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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