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When the trailblazing Bill Haley And His Comets arrived in Germany for live shows in October 1958, few could have predicted the trail of chaos that would follow in their wake. Trouble was already seemingly brewing at Hamburg’s Ernst-Merck-Halle when young gig-goers fought with guards from the city’s student association and 100 policemen who tried to clear the venue. At the Berlin Sportspalast on 26 October, though, things turned even uglier as 500 rock’n’roll fans among the 7,000-strong crowd battled with police. Five policemen were beaten and six audience members were severely injured. Damage to the Berlin venue was estimated at more than 50,000 DM (the equivalent to 120,000 EUR in today’s money). The chaos left the authorities on both the West and East sides of the city enraged. The West Berlin senate banned all future rock’n’roll concerts while the official Communist Party newspaper of East Germany, Neues Deutschland, blasted Haley in a front page editorial claiming he was “turning the youth of the land of Bach and Beethoven into raging beasts.” Local media considered the riots the worst that Berlin had ever seen.
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