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Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the group's main songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985. Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973), ''Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album), Wish You Were Here'' (1975), ''Animals (Pink Floyd album), Animals'' (1977), ''The Wall'' (1979), and ''The Final Cut (album), The Final Cut'' (1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987. Waters's solo work includes the studio albums ''The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking'' (1984), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ça Ira (opera)
''Ça Ira'' (French language, French for "It will be all right", subtitled "There is Hope") is an opera by Roger Waters. It comes in three acts and is a concept album. The album is based on the French language, French libretto co-written by Étienne Roda-Gil, Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gil on the historical subject of the early French Revolution. ''Ça Ira'' was released 26 September 2005, as a double CD album featuring baritone Bryn Terfel, soprano Ying Huang (soprano), Ying Huang, and tenor Paul Groves (tenor), Paul Groves. The album received mixed reviews, with critics praising the composition but criticising its plot and simplicity. History Waters, known for his work in the English rock band Pink Floyd, was approached by friends Étienne Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine Delahaye in 1987, and asked to set their libretto to music. The initial version was completed and recorded by the end of 1988. On hearing it, an impressed François Mitterrand urged the Opéra National de Paris, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amused To Death
''Amused to Death'' is the third studio album by English musician Roger Waters, released 7 September 1992 on Columbia. Produced by Waters and Patrick Leonard, it was mixed in QSound to enhance its spatial feel. The album features Jeff Beck on lead guitar on several tracks. The album's title was inspired by Neil Postman's 1985 book '' Amusing Ourselves to Death.'' In 2015, the album was remixed and re-released with new artwork and in different formats, including a new 5.1 surround sound mix by original engineer James Guthrie, assisted by Joel Plante. Background and production Roger Waters started working on ''Amused to Death'' in 1987 when he first wrote "Perfect Sense."White 1992, p. 5 It was several years before the album was released. ''Amused to Death'' was produced by Patrick Leonard, Waters, and was co-produced with Nick Griffiths in London at The Billiard Room, Olympic Studios, CTS Studios, Angel Recording Studios and Abbey Road Studios. The album was engineered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking
''The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking'' is the debut solo studio album by Roger Waters, bassist/songwriter and co-founder of English rock band Pink Floyd; it was released in 1984. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1995. Concept history and production The concept was originally envisioned by Waters in 1977 and refined in the early 1980s. In its completed form, it rotates around a man's scattered thoughts during his midlife crisis. These are explored on a dream journey during which he takes a road trip through California, commits adultery with a hitchhiker he picks up along the way, attempts to reconcile with his wife by moving to the wilderness, and finally ends up alone but with greater insight into a common human compassion. Along the way he also faces other fears and paranoia. The entire story is framed in real time as a fitful dream taking place in the early morning hours of 4:30:18 am to 5:12:32 am on an unspecifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Roger Waters Band Members
Roger Waters is an English musician and singer-songwriter who started his career as bassist of Pink Floyd. Before his departure from Pink Floyd, he started touring and recording under his own name in 1984. His first tour band featured Waters on vocals, bass and guitar alongside lead guitarist Eric Clapton, rhythm guitarist/bassist Tim Renwick, keyboardist Michael Kamen, organist/bassist Chris Stainton, drummer Andy Newmark, saxophonist Mel Collins, and backing vocalists, Doreen Chanter and Mac and Katie Kissoon, Katie Kissoon. Current members of his band include keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist Jon Carin (from 1999 to 2000 and since 2006), guitarists/vocalists Dave Kilminster (since 2006) and Jonathan Wilson (musician), Jonathan Wilson, bassist/guitarist Gus Seyffert, drummer Joey Waronker (all since 2017), organist Robert Walter (musician), Robert Walter, saxophonist Seamus Blake and backing vocalists Amanda Belair and Shanay Johnson (all since 2022). History 1984–1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Bookham
