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Roger Waters (1990)

Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages audio, June 1990

The former Floyd man discusses the problems of producing the upcoming Berlin production of The Wall: German Green Party demands that he plants lupins after the show; Soviet co-operation in using the Red Army Choir; trying to get help from the British military but not being allowed to use an army band, and all the headaches involved in such an ambitious production.

File format: mp3; file size: 19.8mb, interview length: 20' 34" sound quality: ***

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Roger Waters: The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (Harvest)

Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 5 May 1984

THERE IS a latent longing in many an English mega-rock star to become an intellectual seer, to splash garish helpings of philosophy and instructive comments ...

Roger Waters: The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (Columbia); David Gilmour: About Face (Columbia)

Review by Ira Robbins, Record, August 1984

WHEN PINK Floyd stopped creating cabin music for space craft, the group entered an extremely fruitful three album period that remains the pinnacle of their ...

Roger Waters: He's Got The Technology

Profile and Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 12 July 1987

Roger Waters talks to JON SAVAGE about life after Pink Floyd ...

Over The Wall: An interview with Roger Waters

Interview by Chris Salewicz, Q, August 1987

ROGER WATERS assumed leadership of the Pink Floyd in '68, turning them from a fringe festival attraction into the most popular touring group of the ...

Roger Waters: Out of Troubled Waters

Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 20 November 1987

Roger Waters now finds himself in competition with his one-time colleagues in Pink Floyd – he doesn't like it but there are compensations. Mark Cooper ...

Roger Waters: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Richard North, New Musical Express, 5 December 1987

WELCOME TO the latest in Roger's line of grand political concepts, Radio KAOS. An ever proliferating network of seductive allusions, provocative hints, suggestive cross-references. ...

Roger Waters

Interview by Steve Turner, Radio Times, 25 May 1990

RW: I did an interview a couple of years ago for a guy called Red Beard who worked for a radio station in Dallas and ...

Roger Waters (1990) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages transcripts, June 1990

This is a transcript of Martin's 1990 audio interview with the former Floyd man. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Roger Waters: The Wall In Berlin

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 1990

They said it couldn’t be done. The most extravagant reconstruction of The Wall, featuring the most unlikely and impressive cast, the most immodestly proportioned props ...

Roger Waters

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1992

YOU CAN TELL a lot about your view of Roger Waters by your reaction to those terms. As the creative force of Pink Floyd from ...

Pat Leonard: The Song And Dance Debate

Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, February 1992

"MY BACKGROUND and my real musical desires lean far more toward Roger Waters than they do toward Madonna," Miss Ciccone's principal songwriter, keyboardist and MD, ...

Roger Waters: Who the hell does he think he is?

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, November 1992

"SO HOW'S SYD these days?" ...

Which One's Pink? Roger Waters' In The Flesh

Review by Rick McGrath, Culture Court, January 2001

• Sony Music, 2000 • Written by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, in various permutations, with a little help from exPink Floyders Richard Wright and Nick ...

Roger Waters: Off The Wall

Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, March 2003

To some, Roger Waters is the reactionary ogre who destroyed Pink Floyd. To many others, he's one of the few truly intelligent voices in rock ...

The Last Days Of Pink Floyd

Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2004

They called it The Final Cut, and that’s what it was for Pink Floyd – The last album they would make with Roger Waters. For the ...

Roger Waters: O2 Arena, London

Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2008

Roger Waters continues to infuse his work with almost diabolical intensity, writes Adam Sweeting  ...

Roger Waters: Is This The Life We Really Want?

Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 21 June 2017

UNTIL RECENTLY, it seemed that Roger Waters would be content to play out his career taking his incredible Pink Floydian spectacles around the world's enormodomes. But ...

Roger Waters: Fearless

Profile and Interview by Alan Light, MOJO, August 2017

IN JULY 1978, the members of Pink Floyd gathered at Britannia Row, their studio in London. It had been almost exactly a year since the ...

Roger Waters: British Summer Time, Hyde Park

Live Review by Julian Marszalek, Gigwise, 7 July 2018

A patronising two-and-a-half hours delivered in splendid sound and vision ...

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