Roger Waters/Van Morrison - Comfortably Numb - The Wall Live in Berlin 1990

Roger Waters/Van Morrison - Comfortably Numb - The Wall Live in Berlin 1990
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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.
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.
"I did an interview a couple of years ago for a guy called Redbeard…" Waters recalled. "He said, 'Would you ever perform The Wall again on stage?' And I said, 'No'… Indoors, it made no sense financially; it's too expensive. And, as it's partially an attack on the inherently greedy nature of stadium rock shows, it would be wrong to do it in stadiums… I said, 'Well, I might do it outdoors if they ever take the wall down in Berlin.'… The Memorial Fund was in a council meeting, and felt they needed some kind of an event to focus attention on it… So I agreed to have a meeting with Leonard Cheshire. And I was very impressed, and said I would do what I could, although I thought it was very unlikely that it would come off… Then, in November [1989], when the wall started coming down, we started negotiating."
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.
The production was designed by Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park. The stage design featured a 550-foot-long (170 m) and 82-foot-high (25 m) wall. Most of the wall was built before the show and the rest was built progressively through the first part of the show. The wall was then knocked down at the end of the show.
Initially, Waters tried to get guest musicians like Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen and Eric Clapton but they were either unavailable or turned it down. Both Rod Stewart, who was to sing "Young Lust", and Joe Cocker were confirmed to appear but when the original planned concert date was put back both were unavailable. Also, on the same 1989 interview with Redbeard, Waters stated that "I might even let Dave play guitar." On 30 June 1990 backstage at the Knebworth Pink Floyd performance at Knebworth '90, during a pre-show interview, David Gilmour responded to Roger's statement on an interview with Kurt Loder on MTV by saying that "he and the rest of Pink Floyd (Nick Mason and Rick Wright) had been given the legal go-ahead to perform with Roger but had not been contacted" and "he never asked us" (in a fake crying voice) with Nick Mason saying "if only that phone can ring". Two days later, on 2 July 1990 Waters appeared on the American rock radio call-in show Rockline and contradicted his Gilmour invite by saying, "I don't know where Dave got that idea"
In the end, Hollingsworth (with Waters assisting) brought in guest artists including Snowy White, 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 I whistle.

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[@yvespontiac2012]

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[@KILLER_B-y6t]

Did this happen on New Years Eve 1990?

[@bills9530]

Van Morrison version is to die for

[@prahseguod]

Van was absolutely the perfect choice to sing the chorus of this song.

[@MarcGoudreau]

Apparently Van Morrison was really serious about being an inconspicuous "celebrity" so getting him to Germany for this concert was like calling Moses down from his mountain. In any event, the sound of that man belting out Comfortably Numb can send a chill down your back :)

[@ampzamp]

An astonishing confession of compositional genius. Van Morrison cannot be bought.

[@jeffcollins5320]

I was there! Watched the sound check the day before too. One of the epic concerts in rock history. Unforgettable...

[@cristianalfonso335]

Que afortunado eres saludos..

[@toddkettler1366]

I was there too. Beyond incredible. Best concert ever.

[@peterschou21]

Me too. Totally unforgetable!

[@montanagal6958]

The Wall is VERY RELEVANT TODAY!

[@Ahmad-Mounir44]

What I really really and really love about this version is the fact that Morrison repeated the second chorus after the last solo which made it super EPIC in my opinion. That was an amazing idea from Waters !!! ♥♥

[@darachkeane7047]

Have to mention this fact,I was a young lad at the time lucky enough to be at this concert cause my father was playing at it,but what I witnessed back stage watching the concert on what seemed like a 100inch monitor was Sinéad O'Connor watching the show from right up in front of the monitor & getting the greenroom flowers display fucked at her the whole time by the rest of the so-called professional musicians,that memory has stayed with me ever since, shame on them so called professionals,shame..... Possibly the most talented in the fkn room that night!!!

[@shevy7197]

I was 4, but wherever I was, I was definitely "comfortably numb" xxxx

[@user-fs2lv2nf5y]

Roger Waters must life forever 💞!!!He is not only a great musicians He is a man with a huge.Soul and a kind heart ❤️ From Russia with love.

[@luarluarwick8304]

Потому-то он и выкинул отсюда Дэвида Гилмора?

