POP/ROCK - April 23, 1990

‘The Wall’ at Berlin Wall: A $6.5-million rock extravaganza featuring top international stars will be held at the Berlin Wall as a “memorial for all war dead,” former Pink Floyd band leader Roger Waters said. Organizers say some of the world’s best-known rock performers, a cast of 300 extras, choirs and a symphony orchestra will appear in the performance of “The Wall,” the brainchild of Waters, who first recorded the chart-buster with Pink Floyd in 1979. The July 21 performance will benefit the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, an international charity based in the United Kingdom. The show will be set at Potsdamer Platz, on the former no man’s land along the Berlin Wall long known as the “death strip.”