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The Berlin Event - before and after
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... from Velvet Underground, born in Cologne, sang at "Stanley's" in NY in the sixties and Leonard used to come by and listen to her and it is said, that he dedicated "Take this longing" to her. She died in 1988 on Ibiza, her ashes buried next to her mothers grave in Berlin-Grunewald.

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Oh, in Berlin? We should visit her.... Wasn't she also the inspiration behind Joan of Arc?
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At the very least she must have been "the tallest and the blondest girl"

....more recently, "her body's 20 stories high, You try to look away, you try, But all you want to do is get there first."

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