![]() The first self-styled punks ripped their clothes and crafted homemade patches with slogans on them-often just band names like Sex Pistols or the Clash, but also critiques such as “destroy what’s destroying you” and the logo of Poland’s Solidarity movement. A handful of teenagers in East Berlin picked up on the sound via John Peel’s show, broadcast on British forces' radio in West Berlin. In the late 1970s, there were only about two dozen punks in all of East Germany. The underground music scene-a scene that grew out of East Berlin’s punk movement-played a key role in fomenting and steeling opposition in the country throughout the 1980s. ![]() It’s no coincidence that a band like Die Anderen was at the forefront of the sweeping changes in East Germany right up to the night of November 9, 1989. And suddenly Dafty understood why people were waving their IDs. “We knew he hadn’t fled,” says guitar player Dafty. Then they spotted the singer of another Eastern band whom they’d seen back in East Berlin earlier that day. “We were drunk, and figured they were drunk, too, making fun of us or whatever.”
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