July 21, 1990 –
Roger Waters staged an over-sized version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall near the Berlin Wall, on this date, to celebrate the actual wall’s fall several months earlier.
During the live TV transmission the second and third songs, The Thin Ice and Another Brick in the Wall part I, were disrupted when a circuit breaker tripped. It was reset, but immediately tripped again. As part of the precautions against such events marring the video release of the concert not only was the previous day’s full dress rehearsal filmed but the stage was also cleared (and as need be rebuilt) once the concert was over to allow further performances of any songs that had suffered from audio or video problems be re shot. Much of the footage of The Thin Ice and Another Brick in the Wall part I, and some from The Happiest Days Of Our Lives used on the Video, Laserdisc and DVD releases is from these encore performances.
The Haus of Dcaligari 