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Peter Gabriel sings "Heroes" at Berlin Wall ceremony

2014-11-09 3 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION).<br/> <br />STORY: Peter Gabriel sings David Bowie's "Heroes" at the ceremony in Berlin marking the 25th anniversary of the wall coming down.<br/> <br />"Heroes," which is something of a Wall anthem -- was recorded by David Bowie in a studio near the barrier in then-West Berlin.<br/> <br />The Berlin Wall appears in the lyrics of the single "Heroes" which was recorded near the Gropius Bau at the studio known then as "Hansa Studio by the Wall" - it was so close that East German sentries could see right into the windows from their watchtower.<br/> <br />In the song, about two lovers, Bowie sings: "I can remember/Standing, by the wall/And the guns shot above our heads/And we kissed, as though nothing could fall".

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