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 was in Paris attending court hearings against his former manager. Partly influenced by the Krautrock sound of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Neu!, "Low" evinced a move away from narration in Bowie's songwriting to a more abstract musical form in which lyrics were sporadic and optional. "Low" and "The Idiot" were mostly recorded in France, and of Bowie's trilogy only "Low" and ""Heroes"" were recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin, nicknamed "Hansa by the Wall" for its proximity to the imposing structure that divided West from East Berlin. Although he completed the album in November 1976, it took his unsettled record