Berlin (AFP)

From David Bowie to Rostropovitch's cello, the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution that accompanied it are associated with songs and musical performances passed down to posterity.

Here is the "playlist" of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the enclosure that symbolized the Iron Curtain in Europe.

The Scorpions - "Wind of Change"

The melancholy rock ballad, and its mythical opening whistle, has become the musical symbol of the end of the Iron Curtain. Klaus Meine, the singer of Scorpions, had written the lyrics on his return from Moscow. In the summer of 1989, the Hanoverian group was indeed invited to play in a festival, an idea of ​​Gorbachev to mark Perestroika, "the wind of change" initiated in the USSR. Finally recorded in 1990, "Wind of Change" remains the best-selling song of all time in Germany.

David Hasselhoff - "Looking for freedom"

The actor of the series "Alert to Malibu", with distant German origins, had reinterpreted this dusty German tube a few months before the fall of the Wall. For New Year's Eve 1989, with this song for the title, David Hasselhoff starts, wearing a sequined jacket inlaid with light bulbs, in a flagrant but furious play-back, perched on the remains of the wall. Since "The Hoff" has become an icon in Germany and even has a museum dedicated to him in Berlin.

Bowie & Springsteen, hero of the East

On June 6, 1987, David Bowie, who lived for several years in Berlin, performs at the foot of the Wall. The speakers are deliberately turned towards the East, where young Berliners brave the police to hear this music "decadent" and prohibited. "The wall must fall!", They chant as clashes erupt. This concert thus becomes one of the starting points of the popular protest in the GDR. A year later, the loose ballast regime and Bruce Springsteen is invited to play. 300,000 East Berliners, eager for rock and freedom, resume in trance "Born in the USA".

Rostropovich plays Bach

"I came to play here to remember all those who died because of this Wall". November 11, 1989: Russian virtuoso in exile Mstislav Rostropovich jumps into a Paris-Berlin flight. The old man, his cello in hand, walks his way through the exalted crowd gathered at Checkpoint Charlie. He finds a chair and starts playing a Bach sonata at the foot of the graffiti wall. In an emotional silence, even if some do not recognize the famous musician and throw him pieces, the improvised recital is broadcast live by several televisions and disrupts the whole world.

Pink Floyd - "The Wall"

Despite its title, the famous Pink Floyd song of 1979 is not inspired by the Berlin Wall at all. But it becomes emblematic - in a duet version with Cyndi Lauper - thanks to the concert organized by the group's founder, Roger Waters, eight months after the events. In the ruins of Berlin's former "no man's land", a gigantic 170-meter-long wall is reconstructed and destroyed on stage for this cathartic concert attended by more than 350,000 people.

Udo Lindenberg - "Sonderzug nach Pankow"

Prevented by the RDA authorities from coming to play in the East, the German rocker Udo Lindenberg replicates in 1983 with this provocative title - on a cover of Glenn Miller - and head-on attacked the secretary general Erich Honecker, portrayed as rigid and hypocritical ruler in secret Western radio. The irreverent rocker, whose regime dreaded the influence on the youth, will finally be allowed to sing in East Berlin in October of the same year ... but not this title.

Kaoma - "The Lambada"

What is the relationship between the zouk and the end of ideologies? The song of the Caribbean band was simply, in the west, the hit of summer 1989. And at the foot of the Brandenburg Gate, jubilant Germans, including a policeman in uniform, put themselves in November 1989 to dance in front of a fiery camera glued tight on this air then synonymous with freedom and joie de vivre found again.

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