You can read Uncut’s full preview feature here. Pink Floyd will be releasing boxed set of rarities and b-sides, The Later Years November 29. Some of overproduced, far too much stuff on it…” Thirty-five years earlier, bassist and vocalist Roger Waters, the despotic frontman who took over from founder Syd Barrett in 1968, when Barret exited due to mental health problems, had left. “There was a sense of trepidation over what it would be like without Roger, so we slightly over-egged the pudding in terms of lots of session players. It wasn’t the first time the band had lost their lead singer the same had, after all, happened with Syd Barrett. This sparked a legal battle over the use of. The catalyst was Waters’s decision in 1983 to leave Pink Floyd. I was in a very toxic environment where I was around some peopleWell, David (Gilmour, guitar) and Rick (Wright, keyboards) mainly were always trying to drag me down, Waters says. “We laid everything on it,” Mason recollects. Following the release of The Final Cut, Waters announced that he was leaving Pink Floyd to pursue a solo career. He later said about Waters quitting Pink Floyd in the early 80’s, I had been working for some time in the studio, but what was going to happen was in the air for a long time while Roger. Waters left Floyd in 1985, after promoting 1983’s The Final Cut album. “We’d be partly in the studios and partly in the lawyers’ office.” Floyd’s founding member continues, “‘Was Roger going to injunct?’ And the answer was, of course he couldn’t, because he’d left the band, and the one thing clear in all our contractual arrangements was that if someone left, they left, and the band continued without them… That gave David and me the authority to carry on.” “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to carry on – I did – but I don’t think I cared as much as David did.” Feb 7, 2023, 12:48 AM EST Pink Floyd members David Gilmour (left), Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright at the 2005 Live 8 concert in London. “I think David led on the idea ,” Nick Mason adds, referring to the group’s to decision forge ahead after Roger Waters acrimoniously left the band and then sued them in 1985. “So I imagine I thought, ‘Yes, we’ll go back to doing. “I hadn’t decided that enough was enough for me,” he then continues. Although he continued to receive the support of those who loved his solo music, there was also a question of whether the singer’s departure from the band hurt his commercial success.“By 1984, Roger had very obviously decided that enough was enough for him,” David Gilmour says in conversation with Uncut Magazine for a special Pink Floyd themed feature. In 1992, the third one, ‘ Amused to Death,’ also received mixed consideration from critics and reached number 8 on the UK Albums chart. It received mixed reviews, and Waters was dissatisfied with the record. The singer, who had already released his debut album ‘The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking’ before leaving the band, continued as a solo artist with the next record ‘Radio K.A.O.S.’ following his departure. You Were Here' and 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond' all from Pink Floyds 1975 album. He was a part of the band’s rising popularity, especially with the albums like ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘The Wall.’ However, Waters decided to part ways in 1985 due to unsolved conflicts regarding creative differences and focused on his solo career. Besides creating lyrics, he also served as the band’s co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader. Roger Waters contributed to Pink Floyd as the singer, songwriter, and bassist throughout his career with them.
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