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The Wall – Live in Berlin was a live concert performance by Roger Waters and numerous guest artists, of the Pink Floyd studio album The Wall, itself largely written by Waters during his time with the band. The show was held in Berlin on 21 July 1990, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. A live album of the concert was released 21 August 1990. A video of the concert was also commercially released. The concert was staged on vacant terrain between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, a location that was part of the former "no man's land" of the Berlin Wall.
The show had a sell-out crowd of over 350,000 people, and right before the performance started the gates were opened which enabled at least another 100,000 people to watch. While this broke records for a paid-entry concert, 7 days earlier Jean Michel Jarre had set a new world record for concert attendance, with his free Paris la Defense show attracting a live audience of two million.
The event was produced and cast by British impresario and producer Tony Hollingsworth. It was staged partly at Waters' expense. While he subsequently earned the money back from the sale of the CD and video releases of the album, the original plan was to donate all profits past his initial investment to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a UK charity founded by Leonard Cheshire. However, audio and video sales came in significantly under projections, and the trading arm of the charity (Operation Dinghy) incurred heavy losses. A few years later, the charity was wound up, and the audio and video sales rights from the concert performance returned to Waters.
Setlist[edit] "In the Flesh?" by Scorpions "The Thin Ice" by Ute Lemper & Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)" by Roger Waters; sax solo by Garth Hudson "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" by Roger Waters "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" by Cyndi Lauper; guitar solos by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White, synth solo by Thomas Dolby "Mother" by Sinéad O'Connor & The Band; accordion by Garth Hudson, vocals by Rick Danko & Levon Helm; acoustic instruments by The Hooters. "Goodbye Blue Sky" by Joni Mitchell & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir ; flute by James Galway "Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now?" by Bryan Adams, Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir "Young Lust" by Bryan Adams, guitar solos by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White "Oh My God – What a Fabulous Room" by Jerry Hall (intro to "One of My Turns") "One of My Turns" by Roger Waters "Don't Leave Me Now" by Roger Waters "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)" by Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir "The Last Few Bricks" "Goodbye Cruel World" by Roger Waters "Hey You" by Paul Carrack "Is There Anybody Out There?" by The Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir; classical guitars by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White "Nobody Home" by Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir, guitar solos by Snowy White "Vera" by Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir "Bring the Boys Back Home" by The Rundfunk, Band of the Combined Soviet Forces in Germany & Red Army Chorus "Comfortably Numb" by Van Morrison, Roger Waters & The Band & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir, guitar solos by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White "In the Flesh" by Roger Waters, Scorpions, the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir "Run Like Hell" by Roger Waters and Scorpions "Waiting for the Worms" by Roger Waters, Scorpions and the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir "Stop" by Roger Waters "The Trial" by The Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir, featuring: Tim Curry as the Prosecutor Thomas Dolby as the School Master Ute Lemper as the Wife Marianne Faithfull as the Mother Albert Finney as the Judge "The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)" by the Company (lead vocals by Roger Waters, Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison and Paul Carrack.) & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir. "Outside The Wall" by Roger Waters