The Wall Live (2010–2013) Explained

Concert Tour Name:The Wall Live
Artist:Roger Waters
Album:The Wall
Start Date:15 September 2010
End Date:21 September 2013
Number Of Legs:6
Gross:US$ 458.6 million (US$ 834.2 million in 2023 dollars)
Last Tour:The Dark Side of the Moon Live
(2006–08)
This Tour:The Wall Live
(2010–13)
Next Tour:Us + Them Tour
(2017–18)

The Wall Live was a worldwide[1] concert tour by Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd.[2] [3] [4] The tour is the first time the Pink Floyd album The Wall has been performed in its entirety by the band or any of its former members since Waters performed the album live in Berlin 21 July 1990. The first leg of the tour grossed in North America over $89.5 million from 56 concerts. It was the second-highest-grossing concert tour in North America in 2010 and the third-highest-grossing concert tour worldwide as of 2013.[5] In 2013, the tour held the record for being the highest-grossing tour for a solo musician, surpassing the previous record holder, Madonna (the record was later eclipsed by Ed Sheeran).[6] It is currently the 7th highest-grossing tour of all-time.

The tour opened on 15 September 2010 in Toronto, and moved through North America before ending the first leg of the tour in Mexico City, 21 December 2010. The European tour began 21 March 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal, and ended 12 July 2011 in Athens, Greece. In 2012, the tour included Australia, New Zealand, and South America, resuming 27 January in Perth, and ending 1 April 2012 in São Paulo.[7] It was confirmed by Waters during an interview with Jimmy Fallon that he would be returning to North America for yet another leg of The Wall tour, beginning 27 April 2012 in Mexico City and ending 21 July 2012 in Quebec City on the Plains of Abraham, a former battlefield.[8] [9] This last show in Quebec City was the second largest outdoor production of "The Wall" ever – the largest being the Live in Berlin show in 1990.[10] The tour returned to European stadiums again in summer 2013.[11] After the 21 September 2013 Paris show he claimed on stage this to be possibly the last The Wall show, confirming rumours that there will be no further tour dates planned for 2014. Waters, a pacifist, incorporated an increased emphasis on the show's anti-war message, and he requested fans to send him pictures of loved ones who have died as a result of wars.[12]

Snowy White[13] (who was a session and tour musician with Pink Floyd in the 1970s, and was in the tour band for the original 1980–81 tour for The Wall) and Dave Kilminster[14] were the first musicians confirmed to be in Waters's touring band. Kipp Lennon, Mark Lennon and Michael Lennon of the band Venice were confirmed for backing vocal duties,[15] but Michael Lennon withdrew from the band due to rehearsal difficulties. He was replaced by cousin Pat Lennon, also of Venice. On 23 April, the full band line-up was announced on Roger Waters's Facebook page. Following a charity gig Waters performed with his former Pink Floyd bandmates on 10 July 2010,[16] he confirmed that David Gilmour would guest on "Comfortably Numb" at one show during the tour. Gilmour appeared at the 12 May 2011 show at The O2, London playing lead guitar on "Comfortably Numb" and mandolin on "Outside the Wall", on which they were also joined by Nick Mason on tambourine.

On 24 August 2010, The Times Leader newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, reported that Waters and company were in town rehearsing for the tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena. This venue previously hosted pre-tour rehearsals and pre-tour concerts for such performers as Elton John, the Simon & Garfunkel "Old Friends" Reunion Tour in 2003 and AC/DC rehearsals in 2008 before the band's world tour.[17] There were no rehearsals or performances; the crew used the occasion to work out technical details. On 12 September 2010, there was a rehearsal performance at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, for invited guests.[18]

In 2014 Waters directed a documentary about the tour titled . The film incorporated footage from the concerts in Quebec City and Athens. It premiered in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[19]

Tour band

The following musicians have played on the tour:[20]

with:

Concert overview

Pre-show

During the pre-show, in the American part of the tour, a man who appears to be homeless pushes a shopping cart around the aisles around the floor seats. He wears a flannel jacket and a cowboy hat, and makes small talk with the fans as he makes his way around the floor. His cart is full of empty soda cans and rubbish and a sign that reads different sayings that vary from show to show, including, "No thought control" on one side and, "Homeless people need money for booze and hookers" on the other. His cart also contains the original stuffed "Pink" doll from 1979.

