Roger Waters
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Audio interviews
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.
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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. ...
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 couldnt be done. The most extravagant reconstruction of The Wall, featuring the most unlikely and impressive cast, the most immodestly proportioned props ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
see also Pink Floyd
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