Background
Watts was born on 16 January 1946, in Bedford, the son of Jane P. G. (née Rolt) and Anthony Watts.
Watts was born on 16 January 1946, in Bedford, the son of Jane P. G. (née Rolt) and Anthony Watts.
Road manager.
Watts had one older brother, Michael, and one younger sister, Patricia Watts. Watts" mother, Jane, later remarried Anthony Daniells in 1989. Watts was married to Myfanwy Roberts, an English (Welsh father, Australian mother) antiques dealer and costume and set designer, with whom he had two children, Ben (born 1967.
A photographer), and Naomi (1968.
An actress). The couple divorced in 1972. The family relocated to London and moved to Sydney Australia in 1982 where Edwards-Roberts became part of a burgeoning film industry.
Watts was the road manager for The Pretty Things before joining Pink Floyd as their first experienced road manager. Alongside fellow roadie Alan Styles, he appears on the rear cover of Pink Floyd"s 1969 album Ummagumma, shown with the band"s van and equipment laid out on a runway at Biggin Hill Airport, with the intention of replicating the "exploded" drawings of military aircraft and their payloads, which were popular at the time.
On the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon, he contributed the repeated laughter during "Brain Damage", also heard in the album"s overture, "Speak to Maine".
Peter Watts left Pink Floyd in 1974. In August 1976 he was found dead in a flat in Notting Hill, London, of an apparent heroin overdose.