The pre-show audio was 20 minutes of several clips from television sitcoms and cartoons like Family Guy as well as comedy routines from George Carlin. After the first leg of the North American tour, the sound collage was dropped and replaced with 20 minutes of music in the following order and has been the same for every show since, "Mother" by John Lennon, "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan, "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke, "Imagine" by John Lennon, "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, and "People Get Ready" by The Impressions.

The show

During the homeless man's tour through the crowd, the pre-show music stops and the sounds of channel surfing can be heard. When the homeless man reaches the stage, the climax of the movie Spartacus is played. A spotlight shines on him and his cart as the sounds of the slaves each claiming to be Spartacus are heard. After which, the man throws "Pink" onto the stage.

For the European shows and all shows thereafter, the homeless man was replaced with two "soldiers", bearing the crossed hammer uniform, who bring the "Pink" puppet onto the stage and hold him throughout the Spartacus clip, before dumping him on the ground and marching off the stage.

As he does this, the audio transitions to a trumpet (later revealed to be Roger Waters) playing the melody of "Outside the Wall".[2] The trumpet playing continues unaccompanied for about a minute, until the band (unseen) unexpectedly bursts into action with "In the Flesh?". Fireworks explode across the stage during the opening chords and stage hands with 'marching hammers' arm bands and flags rise up above the band on lifts. Around mid-song, Waters emerges from the back of the stage, dressed in black. During the climax of the song, a scaled down Stuka Dive Bomber, suspended by a guide wire, flies into the wall and explodes. During "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" there is a giant inflated puppet schoolmaster, an icon from the original show. Local school children are brought out onto the stage to lip-sync and dance. From the Berlin 16 June show onwards, Waters sings an acoustic reprise of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" with lyrics referring to the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes before finally greeting the audience and telling them about the filming of the original Wall Tour shows. He then sings "Mother" to a video of him playing the song from the original 1980 tour. He refers to the video as "miserable little Roger." A giant mother blow-up designed on the look of the animated version is featured as well. The song has more of a political message than before, the words "Big Brother Is Watching You" are written on the wall, with the "Br" crossed off and replaced with an "M". After the line "Mother, should I trust the government?" the words "No fucking way" are projected on the wall, as well as a local translation in non-English speaking countries.

The initial projections shown during "Goodbye Blue Sky" caused some controversy. During the song, aeroplanes are shown dropping bombs shaped like Latin crosses, hammer and sickles, dollar signs, star and crescents, Stars of David, the Shell logo, and the Mercedes-Benz logo, with the addition of the McDonald's logo in later shows. The plane dropping dollar signs appeared directly after the plane dropping the Star of David. Although Waters said in Rolling Stone that there was no relevance to the order of the bombs, he changed the order after Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, complained.[21] Waters stated, "Contrary to Mr Foxman's assertion, there are no hidden meanings in the order or juxtaposition of these symbols."[22] These visuals were changed at Waters' request for all future shows, to avoid any sensitive juxtapositions of the symbols used in the video. At the first show of the tour, while these symbols dropped from the plane they also dropped from the ceiling of the Air Canada Centre in little cut-out shapes of confetti. During the song "Don't Leave Me Now" the production features a giant wife puppet similar in design and execution as the Schoolmaster. During the first half on the show, the wall is slowly built up brick by brick and as with the eighties tour, an instrumental called "The Last Few Bricks" that doesn't appear on the original album is played to give the stage hands extra time to build the wall. At the end of "Goodbye Cruel World", the last brick is put in place and the wall is completed across the stage. An intermission follows with photos and short bios of people lost in conflicts are projected on the wall.

