re: 79 year old Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is touring.

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I don't know who wrote that, but I don't believe it. That would mean Gilmour would have been credited on songs or he got cheated.

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Its pretty much industry standard that the music songwriting credits go to the person writing the basic chords/melody and not arrangers/soloists. So for example, even though Richard Wright's intro solo in Sheep was really the most memorable part of the song musically, he got no songwriting credit because it wasn't the base chords/melody. Same with Gilmours solos on Money (or Dick Parry's for that matter). It's just the way the credits work out.

Another example is George Martin. He really transformed a lot the Beatles songs from simple ideas to what they became but got no songwriting credit on any of it.