Roger Waters moved to London to study structure at Regent Street Polytechnic and there formed a band with drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright; he played bass and sang. Barrett joined them, forming Pink Floyd. Though Barrett was once the band’s main songwriter at first, Waters wrote or co-wrote 3 songs at the first LP, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (August 1967), including the solo composition “Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk.” By the time of the group’s second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (June 1968), Barrett had been replaced by way of David Gilmour and Waters had begun to take a more outstanding role, contributing 3 songs and one co-composition to the LP. He additionally wrote or co-wrote all but some of the tunes for the band’s soundtrack to the movie More (July 1969), even as his first solo work came on Ummagumma (November 1969), a two-LP set that consisted of 1 disc of live recordings and a second disc on which every bandmember contributed his personal tracks. As of Atom Heart Mother (October 1970), Pink Floyd began to work up its {material} as a group, regardless that Waters still contributed the only real composition “If.” Working with Ron Geesin, he wrote the soundtrack for The Body (December 1970), his first work out of doors Pink Floyd. The band’s next album, Meddle (November 1971), was once totally crew written. But Waters wrote or co-wrote 8 of the ten selections on Obscured by way of Clouds (June 1972), Pink Floyd’s soundtrack for the movie The Valley.  Read more...