Roger Waters discography

Roger Waters discography
Roger Waters performing at London's O2 Arena on 18 May 2008
Studio albums	3
Live albums	3
Compilation albums	1
Singles	14

Roger Waters' primary instrument is the electric bass guitar. He briefly played a Höfner bass but replaced it with a Rickenbacker RM-1999/4001S, until around 1970 when he switched to Fender Precision basses. He often plays bass using a pick but is also known to play fingerstyle. Not only a bassist and vocalist, Waters has experimented with the EMS Synthi A and VCS 3 synthesisers and has played electric rhythm and acoustic guitars in recordings and in concert. Throughout his career he has used Selmer, WEM, Hiwatt and Ashdown amplifiers, also employing delay, tremolo, chorus, panning and phaser effects in his music.

His solo career has included three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), and Amused to Death (1992). The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, has been certified Gold by the RIAA.^[1] Amused to Death is Waters' most critically acclaimed solo recording to date, garnering some comparison to his previous work with Pink Floyd.^[2] Waters described the record as "…a stunning piece of work", ranking the album with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall as one of the best of his career.^[3] The album had one hit, the song "What God Wants, Part 1", which reached number 35 in the UK in September 1992 and number 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart in the US.^[4] Amused to Death was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry.^[5] Jeff Beck played lead guitar on many of the album's tracks, which were recorded with an impressive cast of studio musicians at ten different studios.^[6] Sales of Amused to Death topped out at around one million and there was no tour in support of this album. Waters would first perform material from it seven years later during his In the Flesh tours.^[7]

In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the movie When the Wind Blows based on the Raymond Briggs book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, on the vacant terrain between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance.^[2] In 1996, Waters was inducted into the US and 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 tours of 2006–2008. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Etienne Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine Delahaye's libretto about the early French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with other members of Pink Floyd—Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour—for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, Pink Floyd's only appearance with Waters since their performance of The Wall at Earls Court in London 24 years earlier.^[8] In 2010, he commenced The Wall Live tour.

Albums

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions									Certifications
		US [9]	NLD [10]	SWE [11]	NOR [12]	SWI [13]	AUS [14]	UK [15]	GER [16]	NZ [17]
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking	Released: 30 April 1984 Label: Harvest, Columbia Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL[18]	31	1	3	4	12	30	13	49	14	US: Gold[1]
Radio K.A.O.S.	Released: 15 June 1987 Label: EMI, Columbia Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL [19]	50	31	12	6	20	33	25	58	13	CAN: Gold[20] UK: Silver[21]
Amused to Death	Released: 1 September 1992[22] Label: Columbia Formats: CD, CS, LP	21	1	10	2	12	14	8	4	6	AUS: Gold[23] CAN: Gold[20] UK: Silver[21]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Soundtracks

Title	Album details
Music from The Body (with Ron Geesin)	Released: 28 November 1970 Label: Harvest, EMI Format: CD, CS, LP, DL[24]
When the Wind Blows (with The Bleeding Heart Band)	Released: 1986[25] Label: Virgin Format: CD, CS, LP

Live albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions											Certifications
		US [9]	NLD [10]	SWE [11]	NOR [12]	SWI [13]	AUS [14]	AUT [26]	UK [15]	GER [16]	NZ [17]	POL [27]
The Wall – Live in Berlin	Released: August 1990[28] Label: Mercury Formats: CD, SACD, CD+DVD, CS, LP, DL[29]	56	15	34	17	11	10	25	27	10	4	47	CAN: 2× Platinum[20]
In the Flesh – Live	Released: 5 December 2000[30] Label: Columbia Formats: CD, SACD, CD+DVD, CS, DL[31]	136	10	10	2	15	100	—	170	99	24	13
Roger Waters: The Wall	Released: 20 November 2015 Label: Legacy Formats: CD, CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray	134	19		11	20	46	29	53	22	38
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		NOR [12]	SWI [13]	GER [16]	POL [27]
Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1	Released: 30 April 2002[32] Label: Columbia, Sony Music Format: CD, DL[33]	21	62	53	43
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Operas

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions		Certifications
		POL [27]	FRA [34]
Ça Ira	Released: 4 October 2005[35] Label: Sony Classical, Columbia Formats: CD, CD+DVD, SACD, DL[36]	12	187	POL: Platinum[37]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other albums

Title	Album details
Pros and Cons (The Interviews)	Released: 7 April 2015[38] Label: Euromax Formats: CD

Video

Video albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions			Certifications
		US [39]	SWE [40]	NLD [41]
The Wall – Live in Berlin	Released: 1990 Label: PolyGram Music Video Formats: Laserdisc, VHS, DVD	6	8	—	US: Gold[1] CAN: Platinum[20] BRA: Gold[42]
In the Flesh – Live	Released: 5 December 2000 Label: Columbia Formats: VHS, DVD	19	1	1	US: Platinum[1] POL: Gold[43] GER: Gold[44]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Box sets

Title	Album details	Certifications
The Collection	Released: 2011 Label: Columbia Formats: 7CD+DVD

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions

Year	Title	Peak chart positions		Album
		UK [15]	US Main. [4]
1984	"5:01am (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking)"	76	17	The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
	"5:06am (Every Stranger's Eyes)"	—	—
1987	"Radio Waves"	74	12	Radio K.A.O.S.
	"Sunset Strip"	—	15
	"The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)"	54	—
1988	"Who Needs Information"	—	—
1990	"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (with Cyndi Lauper)	82	—	The Wall – Live in Berlin
	"The Tide Is Turning" (with Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison and Paul Carrack)	—	—
1992	"What God Wants, Part 1"	35	4	Amused to Death
	"The Bravery of Being Out of Range"	—	—
1993	"Three Wishes"	—	—
2004	"To Kill the Child/Leaving Beirut"	—	—	non-album single
2007	"Hello (I Love You)" (Roger Waters & Howard Shore)	—	—	The Last Mimzy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2010	"We Shall Overcome"	—	—	non-album single
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Collaborations and other appearances

Year	Album/single	Collaborator	Comment
1999	The Legend of 1900	Ennio Morricone	The song "Lost Boys Calling" performed by Ennio Morricone feat. Eddie Van Halen and Roger Waters[45]
2000	Vagabond Ways	Marianne Faithfull	The song "Incarceration of a Flower Child" is written by Roger Waters, who also performs bass and keyboards[46]
2007	Live Earth: The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis	Various Artists	The album features Roger Waters performing the song "Another Brick in the Wall Part II"
2013	Love for Levon: Benefit To Save The Barn	Various Artists	The album features Roger Waters performing the songs "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (with My Morning Jacket and G.E. Smith) and "Wide River To Cross" (with G.E. Smith)
2013	12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief	Various Artists	The album features Roger Waters performing the songs "Another Brick in the Atlantic Wall Part I, II & III" (the actual songs are "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" and jam based on the song), "Us and Them" and "Comfortably Numb" (with Eddie Vedder)

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