using my mr. thomas way discover the. house work starts nov 14th on the. alamo says he was always interested in us in east germany even during the era of the iron curtain and that was really nice and this was also in. the spinmeisters up here in the east but somehow it was always a president's. to eat out on the songs back then gave us courage

he wanted to tear down the wall we couldn't believe it. a life spent in opposition to the berlin wall limping back german rock legend painter and vocal critic of the division of german. live we caught up with him in life city where the peaceful revolution against the east german regime began. leipzig is also hosting an exhibition devoted to winton bags of art and his commitment to the people of east germany. things. i'm in leipzig of the museum of thought you know it's

for a very special exhibition special because of the artist who is right here because he's actually better known as the legend of german rock music and i don't use that word legend lightly because this man has the strode to the german rock scene for nearly 50 yes 50 years linda welcome thank you the italians had an. absolutely i'm my 1st question is he in your 8th decade playing 2 stadium yeah the biggest audiences ever. did you know they all love you know the people close to all show you know to carry this through the shoot 300000. is false and all that yeah yeah. we did

a lot of you. know i. thought. this was. it's made from. you know and it brings a lot of love to us does a girl living with a little girl. really good for the draws cheer us what i'm going to give. me me me me me me me me me me me me oh good it is. didn't it. let's find out more about this amazing man mr linden. linden baird is a household name in germany he lives in the hotel atlantic in hamburg and he's created an entire museum dedicated to him. stuff as well as

a musical featuring his songs. born in small town west germany in 1046 he had a domineering father and a loving mother. a brother elation and twin sisters into and if they come to know began playing in jazz bands as a teenager. he was 27 when he got his 1st major break as a singer and lyricist with his band the comic forecast on. their $973.00 album putting rock music in germany on the map revolutionary for that time. would olympian back has written more than $600.00 songs so far and released $36.00 studio albums which have sold millions of copies. from the beginning the iron curtain was a frequent theme in his lyrics. goes. it's still

a boy that is get out of the. loop. the division of germany dramatize it as a love song this. after the fall of the berlin wall of lyndon barracks popularity way in the 1990 s. he began to paint his musical career declined as he struggled with a drinking problem his record sales slumped but true to his motto no panic he staged a comeback in 2008. with guest musicians such as rapper young the late fifty's there may be album shark beats by his 1st to reach number one in the charts. since then the godfather of german rock has been touring tirelessly and selling out stadiums now in his seventy's. is more popular than ever. in the seventy's and the 1980s. you were very strongly against german the division of your

country also sometimes when it wasn't popular to be against it why were you did you feel so strongly about it so uncool to a close to the door to it was was he was doing see the gun do didn't run to move those. young people to mention you can point these out to those who you know couldn't. go on this money in sydney and clones conceptional. to get their kids to own museum. on this. one for now you quoted and symbols on the model city and it would authorize you. that if we didn't you would see your own ferrets as though the scum was scary there's going to be consumers or tanks and guns and more of the. smugglers and more all that.

sort of could have been very dangerous yeah it would as it moves its own though it wouldn't know we're going to the nurse on the wall came down i want to go with you i actually have very little resume and then the world can be. fighting the cold war with humor the exhibition nuances at the museum of fine arts in leipzig charts with lyndon back special relationship with the former east germany and features his own artworks and memorabilia. in the 1980 s. the west german rock star was keen to perform in east germany even present a communist leader on a car with a guitar and a leather jacket and got this instrument ashong. was mistrusts to get a bus to mention what fascinates me and the people of east germany it was the fact he is just completely authentic he's utterly honest and so genuine the woman he's very kind sincere and he's an important figure. he can't just be pigeonholed as

a rock star or a songwriter he's much much more sits. a painter for instance many of his art works he does in cartoon style for some he uses water colors made with alcoholic drinks. the exhibition includes 50 of these unique works he calls the crew had. to open the exhibition living back performed in the lobby of the mike sigman museum to an audience of hundreds of thrilled for. this car the iconic trip pants made in the g.d.r. was a gift from the people of east germany to the west german star as thanks for his opposition to the brick wall. i should explain to the public that in fact to go you could go over to east berlin just east berlin yes but you had to get back by

