‘Rockers and spies’ – how the CIA used culture to shred the iron curtain
Two recollections: one, from November 1989, of the crowded bar at 3am in Berlin, near the wall breached just 36 hrs in advance. My buddy and that i have been in town for that craic and greatest street party ever. A terrible band known as Eurocheque strikes up a protective cover from the Scorpions’ Big City Nights and, inebriated, everyone else joins in. An seniors couple in the eastern sector two-steps towards the beat. It’s very moving. A couple of several weeks earlier, the Scorpions had performed a music festival in Moscow, and were already focusing on their most well-known song: Wind of Change.
Second memory: the less epic surroundings of Mote Park, Kent, 30 years later. The Scorpions, this time around legitimate, with bedazzling lightshow and backdrop of peace signs on the holo...







