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Social activist musicians U2 held one of the most insane concert events we have heard of lately.  Basically, we are old enough to remember when there was an East and West Germany.  The pinko commies lived in the east while the freaky freedom loving peeps lived in the west.  It made for some great spy stories, Olympic tension and it fueled such great movies as Anthony Edwards’ “Gotcha.”

Gotcha! with a great 80's reference

The resulting Berlin Wall  that was built to separate the two became an icon for communist oppression and when it fell in 1989 it meant the beginning of freedom in a once rather depressing country.

For the 20th Anniversay of the fall of the wall, a free concert was held headlined by U2 and for some reason, organizers built a wall around the venue.  Yup.  You can’t make that stuff up!

Berlin celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of its notorious wall last night with an emotionally tone-deaf decision to erect another one around a U2 pop concert dedicated to freedom.

True, there were no minefields or watchtowers, but the new temporary wall erected before the performance certainly sent the wrong signals

It was thus a bit of a blow to the zeitgeist when the 2m wall — no more than a metal safety barrier covered with tarpaulin — was run up. Fans of U2 who had once chanted “We are the people” in anti-regime demonstrations, said that they were being treated like second-class citizens.