November 9, 1989
Dennis Dutton`s Arts & Letters Daily has a heap o` links, and Ross Douthat has a good column.
Let`s party like it`s 1989 with songs about the Berlin Wall:
David Bowie: Heroes, 1977: Video / Lyrics (and here`s a terrific live version video, supposedly from a show in Berlin in 2002; it doesn`t have as much of the great Robert Fripp wall-of-sound of the studio version, but Bowie looks like a million bucks at age 55, kind of like how Cary Grant reached his peak at the same age in North by Northwest).
Sex Pistols: Holidays in the Sun, 1977: Video / Lyrics (“It`s guys like me they`d shoot first”)
