01	Radio Waves						04:58
	02	Who Needs Information						05:55
	03	Me Or Him						05:23
	04	The Powers That Be						04:36
	05	Sunset Strip						04:45
	06	Home						06:00
	07	Four Minutes						04:00
	08	The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)						05:44

RADIO K.A.O.S.
Released: June 15, 1987
Recorded: October - December, 1986
Produced by: Ian Ritchie, Nick Griffiths and Roger Waters
Engineered by: Chris Sheldon
Cover Design by: Kate Hepburn and Pearce Marchbank
Label: Columbia CK-40795


Roger Waters And The Bleeding Heart Band
Roger Waters - vocals, guitars, bass, the odd keyboard,
including the shakuhachi on "Me or Him"
Andy Fairweather-Low, Jay Stapley - electric guitars
Mel Collins - saxophones
Ian Ritchie - Fairlight programming, drum programming, piano, keyboards, tenor saxophone on "Who Needs Information", "Powers That Be", and "Sunset Strip"
Graham Broad - drums, percussion
John Linwood - drums on "Powers That Be"
Nick Glenny-Smith - DX7 and Emu on "Powers That Be", including the great bass line
Matt Irving - Hammond organ on "Powers That Be"
Paul Carrack - guest vocal on "Powers That Be"
Clare Torry - guest vocals on "Home" and "Four Minutes"
Suzanne Rhatigan - main backing vocals on "Radio Waves", "Me Or Him",
"Sunset Strip", and "The Tide Is Turning"
Kate Kissoon, Doreen Chanter, Madeline Bell, Steve Langer, Vicky Brown - backing vocals on "Who Needs Information", "Powers That Be", and "Radio Waves"
John Phirkell - trumpet on "Who Needs Information",
"Powers That Be", and "Sunset Strip"
Peter Thoms - trombone on "Who Needs Information",
"Powers That Be", and "Sunset Strip"
and
The Pontardoulais Male Voice Choir, led by Noel Davis / arranged by Eric Jones

The Characters
Jim Ladd - Jim
Andy Quigley - the "Forgive me, Father" speech
Shelly Ladd - California weirdo: Monkey and Dog lady
Jack Snyder - California weirdo: Guppy
Ron Weldy - California weirdo: I don't like fish
J.J. Jackson - California weirdo: Flounder
Jim Rogers - California weirdo: Doesn't like fish, marine fish
John Taylor - California weirdo: Shellfish Shrimp Crab Lobster
Stuart, the spaniel - played Uncle David's Great Dane, with the help of
an AKAI 900 sampler and a DX7 to make him sound bigger
BBC Master computer - Billy
Harry & India Waters - children in the garden


Radio K.A.O.S.
Date of Release 1987

Roger Waters' second solo album is yet another conceptual narrative that tells the tale of a wheelchair-bound boy who tries to halt the threat of nuclear war through his use of the HAM radio. The story line isn't held together as tightly as his first album, and the whole fable seems a little too far fetched, even when taken lightly. Unlike The Pros and Cons album, the music here overrides the narrative, but not by much, highlighted by the upbeat pop single "Radio Waves." The last tune, entitled "The Tide Is Turning," is the only other focal point of the album, an honest-sounding ballad that relinquishes a glimmer of hope in an otherwise unpromising world. Waters' anti-war theme is stretched full across the album, but the music itself struggles to capture any attention, bogged down by half-whispers and flat-lined melodies that are only slightly resuscitated from time to time with some trumpet and saxophone. The novelty of Los Angeles disc jockey Jim Ladd wears off quickly, as he was obviously used to add some lightheartedness to the album's pessimistic undertones. Waters' use of imagery and thematic depth are absent from Radio K.A.O.S., leaving his superficial spiel with barely any sustenance, which in turn hinders the moral of the album so that it fails to reach its fruition. While both The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and Amused to Death convey his talented use of concept, imagination, and lyrical mastery, this album seems to be nothing more than a fictional tale with a blatantly apparent message. - Mike DeGagne



Roger Waters
AKA born: George Roger Waters
Born Sep 6, 1944 in Great Bookham, Cambridge, England

Roger Waters was a primary creative force in Pink Floyd from 1965 to 1983. He first met Syd Barrett, who would become the band's lead singer and guitarist, during his school days when both attended a Saturday art class. He moved to London to study architecture 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 the band's main songwriter at first, Waters wrote or co-wrote three songs on the first LP, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (U.S. release: September 1967), including the sole composition "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk." By the time of the group's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (July 1968), Barrett had been replaced by David Gilmour and Waters had begun to take a more prominent role, contributing three songs and one co-composition to the LP. He also wrote or co-wrote all but one of the tunes for the band's soundtrack to the film More (July 1969), while his first solo work came on Ummagumma (November 1969), a two-LP set that consisted of one disc of live material and a second disc on which each band member contributed his own tracks. As of Atom Heart Mother (October 1970), Pink Floyd began to work up its material as a group, though Waters still contributed the sole composition "If." Working with Ron Geesin, he wrote the soundtrack for The Body (December 1970), his first work outside Pink Floyd. He also wrote or co-wrote eight of the ten selections on Obscured by Clouds (June 1972), Pink Floyd's soundtrack for the film The Valley.
Pink Floyd's recordings were moderately successful through 1972. But The Dark Side of the Moon (March 1973), for which Waters wrote all the lyrics and some of the music, was a commercial breakthrough that became one of the most successful albums in rock history. (He was the sole author of the album's Top Ten hit "Money.") He took an increasingly dominant role in the writing of subsequent Pink Floyd albums, writing all the lyrics and collaborating on the music for Wish You Were Here (September 1975), writing most of Animals (February 1977) and The Wall (November 1979), and writing all of The Final Cut (March 1983). All were million sellers, with The Wall in particular rivaling the sales of The Dark Side of the Moon. (Waters was the sole author of "Another Brick in the Wall Part II," a gold, number one single drawn from The Wall.)

Following the release of The Final Cut, Pink Floyd broke up and its members launched solo careers. Waters re-emerged with The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (April 1984), which went gold. He followed with Radio K.A.O.S. (June 1987) and went on tour to promote the release. Meanwhile, David Gilmour's solo album About Face (February 1984) was also a gold seller, but he was discouraged by that showing and recruited Mason and Wright to re-form Pink Floyd. Waters sued, seeking an injunction to prevent the trio from touring as Pink Floyd without him, but he lost the case, and the Gilmour-led Pink Floyd went on to tour and recorded successfully.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Waters organized an all-star performance of The Wall in Berlin on July 21, 1990. It was filmed and recorded, resulting in the album The Wall - Live in Berlin (September 1990). He released a third solo album, Amused to Death (September 1992), but did not tour, though he made an appearance at a benefit concert in 1993. He spent much of the 1990s working on an opera, Ca Ira, in French and English. But in July and August 1999, he mounted his first U.S. tour in 12 years. It was so successful that he returned for a second leg in June and July 2000, and the concerts served as the basis for the two-CD set In the Flesh. The Waters camp was relatively quiet after that, although a collection of singles and album tracks appeared in the spring of 2002. - William Ruhlmann



1970 Music from "The Body" EMI
1984 The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking Columbia
1987 When the Wind Blows Virgin
1987 Radio K.A.O.S. Columbia
1992 Amused to Death Columbia
2000 In the Flesh Live Sony
2003 The Wall: Live in Berlin, 1990 [2003] Mercury