Roger Waters performs the Wall: live in Berlin

	The Wall. Performed live in Berlin July 21, 1990 at Potsdamer Platz by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
	We traveled through East Germany on the official highway, waited 7 hours at Checkpoint: Alpha [ not knowing people were streaming through East Germany on a direct path to the show]. At Checkpoint: Bravo, we had to salute the Soviet officer, who was about 17 or 18 and looked like he was ready to pass out from the heat. We were in t-shirts and shorts, but that was the procedure.
	A German language link. An English language link. BBC Interview. The Show.

From the URL: http:/www.rogerwaters.org/about_berlin.html "Punctually at 2200 hours in "no man's land" - on the spot where a few months previously stood the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters commenced the building of his own "Wall". Fans of Pink Floyd waited almost 10 years for this moment! The concert was opened by Leonard Cheshire, and then for the next uninterrupted two hours there was Music. Pyrotechnics began and ended the show, and among other lighting effects lasers were extensively used throughout the show, and especially during the collapse of the wall. The combined visual effects of the constantly moving cranes and other mechanics, musical theatrics, performers, musicians, orchestra, choir, graphic projections, animation's, lighting effects, lasers, pyrotechnics, moving stages and lifts, military vehicles and marching soldiers, the ever growing brick wall stage and props, coupled with the deeply moving music and storyline, became a multimedia extravaganza unparalleled in any stage show in history. The program appeared in the following order: In the Flesh: Scorpions The Thin Ice: Ute Lemper and Roger Waters Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1): Roger Waters, saxophone solo by Garth Hudson of The Band The Happiest Days of Our Lives: Roger Waters together with Joe Chemay, Jim Farber, Jim Hass and John Joyce Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2): Cyndi Lauper, Solos respectively by: Rick DiFonzo, Snowy White, Peter Wood, And Thomas Dolby Mother: Sinead O'Connor and The Band Good-bye Blue Sky: Joni Mitchell, solo on flute - James Galway Empty Spaces: Roger Waters What Shall We Do Now?: Bryan Adams Young Lust: Bryan Adams Oh my God, what a fabulous room...: Jerry Hall One of My Turns: Roger Waters Don't Leave Me Now: Roger Waters Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3): Roger Waters Good-bye Cruel World: Roger Waters Hey You: Paul Carrack Is There Anybody Out There?: Orchestra and choir, acoustic guitar Rick DiFonzo, And Snowy White Nobody Home: Roger Waters, guitar solo - Snowy White Vera: Roger Waters Bring the Boys Back Home: Orchestra and Soviet Military Marching Band Comfortably Numb: Roger Waters, Van Morrison And The Band, Guitar dialogue on top of the walL: Rick DiFonzo And Snowy White In the Flesh: Scorpions, Roger Waters, Orchestra, choir and Soviet Military Marching Band Run Like Hell: Scorpions, Roger Waters Waiting for the Worms: Scorpions, Roger Waters, Orchestra, choir and Soviet Military Marching Band Stop: Roger Waters The Trial: Orchestra and choir, Refrain performed by Roger Waters, Trial performances by Tim Curry (prosecutor), Thomas Dolby (teacher), Ute Lemper (defendant's wife), Marianne Faithfull (mother) And Albert Finney as the judge The Tide is Turning: Sung by all performers. There were other differences from The Wall concerts of the early 80s. Roger Waters did not perform the song "The Show Must Go On" and to finish the concert - instead of the expected "Outside the Wall" - he performed a song of hope, "The Tide is Turning". While the song was performed by all artists who took part in the event, the idea of such a finale is worthy of note. There were a number of reports as to the quantity of fans who attended. Two hundred thousand tickets were printed and sold, but it is estimated that well over 250,000 people were actually present. This was mostly because, shortly before the show began, after all paying ticket holders had entered the gates of the fenced Platz, the gates were opened and it essentially became a free concert."