Source: Good News Network
Happy Birthday to Roger Waters who turns 75 years old today. The singer and bassist co-founded Pink Floyd, and wrote most of the lyrics for their groundbreaking albums. His concert tour, “The Wall Live” is the fifth-highest-grossing tour of all time, earning revenue of more than $458 million.
His 2017-18 world tour, Us + Them, featuring songs from Pink Floyd’s greatest LPs—The Dark Side of The Moon, The Wall, Animals, and Wish You Were Here, plus new songs from his album Is This the Life We Really Want?—has garnered rave reviews with its legendary visual production, typical of any Waters concert. WATCH a recent interview… (1943)
MORE Good News On this Day:
- The first ship to circumnavigate the world, the Victoria, of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returned to Spain (1522)
- The first woman to vote legally in the U.S. marked her ballot in Laramie, Wyoming (1870)
- Saint Petersburg‘s name was restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924 (1991)
- Musician Sir Bob Geldof was awarded the freedom of his native Dublin after the City Council voted in favor of giving him the accolade in honor of his campaign against world poverty and alleviating debt in Africa (2005)
- The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the nation to approve same-sex marriages (2005)
- The Turkish president attended…
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