Behind the Iron Curtain is a concert recorded by Nico for "Pandora's Music Box '85" at De Doelen Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal (Great Hall), in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on October 9, 1985. Nico Nico (born Christa Päffgen) was a fashion model, actress, and composer. ... Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands (after Amsterdam), located in the province of South Holland. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). ... See also: 1984 in music, other events of 1985, 1986 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 28 - Various artists, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon...
The "IronCurtain" is a term coined by Joseph Goebbels, and made famous by Winston Churchill, which refers to the boundary which symbolically, ideologically, and physically divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1990.
While the IronCurtain was in place, certain countries of Eastern Europe and many in Central Europe (except West Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria) were under the political influence of the Soviet Union.
An ironcurtain, or eisener Vorhang, was an obligatory precaution in all German theaters to prevent the possibility of fire from spreading from the stage to the rest of the theater.
The documentary Behind the IronCurtain chronicles the Eastern European leg of the Powerslave tour in August 1984.
Fans are shown mobbing Iron Maiden at hotels and talking about the lack of heavy metal groups in their countries.
Behind the IronCurtain is an interesting -- and thankfully dated -- examination of how rock & roll helped break down cultural barriers between the East and West near the end of the Cold War.
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