Disinformation » David Hasselhoff http://www.disinfo.com alternative views, news & information—online, video and print Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:13:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War? http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/did-david-hasselhoff-end-the-cold-war/ http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/did-david-hasselhoff-end-the-cold-war/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:26:29 +0000 ralph http://www.disinfo.com/?p=14161 this story from the BBC in 2004 kinda funny. This headline also seemed to inspire the title of a book from a great publisher in the UK, Icon Books. If you don't take Icon's or the BBC's word for it, watch the Hoff in action at the wall below (or better yet, the music video for "Looking for Freedom"):
Barely a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the city that had been divided by politics for more than 40 years was united in song. And leading the chorus of several hundred thousand voices was a man hitherto known to the rest of the world for driving a talking car. David Hasselhoff, star of the hit 80s TV series Knight Rider, is renowned in celebrity-obsessed circles for being Big In Germany; not only as an actor, but as a purveyor of soft rock anthems. For that seminal concert, on New Year's Eve 1989, Hasselhoff stood atop of the partly-demolished wall and belted out a tune called "Looking for Freedom." (Continued on BBC News)
]]> With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today, I found this story from the BBC in 2004 kinda funny. This headline also seemed to inspire the title of a book from a great publisher in the UK, Icon Books. If you don’t take Icon’s or the BBC’s word for it, watch the Hoff in action at the wall below (or better yet, the music video for “Looking for Freedom”):

Barely a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the city that had been divided by politics for more than 40 years was united in song. And leading the chorus of several hundred thousand voices was a man hitherto known to the rest of the world for driving a talking car.

David Hasselhoff, star of the hit 80s TV series Knight Rider, is renowned in celebrity-obsessed circles for being Big In Germany; not only as an actor, but as a purveyor of soft rock anthems. For that seminal concert, on New Year’s Eve 1989, Hasselhoff stood atop of the partly-demolished wall and belted out a tune called “Looking for Freedom.” (Continued on BBC News)
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