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Despite the marketed perception of Berlin as a city overflowing with techno music; until the 80s the city's music scene was dominated by rock music with artists like Van Morrison, Sinead O'connor and Pink Floyd performing in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. A. F. N, American Forces Network, a free radio and television service, setup by the United States Military in Germany in 1945,was influential to the German people who were exposed to exported American music for the first time and specifically, experienced the wealth of Black music that had been contained and distributed by the American music industry. Jazz, Funk, Soul, Disco, Hip Hop, House, Techno and Popular music as constructed by Berry Gordy and Norman Whitfield at Detroit Motown Records.