Pink Floyd - Piazza San Marco
Venice, Italy
July 15, 1989
Soundboard/Liberated Bootleg @flac
Pink Floyd 1989:
David Gilmour - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Richard Wright - Keyboards, Harmonies & Backing Vocals
Nick Mason - Drums & Percussion
Touring Band Members:
Jon Carin – Keyboards, Sound Effects, Vocals, Additional Percussion
Scott Page – Saxophones, Oboe, Additional Guitars
Guy Pratt – Bass Guitar, Vocals
Tim Renwick – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Gary Wallis – Percussion, Additional Keyboards
Rachel Fury – Backing Vocals
Durga Mcbroom – Backing Vocals
Lorelei Mcbroom – Backing Vocals
Pink Floyd live at Piazza San Marco on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy on 7/15/1989. This event was dubbed "A Concert for Europe", and was broadcast on RAI FM and TV in Italy and other European countries. This recording is from a German FM radio rebroadcast of this concert, with the intro and fireworks at the end added from the Italian TV broadcast.
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This free and historic concert, which took place during Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, was staged on a floating barge on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, during the traditional Festa del Redentore.
After the concerts at Arena of Verona, Monza, Livorno, and Cava de' Tirreni in May 1989, the Venetian producer Francesco 'Fran' Tomasi proposed that Pink Floyd close their tour in Italy with a free concert in his city on the night of 15 July 1989, during the traditional Festa del Redentore.
Initially it was planned to set up the stage, twenty-four metres high, on the extreme tip of the island of Giudecca, but due to space availability issue it was decided to use some large rafts moored in the middle of San Marco basin, in front of the Doge's Palace.
Counted among the most extraordinary and controversial rock concerts ever held in Italy, it took place on 15 July 1989 on the traditional Redeemer Festival (Festa del Redentore) in the presence of some 200,000 spectators positioned on the banks and boats of the St. Mark's basin. It was broadcast by RAI worldwide with an audience of about 100 million viewers.
The cost of the event was financed with one billion Italian lire by RAI, who broadcast the concert worldwide and simultaneously in the two Germanies; the rest of the expenses (several hundred millions lire) were covered by Pink Floyd themselves. It is estimated that worldwide, the concert was watched by 100 million spectators, 27 million of them in the United States (where the event was broadcast on cable for the price of ten dollars). In Italy, the concert was seen by over 3.5 million viewers, with an audience share of 30%. ~Wiki
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