The second act begins with "Hey You" and is played with minimal visuals on the wall. The band performs, now hidden from the audience's view, from behind the wall. For the acoustic guitar solo piece "Is There Anybody Out There?" a brick is removed so that guitarists Dave Kilminster and G.E. Smith are visible. As "Nobody Home" begins, a section folds out of the wall revealing a small mock hotel room complete with a television, chair, lamp and unmade bed. Waters, in character as "Pink", sings the song while seated on a comfy chair that is on a platform extending from the wall. During "Vera" images of Vera Lynn are displayed on the wall, along with videos of young children being reunited with their veteran fathers. "Bring the Boys Back Home" features Dwight D. Eisenhower's American Society of Newspaper Editors speech. During "Comfortably Numb", Robbie Wyckoff and Dave Kilminster stand on top of the wall as David Gilmour did in the original tour – a performance reprised by Gilmour himself during a one-off appearance at the London O2 show on 12 May 2011. At the end of the song, the projection of the wall explodes and cinematic pillars rise.

The band plays "The Show Must Go On" dressed in black fascist attire complete with the Marching Hammers armbands.[2] Waters' trademarked inflatable pig is released, untethered, during "In the Flesh", and guided by remote control, floats around the venue.[2] Spotlights shine on the audience as Waters interrogates them, pointing out the "riff raff" in the room. Waters is projected onto the wall with a machine gun shooting the audience. During "Run Like Hell", images are displayed on the wall parodying the iPod lowercase "i" fad. Pictures of pigs are shown next to the words "iLead", dogs next to "iProtect", sheep next to "iFollow" (pigs, dogs, and sheep indicating their roles on the Pink Floyd album Animals), George W. Bush and other leaders next to "iBelieve", Hitler next to "iPaint", children next to "iLearn", and gravestones next to "iPay" among others. In all of the pictures, the subjects are wearing iPods. After this montage, the leaked footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike is played, displaying captions of the American pilots speaking and pointing out Reuters employees Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, whose cameras were mistaken for weapons; after the attack, a banner is projected onto the wall: "Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, We Will Remember You." A burst of gunfire sends it to the ground.

"Waiting for the Worms" features more of Gerald Scarfe's original animation from the film adaptation and tour, except that the infamous sequence of marching hammers has now been replaced with a new computer-generated, cel-shaded version. "Stop" abruptly blacks out the entire wall, with a lone spotlight shining upon the Pink doll from the beginning of the program, which is sitting atop the wall; it is then thrown off its high perch to the ground.

Gerald Scarfe's animated sequence is displayed during "The Trial". As the song reaches its steady climax and with the crowd shouting "Tear down the Wall", the wall crumbles violently from the top down amid smoke while a flurry of red paper confetti (in the shape of the bomb symbols from earlier in the show) drops onto the audience. The band emerges from behind the rubble and plays "Outside the Wall" with a variety of acoustic instruments. (At certain shows on the Australian leg, the band plays a complete acoustic version of "Waltzing Matilda" immediately after "Outside the Wall" as a rare encore. Similarly, at the shows in Mexico, the band performed "Las Mañanitas" to the tune of "Another Brick in the Wall") Waters introduces the band to the crowd, they bow and then exit the stage.

Critical reception

Kevin Coffey of the Omaha World-Herald wrote:

Roger Waters and a cast of supporting musicians ... perform[ed] from start to finish one of the most commercially successful, beloved and ambitious art-rock albums in history ... as the show begins, the famous and enormous white wall is erected on stage, brick by brick, until it obscures the band and becomes a screen upon which a dazzling array of videos and visuals are projected. Technically, this was a nearly flawless show. The sound was clean and true. The original album and tour was about isolation. This time around, it was more anti-war, anti-capitalism and anti-poverty than about any kind of psychological issue. In addition to wild and slightly creepy animations from Gerald Scarfe, projections on the wall and video screens showed images of poverty, soldiers and others who died in conflicts as well as video of planes bombing areas with crosses, dollar signs, Shell Oil logos and others.[23]

J.C. Maçek III of PopMatters wrote:

As an immersive concert experience, however, The Wall is an entirely different beast. Its harsh, theatrical nature pulls the audience deep into its storyline and its visuals create the illusion of actually being inside a dynamic, frightening and engrossing movie. Yes, The Wall live is every bit as cinematic as its actual cinema-released counterpart film Pink Floyd – The Wall and will remain a milestone in Pink Floyd and Roger Waters history. The Wall Live has truly been more than a concert tour, but an anti-war, pro-music, theatrical, cinematic, brilliant, inspiring truly immersive, multi-media experience that complements the history of The Wall and, perhaps, brings it one step farther in its story.[2]

