When you think of the Berlin Wall being torn down, what do you think of? You may think of oppressed people with sledgehammers, or the joining together of fmilies separated for 45 years. I think of David Hasselhoff and his bravery in facing down Soviet power by himself:

The actor and producer, who says he is working on a film version of TV series Knight Rider, claims he is partly responsible for the fall of the concrete divide.

Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song 'Looking for Freedom' among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

He said he felt he had moved people on both sides of the wall, although he admitted hardly any of the East Germans could speak English. He said: "I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie.

I used have the soundtrack to Pink Floyd's The Wall going through my head when I thought of the wall coming down. Now I've got Dave...please shoot me.