Roger Waters – The Wall (Live In Berlin)
Label: | PolyGram Music Video – PMV 301 |
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Format: | VHS, PAL |
Country: | South Africa |
Released: | |
Genre: | Rock |
Style: | Pop Rock, Prog Rock, Classic Rock |
Tracklist
1 | In The Flesh? | |
2 | The Thin Ice | |
3 | Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1) | |
4 | The Happiest Days Of Our Lives | |
5 | Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) | |
6 | Mother | |
7 | Goodbye Blue Sky | |
8 | What Shall We Do Now? (Empty Spaces) | |
9 | Young Lust | |
10a | "Oh My God, What A Fabulous Room!" | |
10b | One Of My Turns | |
11 | Don't Leave Me Now | |
12 | Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3) | |
13 | Goodbye Cruel World | |
14 | Hey You | |
15 | Is There Anybody Out There? | |
16 | Nobody Home | |
17 | Vera | |
18 | Bring The Boys Back Home | |
19 | Comfortably Numb | |
20 | In The Flesh | |
21 | Run Like Hell | |
22 | Waiting For The Worms | |
23 | Stop | |
24 | The Trial | |
25 | The Tide Is Turning |
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd.
- Copyright © – Operation Dinghy Ltd.
- Marketed By – Teal Trutone Music
- Distributed By – Teal Trutone Music
- Printed By – Artone Press
Credits
- Backing Vocals – Jim Farber, Jim Haas, Joe Chemay, John Joyce*
- Choir [Featuring] – The East Berlin Radio Choir* (tracks: 15, 17, 18, 20 to 24)
- Chorus Master – Dietrich Knothe (tracks: 15, 17, 18, 20 to 24)
- Conductor, Orchestrated By – Michael Kamen
- Design [Show Designed By] – Jonathan Park, Mark Fisher (5)
- Drums – Graham Broad
- Engineer – Nigel Jopson
- Film Director – Ken O'Neill
- Film Director [Filmed Sequence Director] – Ian Emes
- Film Producer – Tony Hollingsworth
- Film Producer [Event Produced And Conceived By] – Mick Worwood
- Guitar – Rick DiFonzo, Snowy White
- Guitar, Bass – Andy Fairweather-Low
- Keyboards – Nick Glennie-Smith, Peter Wood (2)
- Leader [Principal] – Dieter Braun* (tracks: 15, 17, 18, 20 to 24)
- Orchestra [Featuring] – The East Berlin Radio Orchestra* (tracks: 15, 17, 18, 20 to 24)
- Producer [Sound Track] – Nick Griffiths, Roger Waters
Notes
Roger Waters : The Wall (Live in Berlin) - Saturday 21st July 1990
Special Guest Artists: Bryan Adams · The Band: Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson · Paul Carrack · Thomas Dolby · James Galway · Jerry Hall · The Hooters · Cyndi Lauper · Ute Lemper · Joni Mitchell · Paddy Moloney · Van Morrison · Sinead O'Connor · Scorpions.
Special Thanks to Keith Bradley · Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO DFC · Carolyne Waters.
A Tribute Production for "The Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief"
© Operation Dinghy Ltd. 3SAT/ZDF 1990
Running time approx. 120 minutes.
Special Guest Artists: Bryan Adams · The Band: Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson · Paul Carrack · Thomas Dolby · James Galway · Jerry Hall · The Hooters · Cyndi Lauper · Ute Lemper · Joni Mitchell · Paddy Moloney · Van Morrison · Sinead O'Connor · Scorpions.
Special Thanks to Keith Bradley · Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO DFC · Carolyne Waters.
