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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The P-U-H-D-Y-R
The PUDIS are the biggest East German band, massive. They started off playing Western music as cover songs in pubs and village walls. The authorities told them they can't play anymore and ban them from public appearances. So they kind of stayed with their heroes in the West, like Uriah Heep, but wrote their own German lyrics to go with it. That worked so well that they were really popular both East and West Germany.
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