themusicaddict's Greatest CDs of All-time: Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (Part 3) Waters Takes Down The Wall in Berlin

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From Wikipedia, the highlights about The Berlin Wall.

East German's official name was the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

The Berlin Wall started to be built on August 31st, 1961, it completely cut West Berlin off from East Berlin. The Berlin Wall was officially called the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart. Some from West Germany sometimes would refer to it as the Wall of Shame. The Berlin Wall was built to stop all those from East Germany who wanted to emigrate from doing so. Before The Berlin Wall was built 3.5 million East Germans "circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions". During it's existence, roughly from 1961 to 1989, around 5,000 people attempted to escape. Up to 100 people were killed in their attempt to escape. The GDR announced on November 9th, 1989 "that all GDR could visit West Germany and West Berlin." (The quotes are Wikipedia's, thanks to them.)

President Reagan's historic "Tear Down This Wall" speech at The Berlin Wall on June 12th, 1987. It was a speech to people of the world, the Soviet Union and also the people of Berlin- both East and West Berlin.



This is President Reagan's actual classic "Tear Down This Wall" comment to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev:



The Berlin Wall falls, this is very interesting:



Roger Waters "The Wall" performance at The Berlin Wall on July 21st, 1990, the CD was released on August 21st, 1990. Sadly the link is "disabled by request", but here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxFp6U-pns

From Wikipedia's "The Wall: Live in Berlin" page:

"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."

"Shot on Potsdamer Platz, the no man's land between East and West Berlin, the producers didn't know if the area would be filled with mines. Before setting up, they did a sweep of the area and found a cache of munitions and a previously unknown SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler bunker."

"Waters had stated on the first airing of the making of The Wall on In the Studio with Redbeard in July 1989 that the only way he was to resurrect a live performance of The Wall was "if the Berlin Wall came down". Four months later the wall came down."

"In the end, (producer Tony) Hollingsworth (with Waters assisting) brought in guest artists including Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of The Band, The Hooters, Van Morrison, Sinéad O'Connor, Cyndi Lauper, Marianne Faithfull, Scorpions, Joni Mitchell, Paul Carrack, Thomas Dolby and Bryan Adams, along with actors Albert Finney, Jerry Hall, Tim Curry and Ute Lemper. Leonard Cheshire opened the concert by blowing a World War II whistle."

1. "In the Flesh?" by Scorpions
2. "The Thin Ice" by Ute Lemper & Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir
3. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)" by Roger Waters; sax solo by Garth Hudson
4. "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" by Roger Waters
5. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" by Cyndi Lauper; guitar solos by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White, synth solo by Thomas Dolby
6. "Mother" by Sinéad O'Connor & The Band; accordion by Garth Hudson, vocals by Rick Danko & Levon Helm; acoustic instruments by The Hooters.
7. "Goodbye Blue Sky" by Joni Mitchell & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir ; flute by James Galway
8. "Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now?" by Bryan Adams, Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir
9. "Young Lust" by Bryan Adams, guitar solos by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White
10. "Oh My God – What a Fabulous Room" by Jerry Hall (intro to "One of My Turns")
11. "One of My Turns" by Roger Waters
12. "Don't Leave Me Now" by Roger Waters
13. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)" by Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir
14. "The Last Few Bricks"
15. "Goodbye Cruel World" by Roger Waters
16. "Hey You" by Paul Carrack
17. "Is There Anybody Out There?" by The Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir; classical guitars by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White
18. "Nobody Home" by Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir, guitar solos by Snowy White
19. "Vera" by Roger Waters & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir
20. "Bring the Boys Back Home" by The Rundfunk, Band of the Combined Soviet Forces in Germany & Red Army Chorus
21. "Comfortably Numb" by Van Morrison, Roger Waters & The Band & the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir, guitar solos by Rick Di Fonzo & Snowy White
22. "In the Flesh" by Roger Waters, Scorpions, the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir
23. "Run Like Hell" by Roger Waters and Scorpions
24. "Waiting for the Worms" by Roger Waters, Scorpions and the Rundfunk Orchestra & Choir
25. "Stop" by Roger Waters
26. "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
27. "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.
28. "Outside The Wall" by Roger Waters

(Thanks to Wikipedia.org for most of the information in this blog.)

I'm providing the video for "The Tide Is Turning" as this is a new addition to "The Wall":

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