A Tribute Production for "The Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief"
© Operation Dinghy Ltd. 3SAT/ZDF 1990
Running time approx. 120 minutes.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 6 001210 461906
- Other (Censorship Cert. No.): DP4/18/3 (90/1562)
Other Versions (5 of 162)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | The Wall (Live In Berlin) (2×LP, Album, Gatefold) | Mercury | 846 611-1 | Europe | 1990 | ||
The Wall (Live In Berlin) (VHS, Limited Edition) | PolyGram Music Video, Channel 5 | 082 648 3, CFM 2648 | UK | 1990 | |||
Recently Edited | The Wall (Live In Berlin) (2×LP, Album) | Mercury | 846 611-1 | Portugal | 1990 | ||
Recently Edited | The Wall Live In Berlin (2×Cassette, Album, CrO2, 120 EQ) | Mercury | 846 611-4 | US | 1990 | ||
New Submission | The Wall: Live In Berlin (Laserdisc, 12", Stereo, PAL) | PolyGram Music Video | 082 648-1 | UK | 1990 |
Reviews
- Edited 19 years ago"Crazy, over the rainbow, I am crazy"... about this tape!
Hearing Cyndi Lauper's rather... well, let's just call it 'unique' rendition of "Another Brick in the Wall" on the radio late 1990 was my very first exposure to the amazing event described in the following paragraphs. Some time thereafter I caught a few snapshots in... no, not family albums, but magazines - leaving me to wonder what it exactly is that I had missed.
Well, what I did miss by living on the other side of the equator was a concert event of a phenomenally massive and grand scale, both in concept and execution as well as sheer attendance and TV audience numbers.
When the Berlin Wall finally come down in '89, Berlin's Potsdamer Platz practically set itself up as the stage for the ideal setting of a live Roger Waters performance of the classic Pink Floyd album (which was, after all, penned primarily by the bassist). Thus, on Saturday the 21st of July 1990, a very different kind of wall (and this not being on account of the styrofoam bricks used!) was built by an all-star cast assembled for a stellar performance of this seminal concept classic.
However, even with the most meticulous planning a project of this sheer scale (just take a look at the credits above) which, amongst others, boasted gargantuan inflatables of the 'Teacher' and 'Pig' characters as well as animations projected onto the wall atop a stage (that reportedly measured some 550 feet wide and 82 feet high) does not get pulled off without a few hitches: those 300,00 or so in the audience and the estimated ½ billion TV viewers had to sit/stand through about three power outages, while other glitches included camera failures and, embarrassingly enough, Sinead O'Connor and The Band even forgetting their texts!
Nevertheless, none of this is apparent on this video and subsequent DVD releases.
All little accidents were beautifully ironed out and edited away into a spectacle that invariably closer represents what the organisers had envisaged and certainly supersedes anything I have personally ever attended or witnessed.
For instance, some of The Band's vocals on "Mother" had to be re-recorded after the show was over because they did not remember the lines during the actual performance. On the video you can see Roger Waters standing by them holding the lyrics to read (something only continuity freaks might spot) while Sinead O'Connor's fantastic performance we get to watch is from the previous day's dress rehearsal... but, who cares?
Amazing... simply amazing I say! Even my wife, who solemny dislikes music videos, sat through most of this - mesmerized!
Bryan Adams' grovelly voice is perfect for "Young Lust"; Cyndi Lauper in her short skirt and blazer school uniform does a twisted version of "Another Brick..." that somehow works; Snowy White's guitar solos are just out of this world and do ample justice to Dave Gilmour's original although it is Van Morrison who does sound more than a little out of breath during "Comfortably Numb".
Amazing, still... I bow down in humility to this phenomenal video.
The camera work, lighting, editing and overall sound is superb, showcasing all featured performers, including the orchestra and chorus (conducted by Michael Kamen) which the live audience would never even had seen or properly heard.
Roger Waters, too, is in top form, throwing TV sets around and clearly enjoys commanding queers, coons, jews and dopeheads against the wall. The Scorpions are comically adequate while personal highlights include Paul Carrack singing into the wall, the track "Mother" (edited, I don't care) and the superbly creepy performance of "Goodbye Blue Sky" by the legendary Joni Mitchell, with the projected animations from the film and stills of graffiti that had adorned the real wall which had cut the city in two adding to the overall emotional impact of the entire show as well as the somehow humourous "Trial Sequence" whereafter all walls come crumbling down to thunderous applause and great symbolic effect.
Oh, and have I mentioned that this tape is amazing?
"I've got 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from." This is not one of them.
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