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DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: ROCK & POP STARS - ROGER WATERS (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st March 2020
From Mahler to Neil Young.
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.
As one of the founding members of the band Pink Floyd, he has seen huge critical and commercial success. But in 1985 he walked away from the group and years of acrimony followed. They were reunited for one final performance, twenty years later, for Live 8. It was a moment many of their fans thought they would not live to see and it was, he says, highly emotional.
"We did a run through on the Friday night and it was remarkable, there were about fifty or sixty people working on the site, putting out rubbish bins or whatever it was they were doing and they all stopped and at the end they all applauded - that was a very moving moment."
Record: Mahler - Symphony No.5 in C Sharp - 4th movement
Book: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Luxury: A grand piano
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.
Neil Young - Helpless [Atlantic]
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jaques Morelenbaum & Everton Norton - Endless Flight [Concord]
Leonard Cohen - Bird On The Wire [Columbia]
Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine [Pacific Jazz]
Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind [Westmoor]
Giacomo Puccini - E Lucevan Le Stelle (from Tosca) [EMI]
Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child [Verve]
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor - 4th Movement (Adagietto) [EMI]
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 12 - 5. ROGER WATERS (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 27th February 2018
Roger Waters shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt in a programme first broadcast in 2016.
Roger Waters is a singer, songwriter and composer, who was a founder member of Pink Floyd, one of the most acclaimed and beloved British bands of all time. He helped lead the group in the creation of some of the best, biggest-selling and most ambitious albums in popular music history. He's also made his mark as a solo artist and currently holds the record for the highest grossing tour for a solo musician ever.
Roger remembers a youth obsessed with blues, jazz and R&B, and his early songwriting influences such as Hoagy Carmichael, Bob Dylan and John Lennon. He looks back at his relationship with his childhood friend Syd Barret, who would join the Pink Floyd in 65. He recalls the post-Syd Floyd, the creation of Dark Side of the Moon and his uneasy relationship with the fame that followed. Roger also focuses on The Wall - the 1979 concept album inspired by that relationship -- and how he revisited the album in 2010 for his epic record breaking Roger Waters: The Wall tour, which also inspired a live album and a feature movie. He also talks about his famously acrimonious split from Pink Floyd, and, more positively, his new material.
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond [EMI]
Gilbert And Sullivan - Three Little Maids From School (From--Mikado) [Golden Tone]
Tommy Steele And The Steelmen - Singing The Blues [Deram]
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - I Love You Baby [Marble Arch]
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues [Columbia]
Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind [Castle Communications]
The Rolling Stones - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Pink Floyd - Bike [EMI/Columbia]
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Mother [Parlophone]
Pink Floyd - Money [EMI]
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) [Harvest]
Roger Waters - 5:01 am (The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking, Part 10) [Harvest]
Roger Waters - Outside The Wall (Live) [EMI]
The Impressions - People Get Ready [Beechwood Music]