On June 17, 1981, at Earls Court in London, Pink Floyd performed The Wall for the last time. At the time, few imagined anyone would have the cash nor the cojones to restage the show, but in 1990, Roger Waters – who left the band in 1985 – rallied an impressive array of celebrated guests and performed the entire thing again in Berlin.
The show took place on Potsdamer Platz, a former public square that had been bisected by The Berlin Wall. Local heroes The Scorpions opened the show with In the Flesh?, while some of the more unlikely turns included Joni Mitchell (Goodbye Blue Sky), a version of Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 led by Cyndi Lauper, and a version of The Trial featuring contributions from a cast that included Marianne Faithfull and actor Albert Finney.
