Waters attended Morley Memorial Junior School in Cambridge and then the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (now Hills Road Sixth Form College) with Syd Barrett, while his future musical partner, David Gilmour, lived nearby on the city's Mill Road, and attended the Perse School. Roger Waters' earliest memory is of the VJ Day celebrations. Following her husband's death, Mary Waters, also a teacher, moved with her two sons to Cambridge and raised them there. On 19 February 2014, Waters unveiled a monument to his father and other war casualties there, and was made an honorary citizen of Anzio. of the 8th Royal Fusiliers died at Aprilia, between Anzio and Rome in Italy, on 18 February 1944, when Roger was five months old. He later changed his stance on pacifism and joined the British Army, and as a 2Lt. In the early years of the Second World War, his father was a conscientious objector who drove an ambulance during the Blitz. His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member. George Roger Waters was born on 6 September 1943, the younger of two boys, to Mary (née Whyte 1913-2009) and Eric Fletcher Waters (1913-1944), in Great Bookham, Surrey. In 2012, Waters married actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning. They had one son together, Jack Fletcher, before getting divorced in 2001. Christie and Waters divorced in 1992, and in 1993, he married Priscilla Phillips. The following year he married Lady Carolyne Christie the marriage produced a son, Harry Waters, a musician who has played keyboards with his father's touring band since 2006, and a daughter, India Waters, who has worked as a model. Waters has been married four times first in 1969 to his childhood sweetheart Judy Trim they had no children together and divorced in 1975. As of 2013, the tour is the highest-grossing of all time by a solo artist. In 2010, he began The Wall Live and in 2011 Gilmour and Mason appeared with him during a performance of the double album in London. 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. Later that year, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Mason, Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event it was the group's first appearance with Waters since 1981. That same year he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution.

As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. 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. Waters' solo career has included three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio K.A.O.S. and Amused to Death. They settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years had passed before he performed with them again. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute with the remaining members over their intended use of the band's name and material. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling acts in the history of popular music as of 2013, they have sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States. Pink Floyd 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. Waters initially served as the group's bassist and co-lead vocalist, but following the departure of Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist and conceptual leader. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist Richard Wright and guitarist, singer and songwriter Syd Barrett. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and composer. Pink Floyd, The Bleeding Heart Band, Marianne Faithfull, Eric Clapton, David Sanborn, Paul Carrack, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Scorpions, Sinéad O'Connor, Jeff Beck, Ron Geesin

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