All of the videos made to promote the Berlin concert are videos of "Another Brick in The Wall" (Part 2)," fortunately only one of which is with Cyndi Lauper's vocals. All the rest are renditions done by Roger Waters and his Bleeding Hearts Band (which to my knowledge are completely unreleased versions). However, only Roger is shown, and there is no listing of who else is p laying on them with him.
Special thanks goes to James Cooper, REG Member and owner of Hip Cat Records in Illinois, for sending me these videos to review for the REG Newsletter. I heretofore did not even know that these videos existed!!!
They are a gold mine for collectors and all of them, of course, are quite fantastic. Professionally done and made for TV, they could easily have been aired on MTV and used to promote the album. However they did not see the light of day on TV, at least in the US.
The video begins with the sound of the helicopter rotor blades at the intro to Another Brick In The Wall" (Part 2). We are shown a shot of the circular screen on stage in Berlin. As the song begins we see Roger playing bass on stage with a wall backdrop behind him as he begins to sing.
This looks as if it's an indoor stage set which was created to make the video. As Roger is shown singing and playing, the words ""Berlin 90"" are projected on the background wall. The video cuts away from the stage and then back again showing scenes of; the bomb-bay of a jet bomber dropping bombs, artillery guns firing, soldiers carrying their wounded, bombed and burning buildings, and the crosses of a graveyard.
Video No.1
Made for airplay on TV, this first video aired on Australian TV just prior to the concert and was presumably made not only to promote the concert in Berlin, but especially to promote The Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, the benefit for which the concert took place.
Back on stage the word "Relief" is projected on "The Wall" backdrop and text scrolls across the bottom of the screen; "One hundred million lives have been lost in two world wars and subsequent conflicts." The screen cuts to view starving refugees in Africa, then cuts back to the stage where marching hammers are projected on "The Wall", a cut to the Scarfe wife character, and then back to Roger singing.
The word "Help" is now projected on the screen, starving refugees are shown again, and then on "The Wall" is the symbol for the Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief. As the song continues, soldiers and POW's are shown, and again we see Roger on stage, various images flashing on "The Wall", as text once again scrolls across the bottom of the screen; "The Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief has been created with the aim of raising $10 for every life lost. This will create a permanent fund of one billion dollars, the income from which will be used to relieve disasters in perpetuity, creating a living memorial to those whose lives were lost. For every life lost....a life saved. ÑAn album of the live concert will be released shortly after the event."
As the song ends, pictures of the stage in Berlin are shown, and then the logo for the show ends the video with the words; "The Wall-Berlin 90", 21-July, In Aid of The Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief."
"Another Brick in "The Wall" (Part 2)," again begins this video. We see the ""Berlin 90"" hammer logo with the indoor Wall stage set in the background. The camera pans over the stage and then from above Roger looks up and starts to sing.
Roger is now shown from the front of the stage, singing and playing bass, as a video title flashes in the foreground stating " Roger Waters, Another Brick in The Wall" (Part 2)," next to which there is what looks like a video station, or program, logo with the words 'Classic Hits'.
The camera pans across the stage at Roger through a chain link fence, and over "The Wall" upon which are projected Scarfe characters. As Rog is singing, the words ""The Wall"- BerlinÑ 21 July 1990" are projected behind him on "The Wall". The camera zooms in for close-ups of Roger playing the bass.
Scenes of a bomber dropping bombs, soldiers, and bombed burning buildings are shown, as a message begin scrolling across the bottom of the screen. "Brisbane viewers stay watching 'Video Hits,' as following today at midday is the exclusive "The Wall Berlin 1990".... everywhere else across the country it will be screened tonight at 6PM here on Channel Ten." A great shot of the stage in Berlin is shown in all its colorful and smoke filled glory with many different camera angles.
Rog is then again shown playing on the studio stage, as hammers projected on "The Wall" behind him march along. We then see Scarfe's 'wife' character on the circular screen of the Berlin stage, and then Roger on the studio stage again with the word help projected on "The Wall".
Scenes of a military C-5 transport jet are shown dropping relief supplies to starving refugees in Ethiopia. The logo for The Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief is projected on "The Wall", then we see scenes of POW's and soldiers and artillery cannons firing. The Brisbane viewer-notice scrolls across the bottom of the screen again. Scenes from the Berlin concert rehearsals are shown as the guitar solo is played and we see the 'surrogate band' (The Scorpions) playing, the mean-looking inflatable pig coming up over "The Wall", and soldiers in crossed hammer uniforms marching back and forth across the stage with the band playing in the background.
The song ends as the camera zooms out for a long shot of the entire Berlin stage and concert area.
Following these videos on the tape Jim sent, there are also videos of commercials for the concert and the album from various countries and news clips. I thought I'd include them in the video review just for fun, and info for our members.
We then see scenes from the Berlin concert dress rehearsal as the reporter reveals estimates of an audience of 180,000 and a TV audience of over 1 billion worldwide. We then see stage plans and sketches and drawings of the concert grounds . Then the camera pans over Potsdam Platz and the stage as the narration continues with talk about The Wall's construction, the inflatable Pig, and the Teacher puppet, and the participation of real soldiers from both the East (the Soviet Union and East Germany) and the West (The US and England). The reporter describes the meaning and the concept behind "The Wall" as being about alienation and the need for communication. The commercial then cuts back to the interview with Roger,
Roger: "It's about how people build walls around themselves and how rock and roll bands build walls between themselves and their audience by becoming obsessed with profit. The central character becomes immured and turns into a despot because he loses contact with his neighbors. So symbolically it all fits together neatly."
The reporter states that Roger, who listened to "The Wall again recently, says even though it's been eleven years since the release of the album that it still stands up well, and that though he is no longer a member of Pink Floyd he intends to be faithful to the original work. Roger: "People that will be at the concert or watch it on TV will come away with the sense that they are doing something that is positive, together, and that we're understanding together in the same way that we did with Live Aid." The news story ends.
Brian Adams is shown playing and singing "Young Lust". Then Brian Adams, in an interview says: "My part's insignificant really, I'm just another brick in The Wall really."
More scenes of the show are shown as John Tesh tells about the construction of The Wall and about the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. We then see scenes from the Scorpions playing "In the Flesh," Tesh tells of the Sorpions fulfilling a dream. We see Klaus Meine, lead singer of the Scorpions, in an interview. He says "We always wanted to play in East Germany but we were not allowed to."
Tesh says "the concert did have it's problems; blown electrical circuits, speakers that didn't work, and video screens out of sync, but it didn't spoil the magnificent spectacle."
Cyndi Lauper is shown singing "Another Brick in The Wall Part 2", and then back stage commenting "I just loved dancing on Hitler's grave, you know what I'm saying."
Leonard Cheshire talks about Roger Waters. Roger Waters talks about Leonard Cheshire and how they chose the location of the show. The newscast cuts to five US Army soldiers who talk about their part in the show as generals standing along side Roger on stage during the songs "Run like Hell," "In the Flesh," and "Waiting for the Worms."
Roger talks about using Soviet forces as scenes of marching and parading soldiers are shown on stage.
Sinnead O'Conner is shown singing "Mother." Then backstage she comments: "It represents the wall of rubbish that you get fed from the time when you are a child. From your school or your parents. Not on purpose, but accidentally through people's ignorance."
The Wall on stage is shown coming down at the end of the concert as the news clip ends with one of the band members saying; "If you consider that for 29 years there was nothing here but the East German border police, and a host of rabbits, well, the border police have gone away, the rabbits are underground, and it's free territory. If you consider too it is where Hitler's bunker was, something quite extraordinary is happening here today."