Steve Pick of Stltoday.com said:

"Roger Waters did not put on just an ordinary concert Friday night at the Scottrade Center — he created a huge, technologically complex and metaphorically dense theatrical spectacle."[24]

Timothy Fin of the Kansas City Star has this to say about the show:

" ... Waters accordingly turned the performance into a[n] epic, gaudy and extravagant piece of theatre – an onslaught of sights, sounds and socio-political themes. Some of it was poignant, some of it was bombastic, some of it was viscerally thrilling, like a great rock show ought to be. But all of it was entertaining."[25]

Kevin Stevens of The Setonian stated:

A hail of firework explosions, hundreds of large rectangular bricks, crashing planes, enormous puppets, 3D effects. Surely, this is not your average concert. Roger Waters' tour of his seminal album, "The Wall", lavishes in this Broadway-esque pomp, but never compromises its music for theatrics. This is a rock concert, one that succeeds in transforming Pink Floyd's brilliant 1979 opus into a compelling aesthetic and auditory experience.[26]

A.D. Amorosi of the Philadelphia City Paper wrote:

"If epic paranoia over monster themes such as megalomania, mother fixation, loneliness, television, the warring industrial complex and the uselessness of fans and celebrity, accompanied by the sounds of unsettling bombast, is what you seek as entertainment, there's a bridge I can sell you. Or rather, a wall — The Wall, Roger Waters’ semi-autobiographical 1979 magnum opus ...[27]

According to Matt DeMarco of The Hofstra Chronicle online:

Pyrotechnics were used throughout the show, as were massive marionette puppets, representative of several of the opera's supporting characters. The technological aspect of this show was astounding. Musically, the show was just as phenomenal. Waters brought an impressive touring band with him, including lead guitarist Dave Kilminster, who was just spectacular. The solo he delivered during "Comfortably Numb" was absolutely mind-blowing. Waters, himself, proved that rock ‘n roll has no age limit. At 67 years old, the rock icon played a flawless show, hitting notes that he was hitting 30 years ago. His energy was visibly present; he was truly excited to be performing this album for a live crowd again.[28]

Set list

The Wall album is played in its entirety and two songs not in the original release are included—"What Shall We Do Now?" and "The Last Few Bricks"[29] —both of which were also played at every concert during The Wall Tour in 1980–1981, and documented on the album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81, released in 2000. "One of My Turns", "Don't Leave Me Now" and "Run Like Hell" are all transposed one key down to accommodate Waters' vocal range.

A change was made in the setlist from the Berlin 16 June 2011 show onwards, when Waters added an acoustic coda to "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" with brand new lyrics referring to the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. On later legs of the tour, the official tour program would list this as a separate song called "The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes". This is the first time ever a new song has been added to The Wall—all previous additions to the setlist of the original album either restored unused material (in The Wall film) or added existing songs from Waters' work (in The Wall – Live in Berlin).

Set one

  1. "In the Flesh?"
  2. "The Thin Ice"
  3. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)"
  4. "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"
  5. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
  6. "The Ballad of Jean Charles de Menezes" (June 2011 onwards)
  7. "Mother"
  8. "Goodbye Blue Sky"
  9. "Empty Spaces"
  10. "What Shall We Do Now?"
  11. "Young Lust"
  12. "One of My Turns"
  13. "Don't Leave Me Now"
  14. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)"
  15. "The Last Few Bricks"
  16. "Goodbye Cruel World"

