The Beat Has Gone: Thoughts and Opinions 'bout a Long Forgotten Scene
Uli Trepte, Eurock, 2000
IN 1968 A mutated kind of mindset emerged in then West Germany to form a scene that turned the tide of times, after the war in this dull, real square country, and set the general cultural directions for the next decade.
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