U2 and Jay-Z teamed up to perform together at the 2009 European MTV Awards at the Brandenburg Gate to mark the 20 year anniversary since the fall of The Berlin Wall. Apparently fans who did not have tickets had their view restricted by MTV concert organizers with their own wall. Berlin’s city ...

Bono of U2 performs during a concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate the on November 5, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. U2 performed a free concert in collaboration with MTV Europe to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. a2a_linkname="HipCelebrity";a2a_linkurl="

U2 and Jay-Z have played a show at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin this evening (November 5). Taking to the stage on the eastern side of the old divide, the band played a short set to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the flashpoint that kick-started Germany's reunification. Kicking off with 'One', Bono ...

When the news came on tonight, I watched the dominoes tumble before the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, listened to the speeches and wondered about a city once divided by a concrete and barbed wire wall. So many died trying to scale it or fly over it and now all you have to do is walk by and nobody cares. I remember ...

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  World leaders — minus Barack Hussein Obama — gathered in Berlin today, two decades after the fall of the wall, to celebrate and reflect on the event. Many will remember that we once had a president who didn’t travel the world apologizing for America, but reveled in its greatness and referred to it as “the shining city upon a hill,” whose beacon light guides freedom- ...