As the media remembers the fall of the Berlin wall and stand mesmerized by archived video of their own reporters like Tom Brokaw at the scene, just remember that David Hasselhoff was not only a B-actor in the USA – but was a bona-fide rock star in Germany back then.
The “Hoff” almost got hit by a bottle rocket (1.52 of the clip) at the New Year’s Eve celebration there in 1989 just as the wall “fell” and he was at the height of his singing career.
Had that rocket hit him, who knows what would have become of his cheeseburger decades later?
The true “wall-crusher” in action – 1987:
