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Rocking The Wall: Bruce Springsteen: The Berlin Concert That Changed the World. The Untold Story How the Boss Played Behind the Iron Curtain

Rocking The Wall: Bruce Springsteen: The Berlin Concert That Changed the World. The Untold Story How the Boss Played Behind the Iron Curtain

Kirschbaum, Erik
Schulze, Herbert
Spengler, Mike

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ISBN10: 3960260997
ISBN13: 9783960260998
Publisher: Berlinica
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Rocking the Wall explores the epic Bruce Springsteen concert in East Berlin on July 19, 1988, and how it changed the world. Erik Kirschbaum spoke to scores of fans and concert organizers on both sides of the Berlin Wall, including Jon Landau, Springsteen's long-time friend and manager, to unearth this fascinating story. With lively behind-the-scenes details from eyewitness accounts, magazine and newspaper clippings, TV recordings, and even Stasi files, as well as photos and memorabilia, this gripping book transports you back in the middle of those heady times shortly before the Berlin Wall fell and gives you a front-row spot at one of the biggest and most exciting rock concerts ever, anywhere. It takes you to an unforgettable journey with Springsteen through the divided city, to his hotel, and his dressing room at the open air concert grounds in Weissensee, where The Boss, live on stage, delivered a courageous speech against the Wall to a record-breaking crowd of more than 300,000 delirious young East Germans full of joy and hope. Their thunderous reaction to his speech was so intense that it even briefly brought tears to Springsteen's eyes. And their tremendous, powerful cry for freedom became the final nail in the coffin of the Communist regime and subsequently helped fuel the uprising that brought down the Wall.

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