The show had a sell-out crowd of over 350,000 people. Right before the performance started the gates were opened which enabled at least another 100,000 people to watch, this broke records for a paid-entry concert.

The concert was staged on vacant terrain between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, a location that was part of the former “no man’s land” of the Berlin Wall. The production was designed by Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park.

The stage design featured a 550-foot-long (170 m) and 82-foot-high (25 m) wall. Most of the wall was built before the show and the rest was built progressively through the first part of the show. The wall was then knocked down at the end of the show.

Guest artists included Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of The Band, The Hooters, Van Morrison, Sinéad O’Connor, Cyndi Lauper, Marianne Faithfull, Scorpions, Joni Mitchell, Paul Carrack, Thomas Dolby and Bryan Adams, along with actors Albert Finney, Jerry Hall, Tim Curry and Ute Lemper. Leonard Cheshire opened the concert by blowing a World War II whistle.

The combined visual effects of the constantly moving cranes and other mechanics, musical theatrics, performers, musicians, orchestra, choir, graphic projections, animation’s, lighting effects, lasers, pyrotechnics, moving stages and lifts, military vehicles and marching soldiers, the ever growing brick wall stage and props, coupled with the deeply moving music and storyline, became a multimedia extravaganza unparalleled in any stage show in history.

Concert lighting was by Abbey Rosen-Holmes and Event lighting by Durham Marenghi