{"id":10295,"date":"2019-11-11T18:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2019-11-24T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T01:24:14","slug":"how-knight-rider-brought-down-the-berlin-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/11\/how-knight-rider-brought-down-the-berlin-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"How Knight Rider Brought Down The Berlin Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from TIME Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Hasselhoff Looks Back on His Surprising Role in the Fall of the Berlin Wall<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0OLIVIA B. WAXMAN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OwAr6MVl8hQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saturday marks\u00a0the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall,<\/a>\u00a0when, on Nov. 9, 1989, Berliners breached the 12-ft.-high wall that had divided the communist East side of the city and the capitalist West side of the city since 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not only the beginning of a new chapter for Germany and the World, but also a new chapter in David Hasselhoff\u2019s career. The actor and singer had made a name for himself in the U.S., especially as the star of the TV show\u00a0Knight Rider<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>but he became even more of a celebrity in Germany after his song \u201cLooking For Freedom\u201d (an English adaptation of the 1978 German hit \u201cAuf Der Strasse Nach S\u00fcden,\u201d often translated as \u201cOn the road to the South\u201d) came out in 1988, followed by the album of the same name in June 1989. It topped the charts in West Germany, in large part because its lyrics about the long search for freedom struck a chord among those living in a divided Germany. The coincidental timing of the song\u2019s release and the wall\u2019s destruction made Hasselhoff a surprising symbol of the end of the Cold War, a position cemented by his performance at Berlin\u2019s Brandenburg Gate on New Year\u2019s Eve 1989.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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