flesh Tour Begins

Pink Floyd launched an arena tour supporting Animals, featuring elaborate inflatables and stadium scale staging.

Montreal Concert Inspires Wall

Waters' alienation during a stadium performance in Montreal helped inspire the psychological barrier central to The Wall.

Pink Floyd

"Another Brick In The Wall Part II" is released, it goes straight to number one in the UK chart. It is the band's only number one

Pink Floyd

"The Wall" is finally released

The Wall

Pink Floyd release The Wall, dominated by Waters's narrative concept

Pink Floyd

"Dark Side Of The Moon" breaks the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top 100

Wall Stage Production Opens

The Wall concert production opened with a giant barrier constructed between performers and audience during the show.

The Wall

Pink Floyd play Earls Court, the performance is filmed for inclusion in the film of "The Wall"

The Wall

The world premiere of "The Wall" takes place at The Empire, Leicester Square

Wall Feature Film Premieres

Alan Parker's film Pink Floyd The Wall adapted the album's narrative through dramatic scenes and Gerald Scarfe's animation.

BAFTA

Roger Waters receives a BAFTA award for "Another Brick In The Wall Part II"

Film

Roger Waters receives a BAFTA award for "Another Brick In The Wall Part II"

BAFTA

Roger Waters receives a BAFTA award for "Another Brick In The Wall Part II"

Pink Floyd

The last Waters-Gilmour-Mason collaboration, The Final Cut, is released

The Final Cut

Pink Floyd release The Final Cut, the final album of the Waters-led period

Final Cut Album Released

The Final Cut appeared as a largely Waters driven work addressing war memory and contemporary politics.

5.01 a.m. (The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking)

Roger Waters releases his first solo single, "5.01 a.m. (The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking)"

The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking

Roger Waters releases his first solo album, "The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking"

Departure

Waters declares that he has left Pink Floyd and later contests use of the band name

Role range: 1965-1985

Pink Floyd

A press statement is issued stating that Pink Floyd intend to continue using the name without Roger Waters and are recording their next album

Waters contributes songs and a score

Waters contributes songs and a score to the soundtrack of the movie When the Wind Blows, based on the Raymond Briggs book of the same name

Pink Floyd

Roger Waters lawyers issue a statement that Roger believes himself to be the creative driving force behind Pink Floyd and therefore he will contest the use of the name by anyone else

Waters released another concept album, Radio

Waters released another concept album, Radio K.A.O.S., about a man named Billy who can hear radio waves in his head

Pink Floyd

Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters sign an agreement ending the years of dispute, Waters will receive a royalty payment every time that any images created during his time with the band are used

Berlin Festival

400,000 people watch Roger Waters stage "The Wall" in Berlins Potsdamerplatz with a variety of guests

Berlin Festival

"The Wall - Live In Berlin" is released

Pink Floyd

Roger Waters issues a High Court writ against the band for breach of copyright, he claims $ 35,000 compensation for illegal use of the inflatable pig, one of his concepts, which has been used on their latest tour

Concert

The concert takes place on Potsdamer Platz, part of the former "no-mans land" of the Berlin Wall, and features many guest superstars: The Band, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Van Morrison, Sin‚ad OConnor, The Scorpions, Marianne Faithfull, and Joni Mitchel. After the Berlin Wall came down Waters stages The Wall Concert in Berlin to commemorate the end of the division between East and West Germany

Amused to Death

Waters releases "Amused to Death", about the corrupting, desensitising nature of television

Pink Floyd

The "Shine On" box set is released

Pink Floyd

To mark the Twentieth anniversary of the release of "Dark Side Of The Moon", the album is re-mastered, re-packaged and re-released