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Factually one of the Greatest Live Events of all Time!
The fabulous opus of Roger Waters From Pink Floyd was already a top rock project, especially for concept themed albums. But the best just got better, although the other members were not there, it was by their own choice. Waters was quoted as saying that He and Pink Floyd would never do "The Wall" live again as long as the wall in Berlin was standing. This was a benefit concert for the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. The $20 per ticket concert soon became free, as hundreds of thousands of people flooded the historical site in Germany. You can watch an endless 'sea' of people having the time of their lives, as we all did watching them 're-live' tearing down the wall, accompanied by Pink Floyd music. Lead guitars blew away all expectations ("Comfortably Numb" was never better) as this unbelievable concert of incredible talent touchingly put on the best live performance in rock history. The original band members are not fueding as so many rumours indicate. This was a project of great excitement, joy, and kick-butt rock 'n' roll. Roger as an ego-maniac couldn't be farther from the truth, the fraility of his words and music indicate many insecurities, heart-breaks, and fears: much like the human experience warrants. "The Tide is Turning" is a bonus at the end (from Radio KAOS, Waters' solo project written 3 years before the event). It's a song of hope for a safer, brighter future...and the come-togetherness the song brings, speaks of world peace and Waters' wish to bury the hatchet, both privately and politically. This deserves a 10 star rating. Gilmour, Mason, and Wright fans will not be disappointed unless they are bitter (against the wishes of ALL the band members). All of the other original session members who toured and recorded with The Floyd were there. Not to disappoint!

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Three stars because this is NOT Pink Floyd.
It seems that no one has noticed that this is not Pink Floyd performing on this video, it is Roger Waters. And even though he was Floyd's bassist, singer, and lyrisist, this production shows that he would rather forget all of that. First off, save a few (very good) songs, Roger Waters did write "The Wall", and indeed it is a masterfull work of rock music concept, second only to The Who's "Tommy", but the music on this video is clearly not the music of Pink Floyd. I'm sorry, but without David Gilmour's majestic guitar playing, songs like "Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2", "Young Lust" and especially the song Gilmour penned entirely, "Comfortably Numb", are massacared. The slamming drums of Nick Mason on "In the Flesh" are sadly gone, and Richard Wright's beutiful piano on "Mother" and "One of my Turns" is repaced by harsh sounding keyboards. Forget it, this video is not "The Wall" heard on the album, nor is it "The Wall" seen on the wonderfully twisted movie version.

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It's just not floyd...
As a die-hard Pink Floyd fan, I wasn't very stunned by this DVD.
It's a big spectacular show and it must have been fabulous to all of the people who were there, but I'm not really fond of all the 'stars' like Brian Adams or Cindy Lauper who just don't fit in.
The Wall is a very good but also a very dark album, and it's not the right album to be played by a bunch of famous rockartists.
Most of the time I skip to the parts that Waters sings, for me, these are the highlights.

I really hope someday the original Wall-show (of '81) will be released on DVD of VHS.