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Waters told The Times that he considers himself "enormously privileged to have been born in 1943 and not 1983, to have been around when there was a music business and the takeover of Silicon Valley hadn't happened and, in consequence, you could still make a living writing and recording songs and playing them to people."
Noting that diminishing music sales don't "change my life in any way," the musician still couldn't help feeling "angry" at "this gallery of rogues and thieves [who interject] themselves between the people who aspire to be creative and their potential audience and steal every f-cking cent anybody ever made and put it in their pockets to buy f-cking huge mega-yachts and Gulfstream Fives with."
He said, "These... thieves! It's just stealing! And that they're allowed to get away with it is just incredible."
However, Roger pointed out that audience is to blame as well. "I blame the punters as well to some extent, a whole generation that's grown up who believe that music should be free," he noted.
"I mean why not make everything free? Then you could walk into a shop and say 'I like that television' and you walk out with it. No! Somebody made that and you have to buy it! 'Oh, I'll just pick up few apples.' No! Some farmer grew those and brought them here to be sold!"
During the rest of the chat, Waters also addressed the omnipresent question of Pink Floyd reunion, saying that "a reunion is out of the question."
He explained, "Life, after all, gets shorter and shorter the closer you get to the end of it and time becomes more and more precious and, in my view, should be entirely devoted to doing the things you want to do. One can't look backwards. Well one can - and I do, actually, and with some fondness - but to try and walk backwards would be absurd."
Meanwhile Waters spending his normal life after multi-million divorce almost scuttled when his estranged wife Laurie Durning demanded her watch back in court. Laurie said: ‘I just want my watch, that’s all’,
Recently in an interview, Roger Waters recalled the dark days of the band and revealed the one thing David Gilmour and Richard Wright told him that ultimately led to his decision to leave!
In 1969, Waters married his childhood sweetheart Judy Trim, a successful potter; she was featured on the gatefold sleeve of the original release of Ummagumma, but excised from subsequent CD reissues.They had no children and divorced in 1975. Trim died in 2001.
In 1976, Waters married Lady Carolyne Christie, the niece of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland. His marriage to Christie produced a son, Harry Waters, a musician who has played keyboards with his father's touring band since 2002, and a daughter, India Waters, who has worked as a model Christie and Waters divorced in 1992.
In 1993, he married Priscilla Phillips; they had one son together, Jack Fletcher. Their marriage end
ed in 2001.
In 2004, Waters became engaged to actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning (born 1963; the t
wo married on 14 January 2012 and filed for divorce in September 2015. Also it emerged recently that Roger signed over the deed of a Soho apartment to Laurie, which indicates that it was part of the settlement.
When Waters decided to pursue solo endeavors in December 1985, he attempted to dissolve Pink Floyd in his wake, labeling it “a spent force creatively.” Gilmour disagreed, forging ahead with Wright and Mason to record a new album as Pink Floyd. An irate Waters took legal action to bar Gilmour and the rest of his former colleagues from using the band’s name – and the famed inflatable pig mascot during live performances.
