Since I'm on my next Wednesday to prepare exam takes place, it will remain here until then only sometimes calm. See you ...
PS: Gutt bye!
Since I'm on my next Wednesday to prepare exam takes place, it will remain here until then only sometimes calm. See you ...
PS: Gutt bye!
In the second half of the 80s we saw herself as someone who was not a member of the political opposition, as the contradictions in the daily life of the GDR increased. One of the most formative for me while the events may brutal use of the People's Police on 08 June 1987 have been near the Brandenburg Gate in the East Berlin music fans that the concert David Bowie, the Eurhythmics, Genesis and other bands on Reichstag at least wanted to follow acoustic, were auseinandergeknüppelt of the emergency services. Since I usually in the morning before going to school RIAS 2 intervened, I got this in the local media concealed or distorted message displayed naturally with piping hot and made me have a few questions, then without the whole system itself into question . make
To the ever-rebellious youth halfway to keep them happy, carted to approach a hurry Western Super Stars to big concerts, some of which like that of Joe Cocker in 1988 in Dresden and the same year took place gigs of Depeche Mode and Bruce Springsteen in East Berlin Gained legendary status, without of course the ultimate goal - to achieve - distraction and immobilization of the masses.
The hunger for the pop stars from the "other side" was, of course, continues unabated even after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the contrary, the newly arising opportunities interest reached gigantic proportions and put a whole generation of East German artists suddenly cold, a situation that should in the course of years later emerging change nostalgia wave . And so it was not surprising that a two days before the monetary, economic and social union of the two German states took place at the Festival Leipzig Festwiese crowded than 75,000 spectators. On that 29th June 1990 came on the stage of "Dance-House Festival" to pretty much everything on what the decade had to change name and rank. Camouflage , SNAP! , Sandra , Blue System , Guru Josh , Den Harrow , Falco , Daisy Dee , Oh Well - even such oddities like Werner Important ("Pump up the beer" ) or at that time as "MC Lola" firmierende RTL-Astro-aunt Antonia Langsdorf were found to play half back into Saxony. The event was transmitted in both parts of the country adorn but the few on YouTube-to-find recordings of the event, both the code of the transmitter in the second Program of the East German television current youth program Elf 99 and the Munich-based private station Tele 5 .
of this event for years I have a lousy home-recorded VHS recording like a treasure guarded and watched until the complete exhaustion of the tape again and again. In particular, it had me at the time of the appearance of Mysterious Art done that a year ago with "The Omen - Part 1" had a 9 weeks, the number 1 on the charts ended up occupying hit. My favorite was, however, another track played in Leipzig - the quotes from Goethe's "Faust" enriched "Humunkulus (Men of Glass)", which is only a short time later with the "real" money in the pocket on a CD-buying stocks should move in my.
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is opened the round of six-minute" Turn The Nation ", which contains in its rushing forward all the sounds to which Steve Naghavi served for the past two decades. The aforementioned version of "The Center" evaporated for the vocals a bit and makes the dance ability of the track to the forefront, as well as "Over There", which invites you to desert Tanzbodengeschubse. Only throttled to the slow motion "and yet" does not really my taste. A bissel Einstürzende Neubauten a little AG. violin and even a dash of early Goethes Erben - for me not really convincing.
quite different, however, it looks at the final "mono" from. Just a terrific Synthpop number that sticks in your ear and scare the inclined shoe buckles carrier promptly on the dance floor white - clearly the most pleasing track on the EP! Hint: quiet time to let all run to the end ...
Rating: 4 out of 5
The current Ph.D. affair to Mr. Guttenberg to which I, as even strict citation subjugated students have a very clear opinion that the press shall mainly (my current favorite comments here and here ) calls even out for a couple of night thoughts on "repentance", now out of spring Felix Dahn (1834 - 1912).
I know a wonderful tree,
He is doppellebig: it is called repentance,
The dark roots based in the Hell room,
means And the fault, but blue sky,
raises the star kissing, with a sophisticated swing
The tops of the he is, the better.
