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Outrage over wall blocking free U2 Berlin concert

AP, Berlin
Irish rockers U2 returned to Berlin for a free mini-concert Thursday in front of the Brandenburg Gate, playing its classic singles and a duet with Jay-Z even as the show was obscured from public view by a nearly 6-1/2-foot (two-meter) high metal barrier.
Bono greeted the crowd with the German words "Berlin, Du bist wunderbar!" (Berlin, you are wonderful!) and the band played a 30-minute, six-song set that featured "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," "One" and "Beautiful Day".
Rapper Jay-Z appeared as a surprise guest and performed Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" with Bono.
The show, which was free to 10,000 ticket holders who snapped up the tickets online last week in just three hours, drew some controversy because of the barrier surrounding the gig.
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"It's completely ridiculous that they are blocking the view," said Louis-Pierre Boily, 23, who came to Berlin even though he failed
to get U2 tickets. "I thought it's a free show, but MTV probably wants people to watch it on TV to get their ratingsup."
Boily, from Quebec City, was among several hundred people who gathered earlier in the day against the new fence, which was draped with a white tarp that blocked the view of the^tage1 from the street. Some fans1' already were trying to tear down the tarp before the concert.
The music network MTV, which organised the concert, said it worked with the
local promoter, the city and Berlin police to install a temporary fence "around the site to ensure the safety and security of the attendees at the event as well as residents and businesses in the area."
Parts of U2's performance were later televised as part of MTV's European Music ■^ward9!"The barfd‘'i1^ picked up the show's award for best live act.
The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, ending almost 30 years of Cold War division between the communist East and the demo-
cratic West. Throughout those decades, the Brandenburg Gate stood just inside East Berlin.
In 1988, musicians such as Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson performed in a three-day "Berlin Rock Marathon" on the western side of the concrete barrier, with the landmark as a back-
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Concertgofirs in the West hurled bottles and firebombs at the wall, while some 2,000 youths gathered on the eastern side to listen, many shouting "The wall must go!"