In case you haven’t had your fill of talk about live performances of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” this month will see a re-release of Roger Waters‘ Berlin, Germany, performance from 1990.
“The Wall Live in Berlin” will be re-issued with bonus material as 2-DVD and 2-CD sets on March 29 in the U.S.
Some of the extras promised are:
- An extended cut of the “Behind The Wall” documentary, expanding it from 30 to 70 minutes.
- The original, unedited “warts and all” broadcast of the event. It includes an introduction by Leonard Cheshire, the then-72-year-old British war hero-turned-activist who founded the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, the beneficiary of Waters’ concert. (Cheshire died the summer following the concert.)
- Footage shot by Floyd animator Ian Emes of Rupert Everett (Pink), Marianne Faithful and Ute Lemper for stage projections, edited here as theatrical promotional clips.
- Original, full-screen Gerald Scarfe animations
- New liner notes by Record Collector editor Daryl Easlea
The concert took place at Berlin’s Potzdamer Platz on July 21, 1990, and was originally released by Mercury Records in September ’90.
It received its first re-release in 2003, with new packaging, artwork and liner notes.
