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Hello and

the BBC World Service I'm Louis Adagnogo and today I'm taking you back to a pop concert in Berlin in

1987 that's been seen as one of the events that led two

years later to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Among those headlining at the concert was former Berlin resident David Bowie.

The life from Reistergers is the right here, David Bowie.

The three-day concert was held to celebrate 750 years of Berlin, playing was some of the

biggest names in pop music, the Urythics, Genesis, as well of course as David Bowie performing beside the Reichstark

building and the 10-foot wall that by then had divided Berlin and Germany

physically and politically between East and West communist and capitalist for more than a quarter

of a century.

Rock and pop music has an incredible power and the concept for Berlin is maybe one of the very outstanding examples for how strong the power of music can be.

We're talking about freedom here, freedom of expression.

Journalist Christoph Lance worked for the only radio station allowed to beam the concert live

across the barbed wire and watch towers of the Berlin Wall into Communist-run East Germany.

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