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course, opens up the reader / listener is not, how close are described on 3 CDs cases the actual events happened. Von Schirach always emphasized that to have guaranteed non-traceability of the episodes of his changes completely. But that does not change in its laconic, austere and businesslike tone, almost amazingly haunting effect of the episodes full of human tragedies of unimaginable brutality and social explosiveness. Could one even in be appropriate to the situation murderer? That question is, given the often resulting from Alltagssituatonen violence one after the other times
With his quiet, sympathetic voice Ferdinand von Schirach himself would have been well suited to bring his work to be heard. The stand but probably his own restraint in the way and so was left to the production of this audiobook, the great Burkhart Klaussner who is able to take at any time the appropriate tone. Especially in the simplicity of the style, the apparent lack of emotion unfolds the full force of the unheard. Thus, I feel, despite the media hype and even surprised adequately leave here very happy to jump the highest rating.
Rating: 5 In of 5
the 9th Class, we got a new music teacher placed before the nose. This tortured simultaneously hear us both with the usual propaganda art of music, from me especially Paul Dessau to Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg ajar and thus difficult to digest "Lilo Herrmann melodrama (can be on the usual video-sharing sites ) has remained in painful memories. However, it was trying to find the now thankfully minimal vocal part (was, finally, some people in closer to breaking voice ), the mostly bored teenagers classical or jazz . The one at the time and of course terribly bleak, the interested views of the musical Telle edge developed at me until much later.
Once or twice in the school year, but we have been a very special offer. We should simply our favorite music tow, this was thrown into a tape recorder and then discussed other teachers. Certainly since the male and female tastes differed significantly in the student body. We rowdy boys laughed wobbled eyes when us such "gems" like "Joe le Taxi "by Vanessa Paradis flew to his head and the sweet femininity has nothing to do with the doctors or Toten Hosen .
My ambition was always on these occasions is to bring something that guarantees none of the plan that was our teacher in the least. Personal antipathy? revenge for "Lilo Herrmann? I do not remember. So I tortured the class once with" Galleons Of Stone "by The Art Of Noise and one day it rattled me completely when I Abigail Mead and Nigel Goulding "Full Metal Jacket" from the same Kubrick - film (the latter being East Germany was "too cynical" prohibited) anschleppte. I had the track, with its sloping tempo changes and the insistent roar of the legendary R. Lee Ermey was anything but a majority, though, strangely, in the East German radio got hold, but with wild drums enriched Marching Chants of United States Marine Corps in a socialist school publicly perform works, in retrospect, but then something frivolous-crazy. Lucky that the lady was in the second drawer not speak English, or could have been the end with great anger ...
If, as I was blessed to my teenage times, not just with an over-the ego, it was understood the first steps on the ground of contact as a gender thing: looking, longing, stare, and somehow hope for attention. For confident speeches then simply lacked the personal armor, so that you always waited for a happy occasion or a miraculous turn of fate. A location was sought for always being here twice the annual fair, whose attractions in GDR times were certainly not as spectacular as the other side of the wall, whose construction was coming but similar. The young people met on bumper cars or a similar suitable location for the show running, it was inspired by the hip and deafening volume through the speakers hunted music entertain and spent days on most of his spare time.
One of those weeks in the middle of the 80 will remain unforgettable to me for several reasons. Not only that I started to close up eye-witness, the state power, when two drunken, but relatively harmless Pöbler of the onrushing people police were beaten brutally, no one was practicing for days in the above described Extremsportdiszplin and established new permanent records in the bulls without blinking, of course without the object of desire at all the attention was on. I still do not know even their names.
Somehow arg crazed and perfectly into a then very often running in the background songs fit - "Lunatic" of the Italo-Poppers Gazebo ...
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The Mini-finals in 1972 in Belgium, with her sovereign European champions Germany to its assessment, deserves much better than this DVD. Not only having to resort to pictures in black and white had to, no, just as it did when finals (Issue 4 Edition) is missing the original TV commentary and had to go through one of Guenter-Peter Ploog little rousing nachgesprochene report be replaced. This course takes the game a whole lot of effect.
addition began, the German team Although brilliant and was also consistent with Gerd Muller in the lead, but just after the break seemed to want to just play the match down, which would have taken revenge for the 1:2 first goal of the Belgians almost. It was not necessary, but in this tournament could be more playful, for shine with the so-called "German virtues". This remains a rather semi-representation of this edition, especially as the picture looks washed out and more bonus material (as usual) is missing.
