9 September 1944, Great Bookham, Cambridge, England. Waters career as co-founder of Pink Floyd enabled him to be part of one of the most successful rock bands of all time. His astonishing peaks during a career of 17 years were Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) and The Wall (1979). Waters' lyrics have attempted to exorcise the personal anguish caused by the death of his father during World War II, while also addressing the pressures of rock stardom and the resulting alienation of the artist from his audience. The introspective nature of these lyrics often led to accusations of indulgence, which in part led to the break-up on the Pink Floyd in 1983. His first official solo album (he had previously recorded a soundtrack album in 1970 with avant garde composer Ron Geesin) was the crudely packaged The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking, which marked a departure from the bitter lyrics he had recently produced with the Pink Floyd. Eric Clapton guested on the album. Waters wrote and performed the soundtrack to the Raymond Briggs animated anti-nuclear war film, When The Wind Blows in 1986.

Radio K.A.O.S. followed in 1987, together with the excellent single "The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)'. In July 1990, as part of a project in aid of the Leonard Cheshire Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief, Waters masterminded a massive performance of The Wall by the remains of the Berlin Wall. This ambitious event was televised around the world and featured a host of star guests including performances by Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper, Sin‚ad O'Connor and Joni Mitchell, plus actors Albert Finney and Tim Curry. Refusing to stray from his familiar themes, Waters dedicated 1992"s Amused To Death to the memory of a late World War II soldier. During this time Waters was in bitter litigation with other members of his former group as he unsuccessfully tried to stop them using the Pink Floyd name. Time, if nothing else, has still to find a way of healing the rift between Waters and the remaining members of the Pink Floyd. Although no new recordings were in sight Waters did tour the USA during the summer of 1999. Several of the performances were later compiled on In The Flesh.