Thank you, thank you so much for posting this. I was moved to tears and cried like a baby (I’m writing this still with tears in my eyes). Of course I knew about Springsteen’s concert in East-Berlin and its importance, I even knew the short speech he gave in German before the song. But I never knew that he dared to play “Chimes Of Freedom”. It’s such a strong plea for freedom in a song like few others, and the line “And for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail” hit so close to home, there still were many people of that kind incarcerated in East Germany at the time Bruce sang the song.
ETA: and one year later, it all came down. Still unbelievable and surreal to me.