Talk:The Wall Concert in Berlin

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Contents 1 The Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. 2 Strange Information 3 5 Million? 4 The mistakes (in the concert)

[edit] The Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief.

I've searched the internet high and low for information on this charity, bit to no avail. I know it's mentioned on the DVD and therefore must have existed. Does anyone have any information, as I'd like to start the article on it? -- Funky Monkey  (talk)  02:53, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange Information

In the tracklisting of the concert, the track "In the Flesh?" is credited to "Scorpions". However if you click the "In the Flesh?"-link the song in said to be by Pink Floyd. Just wanted to bring it some attention. Have i misunderstood something? --83.72.7.63 21:39, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

The song is by Pink Floyd. Roger Waters was the band's previous frontman and was a major creative force on the PF album [[[The Wall]], which is the album preformed live at this concert. When Roger did the concert, his membership with the group had been over for a few years., so the band that played the album was never asked to do this concert. Instead, Roger made it a star-studded extravanza, with artists like The Band, Ute Lemper and the aformented Scorpions. MajorB 22:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 5 Million?

5 Million people in 35 countries watched it on TV? Should be closer to 500 Millions, I guess...? --81.223.145.66 10:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Should be cited either way, je guess... 205.188.117.13 10:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

There are typically two figures for this kind of international broadcast — how many people could possibly watch it, a measure of how widely available the broadcast is, and how many people actually did watch it. The second number is of course usually much, much less than the first number, but press releases and credulous media people often confuse the two. In the case of this particular broadcast, 500 million for the first number and 5 million for the second number both sound possible. 192.102.82.253 20:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The mistakes (in the concert)

I remember listening to it live (and still have it on tape from the radio broadcast - somewhere.) Anyway, from what I remember, during the power messup on ABitW pt1, they actually rolled the production backwards and redid the song.

Also, on Mother, the guys they had singing the Mother parts didn't know they lyrics and really flubbed it up. From what I had heard is that after the show was over they re-recorded that track, people in the audience who were leaving heard it and turned around. This also is why they are holding the lyrics and Roger was standing there kinda prompting them.

Whether not any of this is true or not, I don't know - that's just what I remember from 15 or so years ago.