Let freedom ring: How music helped fell the Berlin Wall
The significance of a shift in thought and how it moves people to act is often only discernible after the fact. That’s why, on this year’s 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I think back to what happened before it fell. And I think of Joe Cocker.
My wife and I traveled to East Germany several times in the 12 months leading up to what Germans call (“the turn”) on Nov. meaning “to be spoken to in a condescending way,” to be treated like a child, ignored.
