Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has said he believes he was wrong to initiate legal proceedings against his ex-bandmates following an acrimonious departure from the legendary group in 1985.
In an interview with BBC HARDtalk, Waters looked back with some regret on the decisions he made in the immediate aftermath of his break from Pink Floyd, when disputes over the use of the band’s name brought Waters to the high court.
“I did, I did think that was wrong, and I was wrong,” Waters remarked. “Of course I was. Who cares? It was a commercial decision and in fact it’s one of the few times that the legal profession has taught me something.”
“Because when I went to these chaps and said, ‘Listen we’re broke, this isn’t Pink Floyd anymore’, they went, ‘What do you mean? That’s irrelevant, it is a label and it has commercial value, you can’t say it’s going to cease to exist, you obviously haven’t looked back to Runnymede, you obviously don’t understand English jurisprudence. It’s not about what you think, it’s about, it’s what it is’.The law is everything what we have, that’s what the Wall is about.”
Waters, who has been touring a re-imagined version of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall‘ these past couple of years to huge success, also spoke of his desire to work on a new solo album which would be his first since the early Nineties.