It was a dramatic occasion, but sort of a stillborn event. No one knows how many people came, but the number was somewhere in the region of 300,000 (150,000 tickets were sold, but the organizers brought down the fences so that the approximately as many people without tickets could get in, too). It seemed at the time, and even more so in retrospect, to be an interruption of the fantastic-sized concept. The concert itself wasn’t that good, I thought. When I got to the car, David Bates said to me “Did you see the look on those guys’ faces? They looked like they wanted to shoot us and were pissed that they can’t anymore.”Īlso Read Watch Lucius Cover Pink Floyd’s ‘Mother’ With Roger Waters For as much as tourists dilute the character of a place, at least they are symbols of a benignity that had been missing from these parts for nearly 30 years. I figured they’d be happy to see tourists. I smiled at the impassive-looking cops in the car, cradling rocks in my arms. Just then an East Berlin police car rolled slowly past. I relented and went back to one kid and bought two pieces from him, too. We could have picked all we wanted off the ground, five feet from where the kids operated, but my friends each bought pieces from them and, satisfied with their overall haul, returned to the car. The largest chunks were on the west side, but the colorful ones were on the east, where liberated East Germans had gleefully graffitied the canvas that jailed them.Ī couple of East German teenagers were enterprisingly bashing colored chunks out of the wall to sell to people like us. There were human-sized holes in the wall, like crude doors, and we stepped in and out of them, to find better chunks, crossing back and forth from East to West, half a dozen times in five minutes. For 28 years this barrier forbid an entire people to touch it and now four American vacationers rummaged among its remains for choice paperweights, picking up and tossing aside imperfectly shaped stones and stacking up appealing ones. We got out of the car and went up to the wall to pick up souvenirs, fragments of granite tyranny lying at the base of this now defeated monster.
The building project was drab, of course, but sunlit, and its grassy backlot was lifeless, broken ground that separated the apartments from the road, which ran along the internal edge of the awful, death-chilled wall. It was completely quiet, a perfectly ordinary Sunday afternoon. So we looked for an alternative route and found, literally, a hole in the wall, and, like Alice stepping through the looking-glass, drove through it into an East German building complex. Checkpoint Charlie was gone and you no longer needed visas to cross from one Berlin to the other, but traffic at the main crossings was congested. In 2005 he released an opera, Ça Ira, and joined Pink Floyd at the Live 8 concert in London, on 2 July 2005, for their first public performance with Waters in 24 years.The day after The Wall concert in Berlin’s infamous Potzdamer Platz, David Bates, Dawn Bridges, and Chris Roberts from PolyGram Records, and I drove to East Berlin. He was also the lyrical mastermind behind many of the band's concept albums, especially The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut, as well as being the originator of much of the band's well-known symbolism, such as the Pink Floyd pigs.įollowing this, he began a moderately successful solo career releasing three studio albums and staging one of the largest concerts ever, The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990.
He is best known for his 1965–1985 career with the band Pink Floyd he was credited as their main songwriter (after the departure of Syd Barrett), bass player and one of their lead vocalists (along with David Gilmour and, to a lesser extent, Richard "Rick" Wright). He was also the lyrical masterm George Roger Waters is an English rock musician singer, bassist, guitarist, songwriter, and composer. George Roger Waters is an English rock musician singer, bassist, guitarist, songwriter, and composer.
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