While at Regent Street Polytechnic, Roger Waters met future bandmates Nick Mason and Rick Wright and they started playing music together. He also didn’t like school because of the rampant bullying from students and teachers, which you can hear in “Another Brick in the Wall”. As you can see in The Wall and The Final Cut (he dedicated the latter to his father), Roger Waters losing his father inspired the writing of the songs on those albums. Mary and her two sons moved to Cambridge, where they were raised. He was a conscientious objector and a pacifist at the beginning of the war, driving an ambulance, but later joined the Army. He never knew him because he died in the Battle of Anzio, in Italy on 18 February 1944, when Roger Waters was an infant. His father, Eric Fletcher Waters was a schoolteacher and a member of the Communist Party. He was born George Roger Waters in Surrey. You may not agree with his views, but no doubt did he shed light on issues going on around the world and he doesn’t shy away from politics in his live shows.īassist and one of the vocalists of Pink Floyd. One of the most outspoken classic rockers and arguably the best known socialist classic rocker on this list. In this post, we’ll be looking at musicians from the 70s, from Roger Waters to Tom Robinson! You might even find some surprises in here! Enjoy! Left Wing Musicians of the 70s: Roger Waters:

Welcome to part 2 of our leftist/socialist classic rock musicians series! Part 1, published on International Workers’ Day, was about musicians of the 60s.

Roger waters 1970s