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Helden<br />

This was clearly an ex-war zone and now it<br />

was an international boundary, which was<br />

really scary. We recorded 500 feet <strong>from</strong><br />

barbed wire, and a tall tower where you<br />

could see gun turrets, with foreign soldiers<br />

looking at us with binoculars. Everything<br />

said, ‘We shouldn’t be making a record<br />

here.’<br />

Tony Visconti<br />

Checkpoint Charlie, the fabled gateway between<br />

West and East Berlin. Tony Visconti, sitting<br />

alongside David <strong>Bowie</strong>, Iggy Pop and Coco<br />

Schwab, watches nervously as the guard scrutinises<br />

their passports, while his colleagues cradle their<br />

machine pistols ominously, all of them overseen by a<br />

low, glass-fronted watchtower. Suddenly, the guard<br />

calls for assistance: Friedrich, kommen sie hier!<br />

The party freezes, looking on as the second guard<br />

flips through the passports – suddenly both of the<br />

Prussian-Grey-uniformed figures, sidearms at their<br />

hips, break into laughter.

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