[@annelu6142]

Concordo,fico encantada pelo Roger Waters😍,sou fã brasileira✊

[@sachmo0196]

Had the VHS converted to DVD decades ago (hard to get then). Peeps are astounded by it by this very day. Yes, the entire 1990 concert. I'll still have it when the internet goes down.

[@marciacenturione3681]

Alguém mais em 2024? Lindíssima Lindíssima ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-on6zo1is8r]

Роджер, дай Бог тебе здоровья!!! Творчество на высочайшем уровне , уважаю, справедлив, не русофоб., .Слушаю уже 40 лет!!!

[@TheMRRSA999]

Absolutely incredible.

[@BOBMAX68]

Roger Waters IS a Poet Warrior.

[@TheAbsinthking]

I've been there with two of my best Friends. What an amazing weekend and a fantastic concert

[@darachkeane7047]

46 years of age & i still remember this as the best ever live performance of any kind 👏👏👏👏👏

[@stellakmarcum8346]

This song makes me feel sad and cry! I still like it!

[@ampzamp]

...the authority of Van Morrison...

[@eagleforever6495]

God i love this version!

[@c3posolo927]

Insane! so relevant with what's going on in the world today.

[@joeratley1062]

Wish I was there ☮️✌️🌌

[@user-uk6gq3xb3q]

One word....Masterpiece ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@patjlinnane]

I remember this night do vividly

[@Rilez616]

The whole album is a work of art, easily one of my favourite albums of all time, easily my favourite pink floyd album. Thank god the band kept their shit together to produce this masterpiece, even though i am not the greatest fan of roger or some of his views i think he was truly a genius and without him the album would not have been great as it is, same with david and the rest of the band

[@prahseguod]

1st heard the album at my friend Dean Maples when he was fresh out of the Navy. He had an ass kicking stereo. He introduced us to the term "doobie" we had simply called it a joint for years. He educated us to many things. 😂

[@user-qw8qn7tu8n]

Un temazo de 2 grandes : ROGER WATERS Y VAN MORRISON cantando este temazo De PINK FLOYD que es un clasico .

[@peterfurness3504]

Rogers is a voice against the war and Van Morison pushed back against covid. Wow two heroes of the 70s who were not afraid.

[@user-hy3ds8zw8l]

I didn`t see Van Morrison rushing into any Intensive care Covid wards to shake the hands of the patients. The man is an imbecile and a disgrace to the good name of Belfast.

[@Kadwasacchh]

Roger is a fuckin idiot who supports muslims, the people who don’t tolerate music, love, peace, harmony.. you as well as Waters are fuckin idiots

[@christheghostwriter]

Waters is right, but Morrison was a fucking idiot, and so are you if you think you can "push back" against a viral pandemic. People like you are too effing stupid to understand how lucky you are to live in a world with vaccines. Your ancestors would slap the stupid right out of you if they were alive today

[@TacomaPaul]

Van Morrison... and The Band. 1980... Berlin Wall The wall from November..... East Berlin '79. And they took them down. ;-)

[@Luca33600]

1990 and 1989 not 1980 and 1979

[@512Berlinetta]

Timeless!

[@C4422-t1b]

Absolutely

[@giulianomartino62dare8]

Roger Waters Forever

[@user-ud6kt8wt7v]

Best Konzert ever!

[@dietmarfeldtner2227]

Roger Waters ein grosser Künstler,ebenso Van Morrison so eine markante Stimme.

[@JohnDoe64738]

Danke fürs Hochladen

[@gearcam]

Epic concert! I was a bit too young and a bit too far away to be there. Snowy White plays fine, but if Dave Gilmour had been there... that solo would've been much better for sure.

[@asazaz1361]

بهترین اهنگ دنیا

[@gustavfloyd3469]

NRO 1 en mi lista de CONCIERTOS a nivel mundial , hasta hoy comienzos de Octubre 2023. Saludos Floydianos. Gustav

[@marciacenturione3681]

SURREAL❤❤❤❤

[@elainekerpp6057]

Me sentindo confortavelmente anestesiada!!!!Música linda!!!

