![]() This had resonance for Roger Waters, since his father, a former conscientious objector who then volunteered for the front ranks in World War II, and was killed at the Anzio beach-head in Southern Italy in 1944, when Roger was only 5 months old. The Wall became a star-studded megaconcert to benefit the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, started by World War II bomber pilot Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, a holder of the Victoria Cross and latterly a tireless worker for charity. Roger Waters had once made a promise never to perform The Wall again after the 1981 tour until the bricks fell in Berlin, so when they did, he had the opportunity to make good on his promise. Nobody had really expected the Berlin Wall to come down in 1989, and the speed with which it did so caught many by surprise. Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Carrack, Sinead O’Connor, Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of The Band, Marianne Faithfull, Thomas Dolby and local artists The Scorpions, all took part. ![]() Over 350,000 people attended the event which was also broadcast live to fifty-two countries throughout the world. On July 21st 1990, Roger Waters’ The Wall took place in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin at the site of Berlin Wall, which had been torn down only 8 months previously. ![]()
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