It was a dramatic occasion, but sort of a stillborn event. No one knows how many people came, but the number was somewhere in the region of 300,000 (150,000 tickets were sold, but the organizers brought down the fences so that the approximately as many people without tickets could get in, too). It seemed at the time, and even more so in retrospect, to be an interruption of the fantastic-sized concept. The concert itself wasn’t that good, I thought. When I got to the car, David Bates said to me “Did you see the look on those guys’ faces? They looked like they wanted to shoot us and were pissed that they can’t anymore.”Īlso Read Watch Lucius Cover Pink Floyd’s ‘Mother’ With Roger Waters For as much as tourists dilute the character of a place, at least they are symbols of a benignity that had been missing from these parts for nearly 30 years. I figured they’d be happy to see tourists. I smiled at the impassive-looking cops in the car, cradling rocks in my arms. Just then an East Berlin police car rolled slowly past. I relented and went back to one kid and bought two pieces from him, too. We could have picked all we wanted off the ground, five feet from where the kids operated, but my friends each bought pieces from them and, satisfied with their overall haul, returned to the car. The largest chunks were on the west side, but the colorful ones were on the east, where liberated East Germans had gleefully graffitied the canvas that jailed them.Ī couple of East German teenagers were enterprisingly bashing colored chunks out of the wall to sell to people like us. There were human-sized holes in the wall, like crude doors, and we stepped in and out of them, to find better chunks, crossing back and forth from East to West, half a dozen times in five minutes. For 28 years this barrier forbid an entire people to touch it and now four American vacationers rummaged among its remains for choice paperweights, picking up and tossing aside imperfectly shaped stones and stacking up appealing ones. We got out of the car and went up to the wall to pick up souvenirs, fragments of granite tyranny lying at the base of this now defeated monster. The building project was drab, of course, but sunlit, and its grassy backlot was lifeless, broken ground that separated the apartments from the road, which ran along the internal edge of the awful, death-chilled wall. It was completely quiet, a perfectly ordinary Sunday afternoon. So we looked for an alternative route and found, literally, a hole in the wall, and, like Alice stepping through the looking-glass, drove through it into an East German building complex. Checkpoint Charlie was gone and you no longer needed visas to cross from one Berlin to the other, but traffic at the main crossings was congested. Rights Society (Label, side A & C, boxed): B.I.E.The day after The Wall concert in Berlin’s infamous Potzdamer Platz, David Bates, Dawn Bridges, and Chris Roberts from PolyGram Records, and I drove to East Berlin.
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Label Code (Label, side A & C, boxed): LC 00407.Producer – Nick Griffiths, Roger Waters.Photography By – Adrian Boot, Michael Putland, Paul Slattery, Tony Mottram.Performer, Performer – Marianne Faithfull.Performer – Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Jerry Hall, Joni Mitchell, Paddy Moloney, Paul Carrack, Scorpions, Sinead O'Connor*, The Hooters, Thomas Dolby, Ute Lemper, Van Morrison.Performer – Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko.Other – Ian Bridges, Peter Brandt, William Shapland.Other – Carolyne Waters, Jonathan Park, Keith Bradley, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO DFC*, Mark Fisher (5), Mick Worwood, Tony Hollingsworth.Orchestrated By, Conductor – Michael Kamen.Mixed By – Nick Griffiths, Nigel Jopson.Keyboards – Nick Glennie-Smith, Peter Wood (2).Featuring – The East Berlin Radio Orchestra*, The East Berline Radio Choir*, The Military Orchestra Of The Soviet Army*.Design, Art Direction – 4i Collaboration, Mark Norton (2).Backing Vocals – Jim Farber, Jim Haas, Joe Chamay*, John Joyce*.
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