LET YOUR BALALAIKA SING WHAT MY GUITAR WANTS TO SAY: We weren't really sure how to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall yesterday -- important, obviously, and with obvious popular cultural ramifications not limited to the increasing popularity of the rock band Scorpions and the demise of "East German swimmer" jokes. Like Tiananmen Square earlier that year, we knew we were watching history happen in front of us on live television ... only, this time, history kept moving forward, and nothing says new-found freedom like David Hasselhoff singing atop the Wall in an illuminated leather jacket.
added: Peter Jennings, live from Berlin, 11/10/89.
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