Set two

  1. "Hey You"
  2. "Is There Anybody Out There?"
  3. "Nobody Home"
  4. "Vera"
  5. "Bring the Boys Back Home"
  6. "Comfortably Numb"
  7. "The Show Must Go On"
  8. "In the Flesh"
  9. "Run Like Hell"
  10. "Waiting for the Worms"
  11. "Stop"
  12. "The Trial"
  13. "Outside the Wall"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
North America (first leg)
15 September 2010TorontoCanadaAir Canada Centre40,922 / 40,922$5,623,300
16 September 2010
18 September 2010
20 September 2010ChicagoUnited StatesUnited Center45,653 / 47,487$5,400,900
21 September 2010
23 September 2010
24 September 2010
26 September 2010PittsburghConsol Energy Center12,561 / 12,561$1,316,224
28 September 2010ClevelandQuicken Loans Arena12,369 / 13,320$1,229,950
30 September 2010BostonTD Garden34,120 / 34,626 $3,836,070
1 October 2010
3 October 2010
5 October 2010New York CityMadison Square Garden36,704 / 36,704$5,449,885
6 October 2010
8 October 2010BuffaloFirst Niagara Center13,718 / 13,718$1,493,334
10 October 2010Washington, D.C.Verizon Center12,865 / 12,865$2,017,970
12 October 2010UniondaleNassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum21,147 / 21,147$2,365,175
13 October 2010
15 October 2010HartfordXL Center11,647 / 11,647$1,534,942
17 October 2010OttawaCanadaScotiabank Place12,699 / 12,699$1,346,000
19 October 2010MontrealBell Centre27,210 / 27,210$3,482,540
20 October 2010
22 October 2010ColumbusUnited StatesValue City Arena12,010 / 12,010 $1,325,804
24 October 2010Auburn HillsThe Palace of Auburn Hills13,481 / 13,481$1,536,384
26 October 2010OmahaQwest Center Omaha9,471 / 9,897 $898,513
27 October 2010Saint PaulXcel Energy Center14,130 / 14,130$1,704,884
29 October 2010St. LouisScottrade Center12,574 / 12,574$1,341,058
30 October 2010Kansas CitySprint Center11,458 / 11,458$1,253,051
3 November 2010East RutherfordIzod Center25,690 / 25,690$3,385,970
4 November 2010
6 November 2010New York CityMadison Square Garden12,498 / 12,498$1,902,115
8 November 2010PhiladelphiaWells Fargo Center39,280 / 39,280$5,474,340
9 November 2010
11 November 2010
13 November 2010SunriseBankAtlantic Center24,939 / 24,939$2,956,233
14 November 2010
16 November 2010TampaSt. Pete Times Forum14,630 / 15,650$1,784,297
18 November 2010AtlantaPhilips Arena12,665 / 12,665 $1,772,797
20 November 2010HoustonToyota Center11,443 / 11,443$1,541,128
21 November 2010DallasAmerican Airlines Center12,804 / 12,804$1,673,754
23 November 2010DenverPepsi Center11,801 / 11,801$1,491,145
26 November 2010ParadiseMGM Grand Garden Arena12,661 / 12,661$1,992,350
27 November 2010PhoenixUS Airways Center12,234 / 12,234$1,428,183
29 November 2010Los AngelesStaples Center36,621 / 36,621$5,408,750
30 November 2010
3 December 2010OaklandOracle Arena12,579 / 12,579$1,536,895
5 December 2010Los AngelesStaples Center
7 December 2010San JoseHP Pavilion at San Jose23,209 / 23,209$3,106,707
8 December 2010
10 December 2010VancouverCanadaRogers Arena13,159 / 13,159$1,940,070
11 December 2010TacomaUnited StatesTacoma Dome19,785 / 19,785$2,194,338
13 December 2010AnaheimHonda Center23,854 / 23,854$3,321,700
14 December 2010
18 December 2010Mexico CityMexicoPalacio de los Deportes42,864 / 42,864$4,788,270
19 December 2010
21 December 2010
Europe (first leg)
21 March 2011LisbonPortugalPavilhão Atlântico31,170 / 31,170$2,593,376
22 March 2011
25 March 2011MadridSpainPalacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid29,338 / 29,338 $2,135,012
26 March 2011
29 March 2011BarcelonaPalau Sant Jordi28,738 / 28,738$2,079,519
30 March 2011
1 April 2011MilanItalyMediolanum Forum38,513 / 38,513$3,888,218
2 April 2011
4 April 2011
5 April 2011
8 April 2011ArnhemNetherlandsGelreDome88,693 / 88,693 $8,632,039
9 April 2011
11 April 2011
13 April 2011ZagrebCroatiaArena Zagreb17,004 / 17,004$1,122,965
