Germany-based music rights company ends publishing agreement with Pink Floyd co-founder over divisive rhetoric
September 2023
Roger Waters accused of repeated antisemitism in new documentary
Investigation interviews those who claim to have heard several derogatory references to Jews
June 2023
Roger Waters review – embattled singer vows ‘I will not be cancelled’
Ex-Pink Floyd singer jettisons imagery that has led to accusations of antisemitism in Germany – and the result makes for a more powerful show
May 2023
Protesters accuse Roger Waters of antisemitism ahead of Frankfurt gig
Berlin police investigate Roger Waters over Nazi-style uniform at concert
April 2023
Roger Waters wins legal battle to gig in Frankfurt amid antisemitism row
‘I had a reckless feeling of destiny’: photographer Jill Furmanovsky on Blondie, Bob Marley and rock’s boys’ club
March 2023
From the Guardian archive
Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut: ‘an awkward album’ – archive, 1983
17 March 1983: The follow-up to The Wall is a mini-epic written by Roger Waters, subtitled ‘a requiem for the post war dream’
Roger Waters threatens legal action over German concert cancellations
Waters was accused of being ‘a widely known antisemite’ in Frankfurt council instruction to cancel concert, with other German cities also proposing cancellations
Roger Waters reveals first music from re-recorded solo Dark Side of the Moon
Controversial former bandleader says he wanted to ‘re-address the political and emotional message’ of album that turns 50 years old this week
February 2023
Andy Fairweather Low: ‘Jimi Hendrix sidled over and politely told me: you’re in the wrong key’
Putin is gambling on the west growing impatient with Ukraine. We have to prove him wrong
Jonathan Freedland
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Ukraine rebukes Roger Waters' ceasefire call as 'brick in the wall of Russian propaganda' – video
Pink Floyd lyricist calls Roger Waters an antisemite and ‘Putin apologist’
September 2022
Roger Waters cancels gigs in Poland amid row over Ukraine war comments
Pink Floyd co-founder's stance on Russia's war against Ukraine has sparked ‘indignation’ in Kraków
December 2019
From the Guardian archive
Pink Floyd's The Wall: 'a bleak, manic and agonised album' – archive, 1979
5 December 1979 This is a long, uneven work that veers uneasily between crazy indulgence and nihilistic brilliance
April 2019
Brief letters
Beyoncé rocks, but so did Woodstock
Roger Waters is too simplistic on Israel
February 2019
Roger Waters condemns Richard Branson's Venezuela aid concert
Virgin says event ‘is not a political statement and the US is not involved’
January 2019
It shouldn’t take Pink Floyd to rescue Isis fighters’ abandoned children
Letta Tayler
Governments with nationals trapped in Syria should do what Roger Waters did, says Human Rights Watch researcher Letta Tayler
