Cold War Pop

There is nothing so distant as the recent past, especially when narrative accounts of that history are suppressed as official secrets. The cult status of the Sundance/RTL television series Deutschland 83 has revealed to audiences, in both Europe and America, just how close we came to nuclear war in the early 1980s, and the escalation of geopolitical tensions in the final years of the Cold War. However, revisiting the mainstream pop hits of the era, and it would seem the soundtrack was already written.