New Wave Über Alles: Nena, Falco, Trio and the ’80s German Invasion

By Chuck Eddy, eMusic Contributor

Nobody dared call it a German invasion; maybe because it would've been a really weird time for one, as the Cold War whittled down hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops spread across West Germany. (I was one of them from 1982-85.) The Green Party broke through nationally; the Red Army Faction exploded vehicles and soldiers near Heidelberg and Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt bases; 600,000 protesters showed up at a 1983 anti-nuke demonstration in West Berlin. But… more »