Music in Berlin Christiane F.'s book "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo". With a "New Europe" emerging at the end of the Cold War, the rock band U2 chose Berlin, in the centre of the reuniting continent, as a source of inspiration for a more European musical aesthetic. They recorded at Hansa Studios in West Berlin, near the recently opened Berlin Wall. Several acclaimed records were made at Hansa, including two from David Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" with Eno, and Iggy Pop's "The Idiot". U2 arrived on 3 October 1990 on the last flight into East Berlin on the eve of German reunification. Industries that
Berlin Trilogy on the album started before Bowie's own "Low", Pop's "The Idiot" is often referred to as the unofficial beginning of Bowie's Berlin period, though the two albums were recorded almost concurrently. The album "Low" (1977) was recorded as Bowie grappled with difficult personal issues, including a troubled marriage and drug dependence: "There's oodles of pain in the "Low" album. That was my first attempt to kick cocaine, so that was an awful lot of pain. And I moved to Berlin to do it. I moved out of the coke centre of the world ["i.e.", Los Angeles] into the smack centre