midnight he wanted to go anywhere else in the media you had to get special permission so you wrote this very well if i may say emotional song about. 1000000000 that's a young go from 0 in your woods was this someone you were in love with yourself this would happen to you know. one to sweden and that meant that they didn't and then i wanted to stay so then he goes and some. says you know this. you know condition that you don't have to stay overnight you had to you know you know. the nose of a solution then i would just need to mention all those the. good we learn the. move the. good snow in order now. i'm also of the. no i love those. you can have.

on this this weed would have to tell this was a run to the news you know to move those no no no i don't because the people in the east some call of the country you're a real hero today i was the official enemy would stay in the city is just just a grip in some some no it didn't go in the. moons and it was kind of too skinny but when was it an issue in the studio in the world you know 6th seed and you know something to would build something to do it in the old mansion in an indian boy is given just wasn't reason. moving over all of you to make inroads on this thing goes in the i think in a machine from the system that didn't it didn't fit the script that's come to play . so not so classic punk is an ironic song directed at east german leader l.h.

hanukah released in january 1903 it was the west german musicians response to not being allowed to perform in the east. that. lyndon bags descriptions of the head of state as a big chief stubborn goblin and rocker were condemned by the east german secret police pushed out such a high streets making it illegal for people to play the song. but in october of 1983 lyndon baird was suddenly allowed to go to east berlin at the height of the cold war east germany wanted to appear cooperative it even allowed him to tour the slum is it a slow. and. it was indeed in the mail stated that it is. but what the rock musician didn't know was that his every step was surveilled by hundreds of stasi officials. then there was the performance of the past.

back played 4 songs at the rock for peace festival in front of a select crowd of party faithful as real fans were left outside where they vented bearing. in the back didn't mince words not even when it came to demands that east germany to some. include india did it in full answer is that. the paper about the concert states that vinton bags vulgar language and his decadent appearance were inappropriate for the peace of the permission to perform was deemed a political misjudgment. lindenberg was too unpredictable for the east german leadership which canceled the plans tour disappointing his east german fans . with

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good had the office the good was good on no missing limb a dog. missing meds and so none the can be moved and most of this was because ns of me did use of the milk in this movie and from another there was and i know. most. of them and the night of november the knowledge you have can you remember how you felt where were you. going to munich. or munich you know something also on some cloudy or through it and then to give a good reason look at t.v. and confirms. you won't believe it is a dream came true the film morning in the wall is over on the next plane with monuments to the. moon and then on the cover you know with some mystery and over with stars and all that you know via other was the invasion suit to order.

one going to put a party on this with this equality as we go through it one is going smoothly and so no one else didn't want to lose it's in the long run we did too it was going to tool for what i'd done years through this was new and so on then many of us in the sewer the citizens of the ad says a new message on and we couldn't go to 0 at least in the congo to dimension conflict and money could easily be you. know lyndon back and his fans had spent years waiting for this moment finally in january of 1980 their dream was for phil east german tour leipzig was the 1st major city on the tour. in june of 2019 lindenberg was back in leipzig once again some of those present remembered his 1st concert there after. the berlin wall fell on michigan's outside boston i had

goose bumps right from the beginning the fashion he played was a challenge and i think a lot of people had tears in their eyes at and it was amazing. to share. thanks. to the young people that. if. it's going to be cool. thank you. al but mostly it was always interested in us in east germany even during the era of the iron curtain that was really nice for me i always thought he was a cool dude with a cool hat and cool classes that. especially it's really emotional and i grew up