Rating: 3 out of 5
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the then still existing as a three piece band had for the title track but also everything draufgepackt to please the fans of the genre . Full-length dance ability and a pleasing melody paired with a snappy rhythm. The models Depeche Mode not be denied, but without really embarrassing run-ons. On a positive note, that this is not an excessive number of variants of the same songs are a mess out, but next to an original as "Radio Forg-Edit" bename Kurzmix nurmehr a stretched to six and a half minutes running length maximum version of the title track called "Forget-Me-Not-Mix" is contained . In addition, with "Can Feel The Drive" and an untitled bonus track instrumental nor required two-and-bred B-sides. When the first song, however, then still existing deficits vocal Steffen Keth clearly a state that has changed over the years heard.
refers Although this silver disc only an ample quarter hour of music, but even for nostalgia reasons, I leave here very happy to jump the second highest rating.
Rating: 4 was of 5
Today functioning as Riesa Stadthalle STERN in my youth from about 1986, the first visited nightlife location. Even for teens aged 14 years such events were sold under the name "student club". Timeframe: 16-20 Clock, alcohol, and compliance the actually prescribed 60/40-Regelung : Nope! The pattern was similar each time, there was always some "round" to the Western charts as pop fans came to his costs as supporters of the doctors (Desert Spring and Pogorunden , I remember ...) or the then more to wild air guitar performances accrual of supporters of the metal fraction . Often it was in this case that is the just the (consisting of parquet flooring) dance floor occupying an interested spectator players circle formed, often more amused than impressed.
to a very special reducer bizarre appearance I remember very good. The mid-80s, the GDR cinemas storming Hip Hop film "Beat Street" had recruited in local climes followers of Breakdance who sought to emulate the screen idols of course. Not always with convincing results, but with even more enthusiasm. However, seemed one of those disciples one, well, a little less akrobatikgeeignetem BMI blessed and so disrespectful, "Fatty, the STAR-Breaker" little dancers called the matching music to shear and waved to all the movements of wild sounds that seemed to excite him over the floor. Why did he but just for one of its most spectacular Performances, which he chose to try Power Moves wild fly off shirt buttons and brought in all parts disassembled purse, of all the of Jimmy Somerville siren voiced "Tomorrow" to the Communards will probably remain forever his secret ...
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1986 time in Leipzig resident Urania-Verlag published book is a product of its time. By the 19th Century labor movement has developed, in contrast to the first volume of the opportunity, the very history of the socialist ideology and committed statements wide space grant. Because of the enormous spectrum of technical descriptions this interferes only marginally and can be neglected as far as possible, if you do not like to look upon as a historical document.
particular note again the excellent illustrations Wolfgang Parschaus , this time connect while in favor of original illustrations into the background, but very easy to understand process descriptions - provide - for example, to produce cement , aluminum or sulfuric . A still highly recommended book from the realm of popular science literature .
Rating: 5 out of 5
strange. I tilled this blog category sooner than once a month, I remember now almost every day a story. Today's song does speak, the "Chomutov trilogy (the previous parts here and here) and leads back to the year 1992.
The reason why we moved back in the small town outside of the Ore Mountains , was the simple fact that the "foot on the accelerator" (see part two) in that year received his sergeant course in cross-level Marienberg and on a trip the other side of those Club run by Bulgarians discovered in almost a week later we arrived. Sure there was the most popular international scar played, but I noticed particularly those nights in a Czech ballad, of which I understood it almost nothing, but I still went some way to my heart. My language skills were limited at that time on, halfway accident to order drinks and to secure the night, for deeper analysis, however, clearly lacked the vocabulary. My former sweetheart, with whom I lack the English or German language skills and could only half-way to be understood, with hands and feet could, at least teach me, here with Shalom, to have the time to do the hottest act of that time still exist on its last legs Czechoslovakia. Only years later, at the beginning of my Internet activities, I was a little deeper dig into the history of the band that formed as a successor of the domestic Super Stars Petr Muk to his first band Oceán (the national edition of Depeche Mode ) was and existed only until 1996.
The song makes me still very melancholy, especially since I only found out by the research for this post by the fact that Petr Muk in May 2010 under still not completely unclear circumstances, was found dead in his apartment and at the age of just 45 years. Mej se hezky, Petr a děkuji ...*
* do well, and thank Petr ...
As I noted elsewhere once saw it on East German television by playing the official video clips of Western bands to the start of the imaginary as the last rescue attempt youth program "Eleven 99" in late summer 1989 rather gloomy from. In radio you whistled merrily to all copyrights and chased of so-called "travel cadres" in West Berlin worried albums in full over the air. As simple moving pictures were not of course have to be resorted to as rather in Italy bought with promo appearances by top artists at the local Music Festival of Sanremo and Saint-Vincent . So I got up "Stripped" by Depeche Mode , "The Wild Boys" by Duran Duran or other acts instead of operating at "Formula One" or MTV movies performing on stage to face - after all, better than nothing!
Rarely had somewhere a "real" video get hold of, I remember that time on "The Jet Set" by Alphaville or "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" by Bruce Cockburn . I particularly is another clip stood out - "Thank God You Woman "by Culture Club in 1986 - oddly enough, one of the most unsuccessful songs of the band, which reached in his year of not even the U.S. or German Top100 and in Britain just at position 31, finished I think the track with. his funky rhythm is still very crisp. Boy George , in this case comparatively styled quite restrained (compare the one with the video for "The War Song"!), shaking next to his bandmates through a studio backdrop in the cutscenes the screen goddesses Claudia Cardinale , Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren and Britt Ekland copied are. More 80s is not really ...
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A total of five episodes (each with a length of about 7 minutes and therefore suitable for the short attention of small audience) follow in their bright colors and the whimsical look of the printed document and are in a kind of cut-out animation film using a mixture of painting and apparently cracked colored paper shaped fragments. All without the hustle and abrupt movements, which makes for good intelligibility. The highlight is of course the story about the greedy hungry caterpillar, the chrysalis for a week and slips durchfutterten as a beautiful butterfly. However, "Daddy, please get me the moon from the sky," "The little cricket sings her song," "Chameleon Motley "and" I paint a song "know their own and different ways to convince. A special congratulations to Speaker Stephen Schwartz for the emotional intonation of the lyrics!
are technically be criticized enough. The stories are indeed" only "in Dolby Digital 2.0 before, but does it really high-end sound in children's entertainment? Rather, the rather short running length of the DVD is to be regretted, the loving style makes here but everything worthwhile over. It may very well to buy be an and DVD advised varying the partial translation of the original text, however, could lead to many irritations. Therefore, besides the already mentioned shortly, very light trigger, which of course changes nothing in an absolute buy recommendation.
Rating: 4 out of 5
The year 1990 I will always be one of the most confusing and most eventful of my life in memory. Especially the few months between the introduction of the D-Mark in East Germany at 01 July to the reunification 03 Of October, some of Wilder completely lawless states á la the West. No wonder there were still the legal provisions of the GDR, which were originally not intended for the realities and thus plenty of room for all sorts of anarchy and crime also left.
Even in the peaceful province of Saxony did in this respect a lot, also shot set up makeshift stalls everywhere, and new party venues from the ground. The already mentioned in these memories "steamer" was transformed to semi-closed in those days managed roulette illegal casino, other previously visited my weekend goals altogether. But opened near my apartment for a late Riesaer United restaurateurs (and now again totally crashed) ascended, previously completely unknown a huge tent for party events. From today's perspective, almost absurd primitive wooden plank floor to the dance floor, sheltering, front page, a few trinkets at the beer tent sets - a luxury Disse is different! Nevertheless, jostling in front of the inlet on all opening days of the masses, even in the absence of alternative deals in town.
What this dance in the temple IKEA-style, however, differed from his predecessors, was added to the impressive light and sound system, which is still significantly different from the largely caused by homemade equipment of GDR sweatshops. In the floor was even a stainless steel dance floor and recessed the Ossikinder for us was really something new because it had to date at the inherent tiles or parquet floor of the respective locality abgehoppelt. This piece of metal, however, brought me on a warm summer night of that year in light balance difficulties, what can I have the crossover to the dance-floor stomper "Do not Miss The Party Line" by Bizz Nizz .
was in those days in the local widths a strange dance style emerged, a kind of fast Moonwalk represented on the spot. So we jogged in jerky movements, no great move away from its position on the dance floor. I braucte a while until I had done on it technical coordination, then I put all the more wildly. What I do not that evening saw: Someone was just there, a tube of hair gel allowed to fall (who actually carries with something on the runway ???), I shuffled in my rage on it, of course, and pasted my position up properly with the perfect lubricant. I was in party mood (and probably a bit alcohol technically Breeding discontent) that I do not paying attention to me but to my surprise more and more urgent in the splits legs. My former friends stood by and of course, with broad grins, clearly enjoyed the somewhat odd-looking one-man show ...
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Of course, everything in the shadow of the top hits " Girls Just Want To Have Fun " (6th place in the German charts, USA: 2), " Time After Time " (also position 6, U.S.: 1)" She Bop (No. 19, U.S.: 3) "and" All Through The Night "(No. 35, U.S.: 5), but it pays well, even an eye on the rest of the cast in the original version of the album ten pieces. As would be sung with impressive vocal range opener "Money Changes Everything", for me one of the hidden highlights of the disk or pop- funky "When You Were Mine "the If the Prince-authorship of any sounds, without which it loses its independent flair. With "Witness" is even poached in Ska -realms and with the just 46 seconds of "He's So Unusual" in the "Roaring Twenties" , truly an amazing variety of styles, which is here spread out before the listener ear!
a little undecided acts solely "I'll Kiss You", which indeed comes along very snotty, but in its quality from the rest of the tracks falls. At least know "Yeah Yeah" to reconcile the accounts. So you have with the mixture of beautiful ballads, and even today, high-energy dance bangers á la "She Bop" is one of the finest pop albums of music history in their hands, not to forget that others think well of good material is offered. Thumbs up!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Today once again a song double feature. The commonality of the two so different tracks is their use as reinforcement in the car but in a very intense time of my life lived in the years 1992 and 1993. As described in a previous blog entry , we spent - one consisting of 4-5 persons friends - our weekends are often beyond the border in the small Czech town Chomutov . I admit in retrospect to be happy that you're in a big blast there can be, generous tasting of various alcoholic beverages included. No wonder, it was but at that time in exchange rates between D-Mark and crown near the 1:20 mark almost outrageously cheap, so we were also happy to approximately 150 kilometers Directions on us. From today's perspective, you look a little mellow on the many absurdities and late adolescent excesses of those days, what Queens 1975 Opera Audibles "Bohemian Rhapsody" and nine years later published "Holding Out For A Hero" the Welsh Bonnie Tyler are examples.
To explain the first part is first of all the knowledge of oldies "Wayne's World" of 1992 required. Right at the beginning follow the main characters, from Mike Myers plays Wayne, his best pal Garth ( Dana Carvey ) and their friends with Garth's rickety AMC Pacer through the night city, while the in-car radio serial "Bohemian Rhapsody" sing along. When at last begins Brian May's guitar solo rude, forfeited all five occupants of the car in desert headbanging . Well, exactly this movie scene was a couple of party animals, in several sets of wheels on virtually every trip partly readjusted several times ... Bonnie Tyler
song from the Jim Steinman phase in turn served as the removal or timer. We searched in Chomutov on up to three different clubs and occasionally commuted several times a night back and forth depending on mood state and party spot. The distances were several kilometers through the city, but once there the fastest in the team managed to swish the route within this song, clinging to the rest of the inmates at all afraid of the cart handles. Hard to believe that the perpetrators of this levity is now working as a professional driver. But everything went well, all time-barred and I know today, he is now also more relaxed way ...
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The love among the first occupants in 1940 as a resistance fighter in the camp is provided Jerzy Bielecki in in 1943 entered the camp Jew Cyla Cybulska. In order to save them from certain death, he devises a daring escape plan that they using a stolen SS uniform should lead to freedom. But although the project succeeds, it is for the two lovers a happy ending, as his Polish family relationship with a Jewish woman is not tolerated and members of the now simulate the partisans fighting the death of Jerzy cyclase. Even the girls served up a lie about the fate of the beloved and so everything seems in vain - by the year 1983 ...
