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Article: BERLIN WALL FALLS AGAIN AT CONCERT.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 22, 1990
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Byline: Mark Fritz Associated Press
About 200,000 rock music fans cheered as a mock Berlin Wall came tumbling down midnight Saturday at a benefit concert where the real divider once stood.
Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O'Connor, Joni Mitchell and other stars performed songs from Pink Floyd's 1979 rock epic "The Wall" on a stage flanked by the massive plastic-foam wall meant to mimic the dismantled Berlin Wall.
Organizers sold 180,000 tickets but finally ordered the removal of security fences to accommodate a huge crush of people. They streamed onto the strip of land where trespassers during Communist rule would have been shot instead of serenaded.
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