Especially the Italian kind. Eastern Europe is a late career safe haven for washed up or B-List italo-disco musicians like Francesco Napoli. It also applies to bands like Modern Talking.
In general, the amount of restrictions on western music “being banned” is more a case of official releases (vinyls, cassettes) of bands being hard to come by and those that did, usually did so for the fans at a loss (such as the Depeche Mode concerts in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the GDR during the 1984-1985 Some Great Reward and 1987-1988 Music for the Masses tours) due to for example eastern currencies being worthless in the west.
Western music was played in the radio in at least the GDR (recording from September 1989), (exhibit 2, from 1976) and Poland (recording from January 1985), (exhibit 2, reggae special from 1989) - I can’t speak about other countries, since I can only speak German and Polish well out of all the Eastern Bloc states’ languages.
One of the most popular music genres in the 70s and 80s USSR was disco. People will believe anything about kooky foreigners.
Especially the Italian kind. Eastern Europe is a late career safe haven for washed up or B-List italo-disco musicians like Francesco Napoli. It also applies to bands like Modern Talking.
In general, the amount of restrictions on western music “being banned” is more a case of official releases (vinyls, cassettes) of bands being hard to come by and those that did, usually did so for the fans at a loss (such as the Depeche Mode concerts in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the GDR during the 1984-1985 Some Great Reward and 1987-1988 Music for the Masses tours) due to for example eastern currencies being worthless in the west.
Western music was played in the radio in at least the GDR (recording from September 1989), (exhibit 2, from 1976) and Poland (recording from January 1985), (exhibit 2, reggae special from 1989) - I can’t speak about other countries, since I can only speak German and Polish well out of all the Eastern Bloc states’ languages.
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