Rod Stewart, who was to sing " Young Lust", and Joe Cocker were confirmed but, when the planned concert date was put back, both were unavailable. Waters tried to get guests like Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen and Eric Clapton but they were either unavailable or turned it down. The wall was then knocked down at the end of the show. Most of the wall was built before the show and the rest was built progressively through the first part of the show. The stage design featured a 550-foot-long (170 m) and 82-foot-high (25 m) wall.
The production was designed by Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park. A few years later, the charity was wound up, and the audio and video sales rights from the concert performance returned to Waters. However, audio and video sales came in significantly under projections, and the trading arm of the charity (Operation Dinghy) incurred heavy losses. While he subsequently earned the money back from the sale of the CD and video releases of the album, the original plan was to donate all profits past his initial investment to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a UK charity founded by Leonard Cheshire. The event was produced and cast by British impresario and producer Tony Hollingsworth. And I was very impressed, and said I would do what I could, although I thought it was very unlikely that it would come off… Then, in November, when the wall started coming down, we started negotiating." And, as it's partially an attack on the inherently greedy nature of stadium rock shows, it would be wrong to do it in stadiums… I said, 'Well, I might do it outdoors if they ever take the wall down in Berlin.'… The Memorial Fund was in a council meeting, and felt they needed some kind of an event to focus attention on it… So I agreed to have a meeting with Leonard Cheshire. "He said, 'Would you ever perform The Wall again on stage?' And I said, 'No'… Indoors, it made no sense financially it's too expensive. "I did an interview a couple of years ago for a guy called Redbeard…" Waters recalled. 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 concert at a strip of land between the Brandenburg Gate and Leipziger Platz.
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