After the wall came down and David Hasselhoff conquered the Eastern German charts with “I have been looking for freedom”, this was the second tape I posessed.
After the freedom was there because walls dividing a country were pulled down, my mom and me danced Lambada in our living room, out to the courtyard, embracing the opportunities the changes had brought. A piece of the world that had seemed so far a year ago manifested itself now in our frontyard. A piece of Brazil in Eastern Germany in the sweltering heat of the summer in 1990.
Fran
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It’s very funny, you know.
I also remember Lambada and it stays in my mind.
It was about the time of collapse of the Soviet Union, I guess in late 80’s, as I was still a kid.
Soviet TV was boring. But nearly everybody in the country watched programm called “Morning post” on TV, every Sunday morning at 9 o’clock.
It was one of the rare occasions to see some music and videoclips. Usually were there some boring Russian singers, or pop bands from Poland, Czechoslovakia and eastern Germany… Do you remember Spandau Ballet?
and then, one day we so some crazy Brazilians shaking their asses in bikini on the screen! Wow! That was a bomb.
In a week time you could here lambada everywhere: in shops, from open windows, even at school at pioneer’s parade :)…
Were you a pioneer?
I also remember dancing lambada with my cousins, because it was fun.
Did you watch some films with Goiko Mitich in Germany? Did you collect Mongol Suudan: Mongolian stamps? Or maybe collected stckers from cheap Turkish bubble-gum Turbo or wore disco-shoes?
strange times…i was sitting in a bar and randomly there was a karaoke night and guess what they played: “Gold” from Spandau Ballett….i was a pioneer and was just about to get the blue neckscarf when socialism suddenly broke down and a new breeze of politics entered the former GDR… this was at the tender age of 7 so I gave the disco shoes a miss… you are so right : Lambada seemed to start as a breeze and suddenly became a storm overnight! Goiko Mitich - how can I forget..and Lex Barker of course!Did you also watch Bud Spencer and Terence Hill?