Of Course.

Because Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen hasn't gotten enough credit or attention over the years, now there's a book out contending that his 1988 Berlin concert is a major reason for the fall of the Berlin Wall:

On June 19, 1988, on the Tunnel of Love Express Tour, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played to their largest crowd ever, an open air show in East Berlin a year before the Berlin Wall fell. Introducing "Chimes of Freedom," Bruce took a moment to address the crowd in German:

Es ist schön in Ost-Berlin zu sein. Ich bin nicht für oder gegen eine Regierung. Ich bin gekommen, um Rock 'n' roll für euch zu spielen in der Hoffnung, dass eines Tages alle Barrieren abgerissen werden.
["It's great to be in East Berlin. I'm not for or against any government. I came here to play rock 'n' roll for you, in the hope that one day all barriers will be torn down."]

For that speech we looked to a new book by Erik Kirschbaum, Bruce Springsteen: Rocking the Wall. Subtitled "The Berlin Concert That Changed the World," the book makes the case that Springsteen's concert, and that statement in particular, was instrumental in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: "Because it was so short, it may be one of the most underappreciated anti-Wall speeches ever made. But considering that it was delivered inside East Germany, it probably did more to shake the Cold War barrier than all the anti-Wall speeches in West Berlin combined, by Kennedy in 1963, Reagan in 1987, and everyone else between."

But his Chimes of Freedom is an Xmastime superslice of superslices.