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Radio 4. My My castaway this week is the musician Roger Waters. It's more than 45 years since he and some mates formed a band.

The screaming Abdabs never made it and nor did the mega deaths.

But as Pink Floyd, they became one of the most critically acclaimed and successful groups of all

time. Their groundbreaking albums included the dark side of the moon and the

wall, but they're equally well known for their extraordinary live shows with towering sets,

vast inflatables and monstrous cartoons.

Much of the inspiration for that came from the dark side of Roger Waters.

He was only months old when his father was killed at Anseo,

and he poured out the grief and sense of abandonment he suffered into his work.

Years of extraordinary success were followed by even more of legal wrangling,

but in 2005 Pink Floyd were reunited for Live 8 in a performance that their fans thought they'd never live to see.

Of his own career, he says, I've been very lucky. A lot of people die before anybody takes their work seriously.

The problem, indeed as an artist, when you talk about the things that are important to you is that

you expose yourself and you expose yourself to criticism and judgment on your

feelings. How comfortable are you with that?

Well, that's been my whole career. There's no other way that I can do it. All I can do is paint

what I see and, you you know how people buy the picture

and you're still painting it's still important to you that you express yourself

it is yeah I still express myself I continue to write songs quite a lot. I can't believe I haven't made an album since

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