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Fri 11 Nov 2009U2 strike emotional chord with Berliners on night of celebration

NEARLY 20 years after recording their famous album Achtung Baby here, Bono and the boys from U2 rocked the Brandenburg Gate last night before 10,000 cheering fans.

Drenching the famous monument in emerald green light, the band delivered a rousing Sunday Bloody Sunday, as a fan’s Tricolour fluttered in the night air.