I have this on DVD, and re-watched it last week. The Wall was performed in Berlin in 1990 to celebrate the demise of the Berlin Wall. The concert is right up there with the best concerts I’ve ever seen, though I have to admit I haven’t seen that many. You can watch the whole thing, in bits and pieces, on youtube. I chose this because, teachers these days being left wing heroes, or at least martyrs, it didn’t seem quite right to put up Another Brick in the Wall. This video, Mother, with Sinead O’Connor, Roger Waters and the Band does nicely, and it has the added benefit of including a couple of shots of a Band member wearing the baseball cap of a certain team from the Hub.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure the story of a self pitying rocker is really all that fitting for a celebration of freedom, though the finale is certainly apropos.
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