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BBC World Service interview with Waters about the Berlin '90 show
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 21:08 EDT
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From: "Jeremy Crampton =Master Ultan=" <ELE@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
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Subject: Waters interview on Berlin concert
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To: eclipse@beach.cis.ufl.edu
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Hi Floydians..re the recent discussion of Waters at "the Wall" the
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BBC World Service just broadcast an interview with Waters.
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He's doing it with some guy called Group Captain Cheshire, who was
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a bomber pilot who bombed Berlin, but who has since worked mainly
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for charities, and who has a charity called the World Memorial
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Disaster Relief fund or something. The BBC said it could be the
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biggest rock concert ever.
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I managed to record most of it, so here ya go..
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RW: Well, on the 21st of July, ten o'clock GMT I and a band are going
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to be performing The Wall at the Potsdammerplatz which is the no-mans-
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land between East and West Berlin, on a very grand scale. We're
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building a wall which is 600 feet long and 60 feet high, and using
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big inflatables and three military bands, one from India, one from
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Australia, and one from Canada, the Red Army Choir, in aid of the
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Memorial Fund for disaster Relief.
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BBC: For people who don't know, it's such a big album in the West, The Wall
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and it was such a success for PF, for people who don't know what The
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Wall is all about, tell us briefly about that.
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RW: The album and the concert developed out of me doing a tour with PF
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in 1977 with an album called Animals, that we had out then. We toured
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America and played only in large outdoor stadiums, lots and lots of
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them, finishing up in the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. And I loathed
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it, I thought it was disgusting in every way, and I kept saying to
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people 'I'm not really enjoying this, you know, there is something
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very wrong with this'. And the answer to that was 'oh really? Yeah
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well, do yo know we grossed over four million dollars today' and this
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went on more and more, 'do you know how many people--98,000 people here'
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and it began to dawn on me that the only thing anybody was interested in
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was the grosses. Which is not why I got into music really. And so at a
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certain point something in my brain snapped, and I thought this is
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awful, and so I developed the idea of doing a rock concert where we
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built a wall across the front of the stage, that divided the audience
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from the performers, because it was a wall that I felt was really there,
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and that was not a physical wall, an invisible one.
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BBC: Where's the money going to go to?
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RW: Well it goes towards Leonard Cheshire's Fund, the World War Memorial
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Fund, for disaster relief, and it goes toward the lump sum of 500
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million that he hopes to accumulate, and it would go to Armenia or
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Montserrat, or wherever, wherever there is a need.
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BBC: Ex-Pink Floyd member Roger Waters talking about his mega concert this
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July in Berlin in aid of international disaster relief.
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