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Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the destruction of the hated Berlin Wall, Waters was accompanied by disparate talents such as Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Joni Mitchell and Albert Finney in the classic dark musical tale of a rock star's descent into madness and back.
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- Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
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- DE
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Jul 10, 2012 · via TMDB
Nobody really expected the Berlin Wall to come down in 1989, and so suddenly. Roger Waters especially, because he had once made a promise never to perform The Wall again after the 1980 tour until the bricks fell in Berlin. But they did, and Waters had no intention to renege on his promise. The Wall became a star-studded megaconcert to benefit the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, with larger bricks, bigger inflatable puppets, and a larger audience than any of the original Pink Floyd shows. There was always a contradiction in performing such a personal work in a stadium setting, but here it becomes especially acute when opening up the vocal tasks to a variety of artists. Bryan Adams is actually an astute choice for the cock rock swagger of "Young Lust," but Cyndi Lauper ruins the spare funk of "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" with over-enthusiastic yelping. And you'll definitely want to skip Jerry Hall's reading of the background dialog before "One of My Turns" ("Oh my gawd, what a fabulous room! Are all these your guitars?" -- a piece known word for word by every Floyd fan out there), as she seems unaware that a microphone can be used for amplification. By running through the album track by track, a lot of the effect of the live versions wears thin, as it invites constant comparison to the studio album. But the trial scene is handled well, with Albert Finney, Tim Curry, Marianne Faithfull, Thomas Dolby, and Ute Lemper taking on the characters in Waters' psychological drama. It's fun, a nice document, but only makes you want to return to the original album.
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Matthias Jabs
Self - Lead Guitarist, Surrogate Band (as Scorpions)
Rudolf Schenker
Self - Rhythm Guitarist, Surrogate Band (as Scorpions)
Francis Buchholz
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Herman Rarebell
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Ute Lemper
Self - Vocals
Cyndi Lauper
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Thomas Dolby
Self - Synthesizer, vocals
Sinéad O'Connor
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Rick Danko
Self - Vocals
Levon Helm
Self - Vocals
Garth Hudson
Self - Accordion, saxophone
Joni Mitchell
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James Galway
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Jerry Hall
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Paul Carrack
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Van Morrison
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Tim Curry
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Marianne Faithfull
Self - Vocals
Albert Finney
Self - Vocals
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Andy Fairweather Low
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Peter Wood
Self - Keyboards
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