Vom Urknall bis zum Mauerfall
A ringing social history reflected in songs from East and West
In music, in hits, chanson, pop, and rock, it's about people. About feelings and memories that are connected with songs: about the trip to vacation, the first love or breakup, the first high, the last cigarette. With music, young people have rebelled against their parents, sometimes even emancipated themselves. Each generation has its own songs: "Hit history is social history, even if many do not like it," as film critic and music biographer Wilfried Berghahn once wrote. At least this is true for the time when computer programs could not yet develop melodies and stitch words into pleasing clichés. In that time, people wrote lyrics about things that moved them; other people set them to music, arranged, recorded, and sang them.
In surprisingly many of these songs, one discovers cross-border commonalities in East and West. Some things came to a halt at the "Iron Curtain." On both sides. Henry Nandzik and Dirk Rave sing through the history of the two German states based on a mix of hits, pop and rock songs, and chansons, telling their story sometimes chronologically, sometimes thematically: from the post-war years shaped by hardship in East and West, through the tame 50s and rebellious 60s until the fall of the Wall.
With hits and songs by Bärbel Wachholz, Evelyn Künneke, Bully Buhlan, Trude Herr, Ruth Brandin, Helga Brauer, Vicky Leandros, Tanja Berg, Frank Schöbel, Gitte Haenning, Nina Hagen, Hoffmann and Hoffmann, Karat, and many others, all newly arranged for accordion by Dirk Rave.
Singing along is encouraged!
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