Editing Roger Waters (section)

===1999–2004: In the Flesh tour and ''Wall'' Broadway production===
In 1999, after a 12-year hiatus from touring and a seven-year absence from the music industry, Waters embarked on the In the Flesh tour, performing both solo and Pink Floyd material. The tour was a financial success in the US; though Waters had booked mostly smaller venues, tickets sold so well that many of the concerts were upgraded to larger ones.{{sfn|Povey|2008|pp= 329–334}} The tour eventually stretched across the world and spanned three years. A concert film was released on CD and DVD, ''[[In the Flesh – Live]]''. During the tour, Waters played two new songs "Flickering Flame" and "Each Small Candle" as the final encore to many of the shows. In June 2002, he completed the tour with a performance in front of 70,000 people at the [[Glastonbury Festival|Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts]], playing 15 Pink Floyd songs and five songs from his solo catalogue.{{sfn|Povey|2008|pp=329–334}}

[[Miramax]] announced in 2004 that a production of ''The Wall'' was to appear on Broadway with Waters playing a prominent role in the creative direction. Reports stated that the musical contained not only the original tracks from ''The Wall'', but also songs from ''Dark Side of the Moon'', ''Wish You Were Here'' and other Pink Floyd albums, as well as new material.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3539908.stm |title= Pink Floyd's Wall Broadway bound |work= BBC News |date= 5 August 2004 |access-date= 2 October 2010 |archive-date= 24 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210224225554/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3539908.stm |url-status= live }}</ref> On the night of 1 May 2004, recorded extracts from the opera, including its [[overture]], were played on the occasion of the ''[[Enlargement of the European Union|Welcome Europe]]'' celebrations in the accession country of [[Malta]]. Gert Hof mixed recorded excerpts from the opera into a continuous piece of music which was played as an accompaniment to a large light and fireworks display over [[Grand Harbour]] in [[Valletta]].{{sfn|Povey|2008|p= 334}} 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.{{sfn|Blake|2008|p=391}}