Rolf Becker reads this moving story with quiet, the subject matter more appropriate voice. Not only does this book describes the horrors of the extermination camp in a penetrating way it deals with with the anti-Semitism the Catholic Polish people also still a little known and often ignored until today and declared taboo piece of history. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5 is not of 5
is late again become, before we found a little leisure for themselves. Work, family and the pending matters or take advantage of casting their shadows. So today some times directly to the evening and night atmosphere of Friederike Henriette Kraze (1870-1936).
The hours wore each a load
As long as the sun woke up in the hands,
As never wanted to complete the circle.
was now but the last fading luster.
And finally lifted the crown from the day. On Schuh'n
velvet with silver feet pale
pulled Thus, the Evening to her from far
rich soil that was still recent in purple.
And since the peace quietly slipped into the room
And I closed my eyes, the mean wake up, wake
Da 'he gave me a golden child And laughing
came with my youth joyful step.
And like a blade's blowing through my dream: Only hard
follows day so fair catches,
mutterlind thus covers only suffering and burdens
The night of the soft shell Silbersaum.
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continues today German-Dutch soccer rivalry founded in World Cup final of 1974 had, in the semifinals of the European Championships 1988 just 14 years old. However, the game in the venerable Hamburger Volksparkstadion did pretty much everything to all good and ugly side effects of such a grim power struggle needs. Some great moves alternated with ugly fouls, acting through the now generally made tougher nowadays two or three times brutal. A well Klinsmann taken out, at least doubtful penalty is topped by a glaring mistake that the playing on the leg of the ball Jürgen Kohler stumbling Marco van Basten also has a (by Koeman transformed sure) gave a penalty. The latter stood at another player (but not be seen on the DVD) for seriously unsportsmanlike scene in the center, as he deals with the demonstrative after the game by Olaf Thon obtained jersey wiping the ass. Hours of fighting the hooligans from both countries in downtown Hamburg round off this inglorious day football history, who, by the following two years became legendary -round match at the World Cup in Italy quickly forgotten.
It would all be much nicer. After initial sampling, there were attractive to watch football, which of course the eventual winners the Netherlands with his trio van Basten, Rijkaard Gullitt and - the first three places in the election to Europe "Player of the Year" 1988 - fun had his nose in front. The 2-1 victory is a last-minute goal by van Basten took place despite all the tragedy, therefore in order. However, many things are just too annoying to have to pay real classic feel. The already counted not one of the most likeable of international football Dutch keeper Hans van Breukelen robs his Reklamiererei and the open and hidden (though now repented ) venom last nerve of even the neutral spectator. I think that nowadays would be rewarded in such frequent sardonic applause or thumb high stretching in the direction of the referee quite promptly to early showers. In the past, not everything better ...
The picture and sound of the DVD is acceptable, even the comment Wilfried Lucht's to meet the needs of this edition. Unfortunately, here too, with scenes before kick-off and after the final whistle stingy, something added to preliminary reports from 1988 would have been made today, this interesting. Due to the very ordinary game but the second highest rating.
Rating: 4 of 5
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This "Greatest Hits" contains a coupling with a barrel length of 75 minutes jam-packed CD almost all the hits of the scooter, apart from the year 1976/77 after all, came in 13th place on the German charts "Yesterday's Hero". With the numbers from the second half of the decade makes itself heard the rising Influence of the disco wave noticeable, whereas in the early songs still somewhat rough-playful with elements of glam rock is supplied reached. Not all songs were written by the band members, it can be found on this repertoire cross-section such as the Bowie number "Rebel, Rebel" or pieces written Jeff Barry , Phil Coulter or Bob Crewes .
However, not convince all the tracks. "Once Upon A Star", despite a slight drift Beatles bonds compete with the Schlagenhaft from, others, such as "The Way I Feel Tonight", the kitsch Gene exceeded. On strengthening the role was always, if it were just played straight, whether in "Shang-A-Long", "It's A Game," "Bye Bye Baby" or "Rock N 'Roll Love Letter"
The final Megamix may be of interest to collectors, he was not absolutely necessary in this comprehensive compendium of 23 tracks.
Rating: 3 out of 5