[@scottflowe2875]

Gorgeous

[@ednasoaresbrasil3040]

Wonderful presentation! Congratulations for all! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@meldev16]

Epic..so awesome and will live on forever in my house❤❤❤

[@valeriestreck5885]

Que de souvenirs Reste dans ma mémoire

[@brushfuller330]

Saw this in Phiiy 2011 at Citizen Bank Park. Snowy and Lee were mesmerizing

[@terrytibbs5678]

I was inter railing round Europe when this was on. Wish I'd caught that train to Berlin. Did end up watching the World Cup semi final in Turin though .

[@briandurward]

So in addition to Van; Levon Helm (The Band) Rick Danko (The Band) James Galway Internationalist Flutist)

[@swhip897]

Snowy White and who was the other one on high?😊

[@professornuke7562]

Van Morrison. Voice in rags, can hardly breathe. Bravura performance. Lots of blokes with guitars trying to nail the most famous guitar solo ever without sounding too much like HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED at a Waters show. Of course it's better with the right voices in the chorus and verses. I'm still getting over what fame did to Van Morrison.

[@joelwateres]

Wow thank you Steven Brother-t

[@sirjackhaji116]

David gilmoure can doit only this solo

[@iagonieves5046]

Madre mía....🙌🙌

[@patriziatoniutti4544]

bellissimo ....ma la cosa più importante che si nota è che per un Gilmour ci vogliono due chitarre e due chitarristi per un Wright occorrono due tastiere e altrettanti tastieristi. Questa è la cartina di tornasole dei Pink Floyd!

[@justinbrochet]

I ain't no maniacal Pink Floyd fan. So to me this version of comfortably numb is nice.

[@CLAP2829]

From far, the best version to me !!! In fact all the concert is incredible

[@mcgurkryans]

The other singers shouldn’t have bothered showing up. This was Vans show from the start.

[@JAYZIGGY5]

Personally I would've rather heard Levon and Rick do the Gilmour parts and leave Van out of this song all together. Just not a good fit for him.

[@Joseph-vn8gh]

@@JAYZIGGY5 I agree actually. DiFonzo played one of the best first solos, but Morrison’s voice is too staccato. I always say to myself, DiFonzo’s guitar with the angelic voice from the guitarist in Roger’s In The Flesh ~2002 tour would’ve been the best version of this song imo

[@strothermartin5368]

@@Joseph-vn8gh Morrison just butchered a classic.

[@ilovenyiloveny1140]

@@strothermartin5368 He nailed it! Love Gilmore’s and this!

[@strothermartin5368]

@@ilovenyiloveny1140 we agree to disagree!

[@martindelmoral9759]

Sierta mente incofortable como siempre👌👌🤟🌌🎇👍🐟🎸🤟🎧 animo 👍🐟🎸🎵🎶🎵👉🌛🌹

[@desmondmolloy9173]

These days, Waters would be singing in Russian. I just try to remember him and Van the way they used to be.

[@blah146568766i87]

Ok

[@gustavfloyd3469]

Is there anybody out there ? * Roger , que has hecho con nuestro himno versión 2022/23 live tours ???

[@Zootallures100]

Snowy White is a master genius. After Gilmour best guitarist to attack the epic solo

[@shtyrlyaevv]

Как я переживал когда не приехали... Банки.. Деньги...

[@sydmore]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@giuseppemaggiore4976]

I muri a terra ❤

[@tfrf0042]

💕💕💕

[@FredHerbert999]

Who's was also sent by The Departed? Van Morrison is what makes this song. Best version, easy. I'm not really a fan of Roger Waters' high-pitched voice.

[@fatssalvador9140]

The genius of the song is David Gilmour. The final solo is adequate but not in the same universe as Gilmour

[@Sietsenl]

What is the speed of the fast notes in the second solo, I was guessing about bpm 130?

[@bz4freedom]

Honestly my favorite version of comfortably numb

[@dude6894]

You forgot to mention Rick and Levon.

[@artomarto679]

Will we ever see the likes again... I don't think so

[@jamessanderson5560]

Anyone who said van Morrison butchers any song need to come and see me in Bristol

[@GinaMontgomery-pe9gg]

Agreed! Loved this the version when I first heard it. Van took a classic song to the next level ❤️

[@robpinelli]

Gilmore needs to get over it. He will never be as famous as Pink Floyd/Roger Waters. And Floyd would still be Touring today!

[@okorinokori7872]

Who are the 2 lead gitarists in the white and beige jackets?

