Berlin Wall still worth a party 20 years after its fallNov 05, 2009 COLOGNE, Germany -- In celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, Germany will party like it's 1989. Irish rock band U2 popped the champagne early with a free live concert Thursday in front of Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin landmark that, two decades ago, butted against the squat concrete barrier that split East and West. In an ironic, somewhat sad twist, concert organizers threw up their own wall around the concert: a fence with plastic sheeting...More |
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