here and the nice but somehow it was always a presence in present. began his most famous songs on the books now in the bag charmingly cheeky appeal to the east german regime to open its borders. that's why it was the provocative song why it was banned i recorded it secretly for my west german radio station and i sent it with the volume down i. thought it was in lights of the protests against the east german regime began with the monday demonstrations in the autumn of 1989 is why and if it was a peaceful revolution and suddenly made his own contribution. for lindenberg and his $10000.00 fans of the leipzig arena it was a truly. specially if and just as at his 1st life this concert more than

a few people had chiefs their own. life and now we're celebrating 30 years of wool coming your way you happy the way it's gone. and i see today in. the clones with us it was good lord who dismissed isis nuts no just move forward and assumes most is going on what should we do you can consume it was johnson's on the drums on an. innocent good wooden arms with some notion of this so much fun put him in the oven for the shift in essence to do this . dozens and so months ago over there was a male devotion and this is the buddhist i'm sure a lot just done it on you for different video from. i'm wonder if you can describe yourself in

a few words every german knows who you are but outside of germany maybe know this is what using your doors is in the drug addiction is using it because saving him figs was only shoddy this is old no english singing i would as was is the other thing with humans a good one is in of it is into this just kind of goes in the book text exactly this how to believe oh it's got so it was an issue mrs bush wasn't it the sound of all the all going to war the scenario is it is the view on all of us and good to us as questions when the old was a good morning there's no wonder so shouted in the londoners who goes off to give this thing go to bush on good to them the thing that i know the real thing goes for i will go on deceived you do show some proof for your gun over that include we did not exist feel free and when it was july 1. museum owners have been killed says.

germany is the land of that is poets and thinkers. but i did there was one song you remember you did in english the german and it's so funny. ladies with must say to. you rhyme schiller with. i want more of. me to let. you know. you don't. have too many of you. and give almost. no ground when done and those songs from the ocean can just. go cause when the instrument takes on. the dole suppose.

so. but i would say to people they could come to your concert and understand enough because your concerts today are big and they all feel you tell stories always. other german rock musicians to really do that you do the big show. live in baghdad spans the comic. forecasts talk you know how to push his concerts

are some of the most lavish and expensive in the world. back to go on a limb more than a 100 crew members 10 monster trucks on his mind big. this . is the. size of his 2 concerts for the show m.t.v. unplugged featured guest such as german singer songwriter. the 1st of those live albums has sold over a 1000000 copies making it the rock icons most successful to date. you know a little back doesn't just play gigs he pulls out all the stuff. in this aluminum one avoided on these and he takes all this is this it was a beautiful. noir. this is really flows from good mood you know and kicks the

noise in that fuel so when there was noise and dick it was you you know it was from michael is that if you will show you on the floor most of the this is the cool tool this movie more than all. of this although i. just want to cut it out for those fuel costs. so millions who leads the influence months into oak they view what is in the discourse only to be shot it is due to the international mission for this thing consumed and then the songs were the 1st instance and even though it was old code they address and. you see they tell you this. it's a bit more of one of the last 2 got another thing this a lot of people around it in the exhibition you're a huge doll here in germany and you play a big status. but you're very much

a man of the people how do you keep your feet on the ground your being a star for 50 years but you seem very friendly to everybody or you. will just close it was a mission and they invented us what they could they wouldn't want to. do is that it was shown 20 more 10 on one and nobody knows doesn't believe on the minute it will be for. india overtakes the other with short so devoted to it was always on those will move on to other than your own says this is a total astute meal disclosed to still shoot so he voted the money needed. only to only condone movement on what is a good monsoon. being a slut he was in it just didn't choose and there is none to you. never did not want to put things on the unknown this is a live one with the fuel the thrill uses close in indiana in indiana frozen in the cold. and.

phones issue isn't an issue. on the social this. month the holes which he will still to go. on them middle school in the economy for me. for me the new me. and us generation will see me outside of the film you know i'm doing night in front you know she's. in for photos it's being mazing experience ready to me if you like there's so much thank you for your thoughts thank you for your music most of all thank you for being alive and being here keep on rockin cuban route you do consumer my thanks through no linda from a rubber marrow bye bye for now really good thank you so much and no panic on my. a

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