AUGUST 13: Berlin Wall went up / Recording U2-3 / Lou Reed is taped singing along in duet-style to 'Satellite of Love'

Recording U2-3 - August 13, 1979 - Maybe, yesterday, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, but this 27th anniversary is around this date, when after another incredible gig at Dandelion Market, U2 move across town to Windmill Lane where they are booked from 6 in the evening until midnight to work on some favorites - "Stories For Boys," "Boy/ Girl" and "Out Of Control." Edge, Larry and Adam are in the main studio, while an engineer plays jazz piano and the microphone's set up in the control room. Neither Adam nor Larry is the world's best timekeeper and without the fuss and fury of a live show to hide behind, their tempos are not to be trusted. They have problems with "Out Of Control."....read something of U2-3 here

Berlin Wall went up - august 13, 1961 - The day the Berlin Wall went up. Bernauer Strasse where the communist authorities first sealed the border on August 13, 1961. Cold War division and the legacy of the wall was "a stone symbol of a policy of violence". Faced with a mass exodus of dissidents that had reached up to 1,700 per day, the East German authorities closed all routes to the west that summer night. Residents woke to find themselves trapped in the communist sector and in countless cases separated from their families who lived on the other side of the divide. Estimates of the number of people killed when trying to cross the Berlin Wall are still hotly debated, nearly 17 years after the wall fell in a bloodless revolution. Researchers said they have firm proof of 125 cases where people were killed by armed border guards while trying to make it across the wall. But a prominent victims' association, the August 13 Working Group, put the figure at more than 200 after the 155-kilometer-long (96-mile-long) wall went up in 1961. It argues that the total number of people killed between 1945 when the Soviets took control of the eastern sector of Germany and 1989 is at least 1,201 including deaths at the Berlin Wall dividing the city and at the 1,400-kilometer-long border between East and West Germany.

"ZOOTV" tour - august 13, 1992. U2 perform in East Rutherford, New Jersey at Giants' Stadium. Over the two days' concerts (august 12 and 13), U2 perform in front of 109,000 people. The second nights show is better -- the nervousness that pervaded the show on the first night seems to be gone. "New Year's Day" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" are added to the setlist. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is played acoustically. Earlier in the day, Lou Reed is taped singing along in duet-style to "Satellite of Love", and this taped performance will be used later in the tour to allow a virtual duet each show with Reed and Bono. Support is B.P. Fallon, "Primus" and "Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy".