Roger Waters Called Pink Floyd's The Endless River a 'Forgery' — Here's What He Said About Rick Wright's Recordings

When Pink Floyd announced The Endless River in 2014 — an ambient album built from leftover sessions of The Division Bell that prominently featured Rick Wright’s final keyboard recordings — Roger Waters wasted no time torpedoing it. In a string of interviews, he called the album a “forgery,” accusing David Gilmour and Nick Mason of using Wright’s parts without the deceased keyboardist’s consent. His core argument: Wright never agreed to have his old improvisations stitched into a new project, and releasing them as a “Pink Floyd” album was a cynical attempt to rewrite history and erase Waters’ own contribution to the band.

The specific accusation was pointed. Waters claimed that Wright would have