Published November 8, 2019 at 4:02 AM CST Among pop culture's great mysteries: How exactly did David Hasselhoff become a rock 'n' roll God in Germany? "That was their song." For him, Hasselhoff conjures up memories of growing up in East Berlin, a block away from a wall that separated him and his friends from the freedoms of the West. "It all started with a girl named Nikki," Hasselhoff said during a recent interview with NPR in Berlin, where he was on a concert tour of Germany. Nikki showed him on a world map, and Hasselhoff went straight to work.

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[1] When performed later that year in German under the name 'Auf der Straße nach Süden' (On the road to the South) by Tony Marshall, it became a hit in Germany.

At this show, freedom was no longer a fleeting vision through a drain hole.

But in the end, The Hoff knows his audience. But by the time the Wall was coming down in bits and pieces, a certain song about freedom had It was 1985. He now admits this was a ridiculous request, but the German show agreed to it. Now Playing The album was released in 1989, a pivotal year for the spread of democracy through Europe: In June of that year, Poland held its first free elections; in November, the Berlin Wall fell.

We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. Thirty years later, on Oct. 3, German Unity Day, Erdmann was waiting to see his boyhood hero in concert at an arena in Berlin. Hasselhoff's agent told him that Nikki had won a contest in a magazine and her prize was lunch with Hasselhoff at his home in Southern California. Within weeks, Hasselhoff was selling out concerts in Austria, and soon his album was topping the pop music charts in Germany and Switzerland too. Communist East Germany was about to crumble. Your album, "Looking for Freedom" is a song by German music producer Jack White originally released in 1978 with German singer Marc Seaberg. It is located in the basement of the Circus Hostel [1] in Mitte district of Berlin, Germany.

Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. Erdmann said he spent 10 hours sewing on the lights the night before. Among Germans, The David Hasselhoff Museum (or The Hoff Museum) is a museum dedicated to the American actor, singer, producer and businessman David Hasselhoff. But it was the title track of another Hasselhoff album, "I remember this one drain hole in the wall, and we used to look through that drain hole to see the West," Erdmann remembered. The song, which was based on an older German favorite, " The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website: This content is currently not available in your region. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic. Marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Hasselhoff needed a pick-me-up. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. Platinum selling recording artist and star of the sand and screen, David Hasselhoff, celebrates a truly historical moment with this monumental new studio album! So, no, David Hasselhoff wasn’t straddling the Wall on November 9, 1989, hacking at it with his bare hands like the rest of Berlin. Instead, freedom was right in front of thousands of screaming fans, singing along to an assortment of covers of songs by bands like Whitesnake, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Neil Diamond while shouting "Freedom!"

Copyright 2020 NPR. See our He remembers groaning, not wanting to go through with it. Your Connection to Music, News, Arts and Views for Over 60 Years "I said [to the agent], 'I'm going through my Ernest Hemingway period.'

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Hasselhoff could not seem to get enough during his three-hour concert. David Hasselhoff has returned to the scene of one of his career-defining moments, boosting a campaign to save the most famous remains of the Berlin Wall… David Hasselhoff hovers in the cage of a hoisting crane above the celebrating people on the Berlin Wall and sings “Looking for Freedom” on New Year's Eve in 1989. "Thirty years of freedom!" "I've been looking for freedom / I've been looking so long / I've been looking for freedom / still the search goes on." To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. He called the magazine that had given her the prize and asked it to suggest a concert promoter. His last song of the encore was, predictably, "Looking for Freedom," and it brought all audience members to their feet, clapping and singing, happy that Hasselhoff was still there to remind them that, in the words of his song, "the search goes on." He was dressed in a piano scarf and a black leather jacket that had blinking lights sewn onto it — a replica of what Hasselhoff wore for his memorable 1989 New Year Eve's appearance in Berlin.

he yelled to his fans after emerging from a hydraulic stage in the middle of the arena. "And I didn't know if they were singing it just for fun or whatever, but later on I found out that they were singing it, really singing it, like 'Amazing Grace,' " he recalled.

"One morning in June / some 20 years ago / I was born a rich man's son / I had everything / that money could buy / but freedom I had none."


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