Like a Rolling Stone: Dylan, Cocker, Springsteen - Weststars in der DDR - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3897738570 ISBN 13: 9783897738577

Synopsis

For East German rock fans, the wall fell not only in 1989, but two years before. Suddenly, Bob Dylan was allowed to perform in the GDR, John Mayall, Carlos Santana... In 1988, 100,000 young enthusiasts pilgrimaged to Joe Cocker to Berlin-Weißensee, Bruce Springsteen experienced 160,000 there at the largest concert in Europe to date. These pilgrimages were Glasnost chimes, dress rehearsals of the peaceful revolution. Always there: two tireless chroniclers of the late GDR. Street photographer Harald Hauswald captured the enthusiasm of GDR youth for the idols from the West in atmospherically dense shots. The pictures he took from the audience are animated testimonies of that time, and the rock stars he photographed as close as it would hardly be possible today. Christoph Dieckmann wrote undersensible rock reports in the culture sheet "Sonntag" that sounded like a song on the dilapidated state. He witnessed all the major Eastern concerts of western rockers - until the legendary appearance of the Rolling Stones in 1990. "Like a Rolling Stone" gathers the best pictures of Hauswalds from those concerts that heralded the end of the GDR and excerpts from Dieckmann's impressive texts from that un-forgetful time. In an introductory essay, the renowned journalist and book author tells why rock in the East was food, freedom dream, and the sound of happiness.

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3897738570
• ISBN 13: 9783897738577
• Binding: Hardcover