"Rocking the Wall", the enhanced ebook! This book is about the famed Springsteen concert in 1988 East Berlin; it offers links to the Boss' classic hits on Vevo, powered by YouTube. You will not only read the story, but see the pictures of Bruce and the crowd, and hear the music.
"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.
Inside this book is as clear a statement of the power of this music as anyone, ever, has come up with.”
— Dave Marsh
"An illuminating and impressively detailed examination of a frequently overlooked moment in the nexus of rock music and political liberation. I learned a great deal and enjoyed doing so."
— Eric Alterman
"It was cultural forces, not merely political or military ones, that won the Cold War … Young East Germans wanted their rock and roll."
The Star Ledger
"...a glorious example of the influence that rock ‘n’ roll can have on people who are hungry and ready for change."
The Washington Post
"… the most politically important rock concert ever held."
Der SPIEGEL, Germany
"Springsteen is still with us. The regime of the German Democratic Republic is not."
BBC
"Rocking the Wall also offers a fascinating historical snapshot of Communist cultural officials scrambling to contain the brewing political restlessness all around them."
The Wall Street Journal
"Once in a while you play a place, you play a show that ends up staying inside of you, living with you for the rest of your life.” — The Guardian
"What was intended by East Berlin’s hard-line leadership as a pacifier for their people … had the opposite effect and turned into a powerful agent for change." — The Irish Times
"It was like a brief embrace with the Statue of Liberty."
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