15 April 2011PragueCzech RepublicO2 Arena29,095 / 29,095$3,495,960
16 April 2011
18 April 2011ŁódźPolandAtlas Arena26,231 / 26,231$2,248,310
19 April 2011
23 April 2011MoscowRussiaSK Olimpiyskiy21,894 / 21,894$1,904,778
25 April 2011Saint PetersburgSKK Peterburgskiy15,998 / 15,998 $1,542,045
27 April 2011HelsinkiFinlandHartwall Areena20,583 / 20,583$2,291,537
28 April 2011
30 April 2011BærumNorwayTelenor Arena36,034 / 36,034$5,597,370
1 May 2011
4 May 2011StockholmSwedenEricsson Globe23,212 / 23,212$3,127,365
5 May 2011
7 May 2011CopenhagenDenmarkParken Stadion46,825 / 46,825$5,151,114
11 May 2011LondonEnglandThe O2 Arena89,182 / 90,006$10,232,800
12 May 2011
14 May 2011
15 May 2011
17 May 2011
18 May 2011
20 May 2011ManchesterManchester Evening News Arena36,817 / 37,050$4,428,190
21 May 2011
23 May 2011DublinIrelandThe O224,540 / 24,540$2,370,038
24 May 2011
27 May 2011AntwerpBelgiumSportpaleis24,977 / 24,977$2,703,230
28 May 2011
30 May 2011ParisFrancePalais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy56,764 / 56,764$6,015,980
31 May 2011
3 June 2011MannheimGermanySAP Arena16,444 / 16,444$2,226,201
4 June 2011
6 June 2011ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion39,811 / 39,811$9,633,656
7 June 2011
10 June 2011HamburgGermanyO2 World Hamburg19,839 / 19,839$2,605,683
11 June 2011
13 June 2011HerningDenmarkJyske Bank Boxen13,564 / 13,564$1,595,402
15 June 2011BerlinGermanyO2 World Berlin21,961 / 21,961$2,734,176
16 June 2011
18 June 2011DüsseldorfEsprit Arena35,000 / 35,000$3,784,690
20 June 2011MunichOlympiahalle9,888 / 9,888$1,343,821
22 June 2011BudapestHungaryPapp László Budapest Sportaréna13,445 / 13,445$1,333,913
24 June 2011ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadionrowspan="2"
25 June 2011
27 June 2011BirminghamEnglandNational Indoor Arena9,326 / 9,326$1,142,757
28 June 2011ManchesterManchester Evening News Arena
30 June 2011ParisFrancePalais Omnisports de Paris-Bercyrowspan="2"
1 July 2011
3 July 2011MilanItalyMediolanum Forum21,005 / 21,005$1,335,100
4 July 2011
8 July 2011AthensGreeceOAKA Olympiakó Kleistó Gymnastírio35,005 / 35,005$2,559,048
9 July 2011
12 July 2011
Oceania
27 January 2012PerthAustraliaBurswood Dome19,523 / 19,523 $3,637,000
28 January 2012
1 February 2012BrisbaneBrisbane Entertainment Centre25,359 / 25,359$4,268,040
2 February 2012
4 February 2012
7 February 2012MelbourneRod Laver Arena38,586 / 38,586 $6,900,750
8 February 2012
10 February 2012
11 February 2012
14 February 2012SydneyAllphones Arena22,994 / 22,994 $4,314,050
15 February 2012
18 February 2012AucklandNew ZealandVector Arena39,096 / 39,096$6,149,610
20 February 2012
22 February 2012
23 February 2012
South America
2 March 2012SantiagoChileEstadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos93,926 / 94,875$9,297,778
3 March 2012
7 March 2012Buenos AiresArgentinaEstadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti430,678 / 444,906$37,970,877
9 March 2012
10 March 2012
12 March 2012
14 March 2012
15 March 2012
17 March 2012
18 March 2012
20 March 2012
25 March 2012Porto AlegreBrazilEstádio Beira-Rio42,436 / 46,671 $5,950,540
29 March 2012Rio de JaneiroEstádio Olímpico João Havelange43,046 / 53,219$4,839,180
1 April 2012São PauloEstádio do Morumbi99,869 / 107,621$12,512,600
3 April 2012
North America (second leg)
27 April 2012Mexico CityMexicoForo Sol82,811 / 82,811$7,596,861
28 April 2012
1 May 2012HoustonUnited StatesToyota Center11,264 / 11,264$1,365,855
3 May 2012AustinFrank Erwin Center10,230 / 10,230$1,188,971
5 May 2012TulsaBOK Center10,651 / 10,651$1,198,062
7 May 2012DenverPepsi Center11,800 / 11,800$1,443,249
11 May 2012San FranciscoAT&T Park33,193 / 33,193$4,151,511
13 May 2012San DiegoValley View Casino Center10,219 / 10,219$1,323,031
15 May 2012PhoenixUS Airways Center11,585 / 11,585$1,255,271
