Before Waters announced his departure from Pink Floyd, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking was released.
In March 1983, the last Pink Floyd album with Waters, The Final Cut, was released
 In July 2004, Waters released two new tracks online: "To Kill the Child", inspired by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and "Leaving Beirut", an anti-war song inspired by his travels in the Middle East as a teenager

