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===Music=== Music related to the Berlin Wall includes: *''[[Stationary Traveller]]'' (1984), a concept album by [[Camel (band)|Camel]] that takes the theme of families and friends split up by the building of the Berlin Wall. *"[[West of the Wall]]", a 1962 top 40 hit by [[Toni Fisher]], which tells the tale of two lovers separated by the newly built Berlin Wall. *"[[Holidays in the Sun (song)|Holidays in the Sun]]", a song by the English [[punk rock]] band [[Sex Pistols]] which prominently mentions the Wall, specifically singer [[Johnny Rotten]]'s fantasy of digging a tunnel under it. *[[David Bowie]]'s "[["Heroes" (David Bowie song)|{{-'}}Heroes{{'-}}]]" (1977), inspired by the image of a couple kissing at the Berlin Wall (in reality, the couple was his producer [[Tony Visconti]] and backup singer [[Antonia Maaß]]). The song (which, along with the [["Heroes" (David Bowie album)|album of the same name]], was recorded in Berlin), makes lyrical references to the kissing couple, and to the "Wall of Shame" ("the shame was on the other side"). Upon Bowie's death, the [[Federal Foreign Office]] paid homage to Bowie on Twitter:<ref>{{cite news |title=David Bowie death triggers tributes from Iggy Pop, Madonna—even the Vatican and the German government |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/death-of-david-bowie-sparks-howls-of-anguish-across-social-media-2016-01-11 |last=Kollmeyer |first=Barbara |date=11 January 2016 |work=[[MarketWatch]] |access-date=23 January 2016 |archive-date=19 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019113815/http://www.marketwatch.com/story/death-of-david-bowie-sparks-howls-of-anguish-across-social-media-2016-01-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>see also [[#David Bowie, 1987|above]] *"{{Interlanguage link|Over de muur|nl}}" (1984), a song by the Dutch pop band {{Interlanguage link|Klein Orkest|nl}}, about the differences between East and West Berlin during the period of the Berlin Wall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sweetslyrics.com/bio-Klein%20Orkest.html |title=Klein Orkest biography |publisher=Sweetslyrics.com |access-date=6 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924181756/http://www.sweetslyrics.com/bio-Klein%20Orkest.html |archive-date=24 September 2011}}</ref> *"Chippin' Away" (1990),<ref>{{YouTube|-UMMJ_JNWAY|Crosby, Stills & Nash 1990 – Chippin' Away}}</ref> a song by Tom Fedora, performed by [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]] on the Berlin Wall, which appeared on [[Graham Nash]]'s solo album ''[[Innocent Eyes (Graham Nash album)|Innocent Eyes]]'' (1986). *"Berliners", a song by [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]] from his 1990 album ''[[Once (Roy Harper album)|Once]]'' (lyrics include "They built a wall, boys, it stayed up for thirty years"). The song uses a BBC news broadcast describing the fall of the wall. *"[[Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)|Hedwig and the Angry Inch]]," a [[rock opera]] whose genderqueer protagonist Hedwig Robinson was born in East Berlin and later, living in the United States, describes herself as "the new Berlin Wall" standing between "East and West, slavery and freedom, man and woman, top and bottom." As a result, she says, people are moved to "decorate" her with "blood, graffiti and spit."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genius.com/Hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-original-broadway-cast-tear-me-down-lyrics |title=Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Tear Me Down |website=genius.com |access-date=20 July 2021 |archive-date=22 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022052751/https://genius.com/Hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-original-broadway-cast-tear-me-down-lyrics |url-status=live }}{{unreliable source?|date=July 2021}}</ref> (1998) *The music video for [[Liza Fox]]'s song "Free" (2013) contains video clips of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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