19 May 2012Los AngelesLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum45,751 / 45,751$3,544,731
22 May 2012PortlandRose Garden12,275 / 12,275$1,316,751
24 May 2012SeattleKeyArena12,006 / 12,006 $1,481,010
26 May 2012VancouverCanadaBC Place36,013 / 36,013 $3,820,182
28 May 2012EdmontonRexall Place24,419 / 24,419$3,085,732
29 May 2012
31 May 2012WinnipegMTS Centre20,754 / 20,754$2,384,855
1 June 2012
3 June 2012Saint PaulUnited StatesXcel Energy Center12,889 / 12,889$1,420,771
5 June 2012DetroitJoe Louis Arena11,406 / 11,406 $1,222,904
6 June 2012Grand RapidsVan Andel Arena9,388 / 9,388$1,042,274
8 June 2012ChicagoWrigley Field36,881 / 36,881$4,388,860
10 June 2012LouisvilleKFC Yum! Center12,547 / 14,666$1,295,669
11 June 2012IndianapolisBankers Life Fieldhouse11,248 / 11,248$1,288,131
13 June 2012AtlantaPhilips Arena10,707 / 10,707$1,256,465
15 June 2012SunriseBankAtlantic Center12,299 / 12,299$1,522,098
16 June 2012OrlandoAmway Center11,878 / 11,878$1,383,781
19 June 2012NashvilleBridgestone Arena12,748 / 12,748$1,356,251
21 June 2012BuffaloFirst Niagara Center12,996 / 12,996 $1,327,184
23 June 2012TorontoCanadaRogers Centre40,328 / 40,328$3,876,736
25 June 2012OttawaScotiabank Place11,604 / 11,604$1,239,283
26 June 2012MontrealBell Centre14,305 / 14,305$1,740,898
28 June 2012AlbanyUnited StatesTimes Union Center10,963 / 10,963 $1,155,427
29 June 2012HartfordXL Center11,225 / 11,225$1,421,495
1 July 2012BostonFenway Park27,847 / 27,847 $3,620,675
3 July 2012PittsburghConsol Energy Center12,488 / 12,488$1,269,078
6 July 2012New York CityYankee Stadium62,188 / 62,188$7,375,030
7 July 2012
9 July 2012RaleighPNC Arena11,913 / 11,913$1,259,326
10 July 2012CharlotteTime Warner Cable Arena12,540 / 12,540$1,256,734
12 July 2012Washington, D.C.Verizon Center12,901 / 12,901 $1,683,729
14 July 2012PhiladelphiaCitizens Bank Park36,773 / 36,773$4,270,942
21 July 2012[30] Quebec CityCanadaPlains of Abraham71,021 / 75,000$7,391,936
Europe (second leg)
18 July 2013ArnhemNetherlandsGelreDome6,343 / 10,000$610,369
20 July 2013WerchterBelgiumFestival Site35,881 / 40,000$3,344,159
23 July 2013SplitCroatiaStadion Poljud19,338 / 25,000$770,476
26 July 2013PaduaItalyStadio Euganeo41,358 / 42,000$3,624,011
28 July 2013RomeStadio Olimpico50,848 / 52,000$4,257,575
31 July 2013[31] AthensGreeceOlympic Stadium25,807 / 77,000$1,453,804
4 August 2013IstanbulTurkeyİTÜ Stadyumu25,438 / 30,000$2,767,959
7 August 2013PragueCzech RepublicO2 Arena13,621 / 14,200$1,666,798
9 August 2013FrankfurtGermanyCommerzbank-Arena26,422 / 29,000$3,292,846
11 August 2013CopenhagenDenmarkParken Stadion35,575 / 40,200$4,057,727
14 August 2013BærumNorwayTelenor Arena33,324 / 35,000 $4,630,713
15 August 2013
17 August 2013GothenburgSwedenUllevi Stadion30,766 / 35,000$3,177,530
20 August 2013WarsawPolandStadion Narodowy im. Kazimierza Górskiego32,549 / 36,331$3,008,068
23 August 2013ViennaAustriaErnst-Happel-Stadion36,385 / 40,000 $4,409,931
25 August 2013BudapestHungaryPuskás Ferenc Stadion18,720 / 30,000$1,137,675
28 August 2013BucharestRomaniaPiaţa Constituţiei44,813 / 44,850$3,216,105
30 August 2013SofiaBulgariaVassil Levski National Stadium31,371 / 35,000 $2,053,674
1 September 2013BelgradeSerbiaKombank Arena12,400 / 14,000$669,712
4 September 2013BerlinGermanyOlympiastadion Berlin29,857 / 40,000$3,299,137
6 September 2013DüsseldorfEsprit Arena33,727 / 35,000$3,823,373
8 September 2013AmsterdamNetherlandsAmsterdam ArenA47,414 / 47,500$4,257,133
11 September 2013ZurichSwitzerlandLetzigrund37,367 / 40,000$4,974,579
14 September 2013LondonEnglandWembley Stadium57,803 / 58,000 $6,385,728
16 September 2013ManchesterManchester Arena9,667 / 12,000 $1,119,528
18 September 2013DublinIrelandAviva Stadium24,210 / 30,000 $2,443,706
21 September 2013Paris (Saint-Denis)FranceStade de France69,119 / 70,000$6,853,334
TOTAL 4,129,863 / 4,268,028 (97%)$458,673,798