Great Bookham is a village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of ''Bocham'' ("the village by the beeches"). The Bookhams are surrounded by common land, and Bookham railway station in Church Road, Great Bookham, serves both settlements. The villages are astride the A246, which is the and direct route between the two towns. Once two distinct villages, the Bookhams have long been interconnected with residential roads which give the impression of one large village. On the southern edge of the village is Polesden Lacey, a country house surrounded by more than of grounds. It is owned by the National Trust and open to the public. History According to a charter c.675, the original of which is lost but which exists in a later form, there were granted to the Abbey ''twenty dwellings at Bocham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo and feedback. Trained as a painter, Barrett was musically active for just over ten years. With Pink Floyd, he recorded the first three singles, their debut album '' The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' (1967), part of their second album ''A Saucerful of Secrets'' (1968), and several songs that were not released until years later. In April 1968, Barrett left the band amid speculation of mental illness and his use of psychedelic drugs. He began a brief solo career in 1969 with the single "Octopus", followed by albums '' The Madcap Laughs' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libretto
A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as the Mass (liturgy), Mass, requiem and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet. The Italian language, Italian word (, ) is the diminutive of the word ''wiktionary:libro#Italian, libro'' ("book"). Sometimes other-language cognates, equivalents are used for libretti in that language, ''livret'' for French works, ''Textbuch'' for German and ''libreto'' for Spanish. A libretto is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot. Some ballet historians also use the word ''libretto'' to refer to the 15- to 40-page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Roda-Gil
Étienne Roda-Gil (1 August 1941 in Septfonds, Tarn-et-Garonne, France – 31 May 2004 in Paris) was a songwriter and screenwriter. He was an anarchist and an anarcho-syndicalist. Biography Roda-Gil was born in the Septfonds internment camp to refugees who had fled Francoism at the end of the Spanish Civil War. His father, Antonio Roda Vallès, had been a militant with the CNT and a member of the Durruti column. In the early 1950s the family moved to Antony, a suburb of Paris, where he studied at the Lycée Henri IV. In 1959, when he was called to military service in Algeria, Roda-Gil instead fled to London, where he became active in anarchist and rock-and-roll circles. He returned to France after receiving a reprieve. Roda-Gil participated in the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth and the Situationist International, and was an active participant in the events of May 1968. He met singer Julien Clerc in a café in Paris's Latin Quarter in 1968, and became his songw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Is This The Life We Really Want?
''Is This the Life We Really Want?'' is the fourth solo album by the English rock musician Roger Waters, released on 2 June 2017 by Columbia Records. It was produced by Nigel Godrich, who urged Waters to make a more concise, less theatrical album. It was Waters' first solo album since '' Amused to Death'' (1992), and his first studio work since the opera '' Ça Ira'' (2005).'' '' The album reached number three in the UK and number 11 in the United States. It produced four singles: " Smell the Roses", "Déjà Vu", " The Last Refugee" and "Wait for Her". Recording ''Is This the Life We Really Want?'' was recorded in Los Angeles and London. It was produced by the Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, who met Waters when he produced the 2015 live album '' Roger Waters: The Wall.'' Though Waters had not heard Godrich's work with Radiohead, they got on well and discussed working together. Godrich, a fan of Waters' work with Pink Floyd, was frank with Waters, telling him he found some of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio K
KUOM (770 AM) – branded ''Radio K - Real College Radio'' – is a daytime-only, non-commercial, college radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Owned by the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, the station is operated by students and faculty. It mainly airs alternative rock with other genres of music. The studios are in Rarig Center on the University of Minnesota campus. KUOM is a member of AMPERS, the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations. It receives funding from a number of sources, including donations from listeners. Approximately 40% of the station's funding comes from listener support, while the rest is provided by the state and federal governments, along with the University of Minnesota. KUOM's AM signal operates at 5,000 watts with a non-directional antenna. Its transmitter tower is on the St. Paul - Falcon Heights campus. Due to its low frequency of 770 kHz, combined with the region's excellent soil conductivity, the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Final Cut (album)
''The Final Cut'' is the twelfth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 March 1983 through Harvest and Columbia Records. It comprises unused material from the band's previous studio album, '' The Wall'' (1979), alongside new material recorded throughout 1982. ''The Final Cut'' is the last Pink Floyd album to feature founding member Roger Waters, who went on to leave the band in 1985. It is the only Pink Floyd album without founding member and keyboardist Richard Wright, who had left the band under pressure from Waters after the ''Wall'' sessions. The recording was plagued by conflict; guitarist David Gilmour felt many of the tracks were not worthy of inclusion, but Waters accused him of failing to contribute material himself. The contributions from drummer Nick Mason were limited mostly to sound effects. Waters planned the album as a soundtrack for the 1982 film adaptation of ''The Wall''. With the onset of the Falklands War, he rewrote it as a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
