U2 Live at The Berlin Wall

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U2 to play free show to mark fall of Berlin Wall

(AP)

BERLIN — Achtung, baby: U2 will play a free concert in Berlin to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Music network MTV said the Irish rockers will perform in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 5 during the MTV Europe Music Awards

The show will be beamed into the awards ceremony at Berlin's O2 World arena.
U2 manager Paul McGuinness said it would be exciting to be in Berlin, "20 years almost to the day since the wall came down."

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The wall fell Nov. 9, 1989, ending almost 30 years of separation between east and west.

U2's 1991 album "Achtung Baby" was partly inspired by the band's stay in the city.
Tickets for the show are available through the http://www.u2.com and http://www.mtvema.com Web sites from 0800 GMT (4 a.m. EDT) Wednesday.

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UPDATE: This was sent to me from U2.com:

  Dear Chris,

Next week U2 are set to take part in an historic performance at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate - and we wanted to let our U2.com subscribers know first that you can register for tickets for the chance to see them play live.

As a prelude to the Fall of The Wall celebrations in Berlin, the band will be performing in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate next Thursday, November 5, as part of the 16th MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA's).

Tickets will be free of charge and available by registering on U2.com from 0900 (CET) WEDNESDAY MORNING, 28 October 2009.

Click here to read more and register for tickets.

Tickets, which will take the form of a bar-coded e-ticket, will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and will be restricted to a maximum of 2 per applicant. Access to the performance will be strictly via one advance, scanned e-ticket per person. Tickets will not be available on the night.

Sounds like it will be a special night.

See you there.

best wishes,
The U2.Com Team