[@peterli6138]

Rick di Fonzo and Snowy White, from The Bleeding Heart Band

[@okorinokori7872]

They're both great guitarists. Thank you.@@peterli6138

[@bartolomeegdogawa8744]

il est ou le concert complet??? il y été suprimer de youtube???

[@Sledgehammer455]

oui, malheureusement.

[@cshaver10]

Le spectacle complet a été bloqué par youtube. Vous pouvez regarder le spectacle complet sous forme de clips avec cette liste de lecture. kzbin.info/aero/PL1364044A82C6C895

[@charlescollins7294]

Alast ist GooTe "Nina" und der kinder ist goote""

[@chaztech9824]

it strane im a old man now but i played this on guitar is this a simulation?

[@swhip897]

Snowy White and who?? is the other on guitar on high?

[@rogeralmanzora5397]

Guitar Rick di Fonzo

[@jean-pierrelaurens9457]

Who was playing guitar? Jimmy Page and....?

[@charlescollins7294]

Und Der Mhiena Namme ist Vasse? Ich Verstain /Verstein Hanley, Hilda**, Bremen EN DUETCH! Yah der Frau ist en the Goot'e! En Amricano 'Just a crush".:. To young for me tid bit,'. Best of friend's Sightseeing photo taking with the telescopic len's!

[@erniemaalat3588]

numbing chipping gun to crumble😁

[@fitp97]

Van Morrison should have been the only one singing this song , that’s it and that’s all …..

[@martinholmes100]

I had to watch this from behind the settee with my flesh prickling with embarrassment. The backing vocals, including Van, sound like a bunch of Pub drunks! The lead guitarists sound lacks any attack whatsoever.

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

Is this song all about how Roger got Syd labelled "an incurable madman" so he could get control of Floyd and steal all Syds ideas with virtual impunity?

[@SuperHammaren]

All other band members witnessed Syd sad decline and talked about that on camera on many occasions. So no. It is about Waters once feeling bad and sick but because of a shot from a doctor he was able to perform during a concert anyway. But feeling numb.

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

@@SuperHammaren Interesting how Waters conflated so much of himself with Syd as in the wall film it's clearly Syd being given injected and the manager did say he and Waters found Syd comatose in dressing room then both marched Syd onstage and arms hung by his side throughout clearly unwell maybe spiked again as he played the late 67 gigs fine. They never talked about Waters making Syd appear to stop producing music whilst putting blocks on his songs like Scream Thy and Vegetable Man, no wonder Saucerful was so crap.

[@joeratley1062]

You say that like it's a bad thing. 🧐

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

@@joeratley1062 Well Syds songs were fun and upllifting, Waters songs are doomy depression fests not to mention it's most unsporting to sabotage a band mates future in order to boost anothers. If Waters was so great he should've just fkd off and made his own band.

[@giulianomartino62dare8]

Bella musica ma' un regista troppo scarso, luci messe male, il pubblico non è mai inquadrato, si fa' fatica a capire che genere di palco è, troppo buio.

[@chrisp.9200]

Who exactly came up with the idea that Van Morrison was the best choice to sing this song??. Geezus that’s painful! The music was brilliant but ANYONE else on vocals please!

[@gintaras3291]

back vocals was very bad

[@tomislavferic4982]

gay

[@strothermartin5368]

A disgrace! Only David can do that. Guitar solo and singing.Van Morrison just butchered it.

[@sebastianfuentes1076]

Yeah right 👌👌

[@davidpreciado4114]

It was a butchering of an Anthem solo.....

[@frenkimizdrak2871]

what the hell was a disgrace here

[@strothermartin5368]

@@frenkimizdrak2871 Only David can that solo.

[@SuperHammaren]

But he got the lyrics right at least, which Gilmour could not in the 2011 concert.

[@jmillz713]

I think Van completely ruins this song. He sounds terrible.

[@nathd1748]

I thought I was the only one who thought he sounded utter shite!

[@inkfooltv7854]

I always hated the way he sang the smooth parts.

[@strothermartin5368]

@@inkfooltv7854 Disgrace!

[@TheCgraham18]

I wouldn’t say RUIN, but he was not good here. Disappointing performance from him

[@aldodainese6105]

Magistrale!

[@user-jl1ik3nk7f]

Уотерс велик!

[@waltermiranda5548]

Falta david ..