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 condition to want to make friends." Recordings from the tour made up the live album "Stage", released the same year. It was around the time of "Lodger" (1979) that Bowie began framing his previous two albums as the beginning of a Berlin-centered trilogy concluding with "Lodger", largely as a marketing technique to support the unusual new album. "Lodger", the final piece in what Bowie called his "triptych", eschewed the minimalist, ambient nature of the other two, making a partial return to the drum- and guitar-based rock and pop of his pre-Berlin era. Recorded in Switzerland and New York, the result