{"id":10452,"date":"2016-01-11T22:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T03:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=10452"},"modified":"2016-01-11T22:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T03:36:26","slug":"how-david-bowie-did-his-part-to-end-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2016\/01\/11\/how-david-bowie-did-his-part-to-end-the-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How David Bowie Did His Part to End The Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/163219860\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/163219860?et=BaeeRukdRUhxZdnBCs07Fg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=vhSg6qmyhbIU5b26iWAcheHeq6DA1aHM13qJKwkGHoo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I never knew this.<\/p>\n<p>David Bowie, who died on Monday, lived in Berlin in the 1970s and was particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/b20113b0-8753-11e3-9c5c-00144feab7de.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">moved by the wall<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Wall moved Bowie and changed him. On his three-gear Raleigh, he cycled alongside it, as can today\u2019s visitors (thankfully no longer surrounded by a quarter of a million Soviet troops).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">At the flashpoint of the world, where a single shot could have escalated into nuclear war, Bowie found a place of calm and learnt to write about important things. He evolved a more coherent vision for himself and a new age. He captured and defined its quintessence, speaking for, even embodying, a confused generation that had lost hope in ideals and dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later, he had the opportunity to perform in front of the Wall for both West and East Germans. Though the East Berliners were not allowed to get too close, they stood at a safe distance and listened. Here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/performingsongwriter.com\/david-bowie-songs\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">part of an interview with Bowie<\/a>\u00a0in which he describes this moment:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11243\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/files\/2016\/01\/CYbMNrbWcAAYkPe.png\" alt=\"CYbMNrbWcAAYkPe\" width=\"552\" height=\"559\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Order my next three books on Amazon:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=nancfren-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1621574636&amp;asins=1621574636&amp;linkId=JVRWCIBLBIQTDMTV&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" 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