He remained out of public view until the end of the decade when he re-emerged with the In The Flesh tour that combined Pink Floyd songs with his solo material including a couple of new songs and eventually ran for three years. In 1992 he released his third solo album, Amused To Death, although there was no accompanying tour. Waters’ creative control over Pink Floyd had increased through Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals until by The Wall in 1979 it was complete – and by 1983’s The Final Cut was dictatorial.
The 1987 agreement that effectively ended the bitter dispute between Waters and his former bandmates gave Waters all rights to The Wall while David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright gained the rights to the name Pink Floyd. Ironically, Waters was a victim of the faceless image that Pink Floyd had deliberately fostered in order to preserve their anonymity away from the limelight.ĭecades on, Waters’ contribution to Pink Floyd’s legacy has got the credit it deserves, especially since he buried the hatchet with his former bandmates (although the handle is still above ground) for Pink Floyd’s reunion at 2005’s Live 8. To the average punter he was just the bass player.
It didn’t matter that Waters had been the main creative force behind every Pink Floyd album since Dark Side Of The Moon in 1973.
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