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Roger Waters Tour Dates

City	Venue	Date		Tickets
Arnhem	Gelredome	Thu	Jul 18 / 13	Find Tickets
Werchter	Werchter Park	Sat	Jul 20 / 13	Find Tickets
Rome	Stadio Olimpico	Sun	Jul 28 / 13	Find Tickets
Athens	Terra Vibe	Wed	Jul 31 / 13	Find Tickets
Istanbul	ITU Stadium	Sat	Aug 03 / 13	Find Tickets
Prague	Synot Tip Arena	Wed	Aug 07 / 13	Find Tickets
Frankfurt	Commerzbank Arena	Fri	Aug 09 / 13	Find Tickets
Copenhagen	Parken	Sun	Aug 11 / 13	Find Tickets
Oslo	Telenor Arena	Wed	Aug 14 / 13	Find Tickets
Oslo	Telenor Arena	Thu	Aug 15 / 13	Find Tickets
Goteborg	Ullevi Stadium	Sat	Aug 17 / 13	Find Tickets
Warsaw	Stadion Narodowy	Tue	Aug 20 / 13	Find Tickets
Vienna	Ernst Happel Stadion	Fri	Aug 23 / 13	Find Tickets
Berlin	Olympiastadion	Wed	Sep 04 / 13	Find Tickets
Dusseldorf	Esprit Arena	Fri	Sep 06 / 13	Find Tickets
Amsterdam	Amsterdam Arena	Sun	Sep 08 / 13	Find Tickets
Zurich	Letzigrund Stadion	Wed	Sep 11 / 13	Find Tickets
London	Wembley Stadium	Sat	Sep 14 / 13	Find Tickets
Manchester	Manchester Arena	Mon	Sep 16 / 13	Find Tickets
Dublin	Aviva Stadium	Wed	Sep 18 / 13	Find Tickets

Roger Waters Biography

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George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved international success with the concept albums ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', ''Wish You Were Here'', ''Animals'', ''The Wall'' and ''The Final Cut''. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitar on recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their intended use of the band's name and material. They settled the dispute out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years had passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. They have sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States . Waters' solo career has included three studio albums: ''The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking'' (1984), ''Radio K.A.O.S.'' (1987) and ''Amused to Death'' (1992). In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated film ''When the Wind Blows'' based on the Raymond Briggs' book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most extravagant rock concerts in history, ''The Wall – Live in Berlin'', with an official attendance of 200,000. In 1996, he was inducted into the US and the UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' in its entirety for his world tour of 2006–2008. In 2005, he released ''Ça Ira'', an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto based on the French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters in 24 years. In 2010, he began The Wall Live, a worldwide tour that features a complete performance of ''The Wall''. During this tour, at The O2 Arena in London on 12 May 2011, Gilmour and Mason once again appeared with Waters, Gilmour performing "Comfortably Numb", and Gilmour and Mason joining Waters for "Outside the Wall". Waters' tour topped international concert ticket sales for the first half of 2012, selling more than 1.4 million tickets globally. Four times married, he is the father of three children. In 2004, he became engaged to actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning; the couple married in 2012.

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