Roger Waters
Birth Name: George Roger Waters
Birthday: September 6, 1942
Birth Place: Great Bookham, Surrey, England
Other Bands: The Bleeding Heart Band
Best Selling Solo Album: Amused To Death (1992)
Biggest Solo Hit Single: What God Wants Pt. 1 (1992)
Quote: “I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.”
David Gilmour
Birth Name: David Jon Gilmour
Birthday: March 6, 1946
Birth Place: Cambridge, England
Other Bands: Jokers Wild, the Orb
Best Selling Solo Album: On An Island (2006)
Biggest Solo Hit Single: Arnold Layne (2006)
Quote: “I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation."
Nick Mason
Birth Name: Nicholas Berkeley Mason
Birthday: January 27, 1944
Birth Place: Edbaston, Birmingham, England
Other Bands: Mason & Fenn, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
Best Selling Solo Album: Nick Mason's Ficticious Sports (1981)
Quote: “I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious."
Richard Wright
Birth Name: Richard William Wright
Birthday: July 28, 1943
Birth Place: Hatch End, Middlesex, England
Died: September 15, 200S
Other Bands: Zee
Best Selling Solo Album: Wet Dream (1978)
Quote: “For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen."
Syd Barrett
Birth Name: Roger Keith Barrett
Birthday: January 6, 1946
Birth Place: Cambridge, England
Died: July 7, 2006
Other Bands: Stars
Best Selling Solo Album: The Madcap Laughs (1970)
Biggest Solo Hit Single: Octopus (1969)
Quote: “I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people."
The Band
Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Nick Mason
Richard Wright