See also

Notes and References

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  5. Web site: Bon Jovi, AC/DC, U2 Top World Tours of 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110101002722/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1655032/20101229/bon_jovi.jhtml. dead. 1 January 2011. Vena. Jocelyn . MTV. 29 December 2010. 4 January 2011.
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  8. Web site: Roger Waters Performs with Foo Fighters, Announces More U.S. Dates for The Wall Tour . Barrett . John . paste.com . 28 September 2011 . 4 October 2011.
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  13. Web site: Latest news from Snowy White ... . Snowy White. 7 November 2010.
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  21. Web site: ADL Says Bomb Imagery in Roger Waters' "The Wall" Tour Calls Up Anti-Semitic Stereotypes . ADL . 27 September 2010 . 7 November 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101106050432/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/5856_13.htm . 6 November 2010 . dead .
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  23. Web site: Waters does well with 'The Wall' . Coffey . Kevin . 27 October 2010 . 7 November 2010 . dead . https://archive.today/20120906221047/http://www.omaha.com/article/20101027/ENTERTAINMENT04/710279947 . 6 September 2012 . dmy-all .
  24. Web site: Roger Waters in a visually stunning concert at Scottrade . Pick. Steve. stltoday.com. 31 October 2010. 7 November 2010.
  25. News: Roger Waters show is sensory overload – in a good way . The Kansas City Star . Fin . Timothy . 31 October 2010 . 7 November 2010.
  26. Web site: Powerful performance of "The Wall". Stevens. Kevin. The Setonian. 8 November 2010. 8 November 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101114015030/http://www.thesetonian.com/pirate-life/powerful-performance-of-the-wall-1.1751428. 14 November 2010. dmy-all.
  27. News: ICE CUBE: Roger Waters' The Wall @ Wells Fargo Center, 11/8. Amorosi. A.D.. Philadelphia City Paper. 9 November 2010. 11 November 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101112014010/http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/2010/11/09/ice-cube-water-on-the-wall/. 12 November 2010. dmy-all.
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  30. Footage from concert used in filming Roger Waters The Wall
  31. Footage from concert used in filming Roger Waters The Wall