01 Badlands
02 Out in the street
03 Boom boom
04 Adam raised a Cain
05 All that heaven will allow
06 The river
07 Cover me
08 Brilliant disguise
09 The promised land
10 Spare parts
11 War
12 Born in the USA
13 Chimes of Freedom
14 Paradise by the C
15 She's the one
16 You can look (but you better not touch)
17 I'm a coward (when it comes to love)
18 I'm on fire
19 Downbound train
20 Because the night
21 Dancing in the dark
22 Light of day
23 Born to run
24 Hungry heart
25 Glory days
26 Can't help falling in love
27 Bobby Jean
28 Cadillac ranch
29 10th avenue freeze-out
30 Sweet soul music
31 Twist and shout
32 Havin' a Party
Notes: This show is partially broadcast on East German television and radio - Out in the Street and Promised land make TOL tour debuts - Born to Run is full band for the first time on the tour. Thanks to Mark for the corrections, through Brucebase. The original broadcast footage was released on a factory-pressed DVD entitled “Behind The Wall” on the Bossvideo Ltd. label. Oddly, this show was announced by the promoters as a "Concert for Nicaragua" (see ticket stub), which upset Bruce and prompted him to give his infamous German-language speech prior to "Chimes Of Freedom" about "not being here for or against any certain government, but to play rock’n’roll for (you) East Berliners...in the hope that one day, all barriers will be torn down." A few minutes before the concert started, Bruce had the words translated and written down in phonetic spelling by his personal German driver, George Kerwinski, and the speech originally included the word "walls" instead of "barriers" – this was changed at the proverbial last minute because it was (rightly) considered too delicate by Jon Landau upon finding out what Springsteen wanted to tell the audience, so Kerwinski had to literally climb onstage during the show and tell Bruce to say "barrier". Of course, the entire speech was censored in the original East German television and radio broadcasts anyway, although it was shown on various TV news reports in West Germany.
A fan present wrote: "19th of July 1988: Bruce played over 4,5 hour in East-Berlin. 175.000 people (unofficially 500.000) were there to celebrate him. I paid lousy 19.95 East-Marks for my ticket, but what I really bought and got was a glimpse to freedom. I smelled the American spirit that night. I will never forget!"
