Roger Waters Presents LEGACY - A Pink Floyd Show
About This Event
Roger Waters presents LEGACY — A Pink Floyd Show at NJPAC pairs Waters's association with Pink Floyd and a band presentation of the group's repertoire. Pink Floyd, which emerged from London’s mid-1960s underground and became known for long-form structures, studio experimentation and concerts that integrate engineered sound and visuals, is filtered through Waters's history as the band's principal lyricist and conceptual leader.
About LEGACY - A Pink Floyd Show
At NJPAC, **LEGACY — A Pink Floyd Show** is presented by **Roger Waters**, revisiting material tied to his long tenure in **Pink Floyd** through a full-band format. The program draws from the group’s catalog, shaped in London’s 1960s underground and later defined by extended song forms, studio-built sound, and arena-scale staging. For New York–area audiences, it lands as part of the region’s long-running relationship with Floyd’s concert tradition, even without a specific NYC premiere to point to. One clear takeaway is how these songs still function as a shared vocabulary for rock’s idea of ambition.
About the Artists
Roger Waters
George Roger Waters is an English singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the band's main songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's principal lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is an English rock group that emerged from London’s mid-1960s underground, first led by Syd Barrett before David Gilmour joined and the lineup centered around Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright.