Ice On Fire

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Feb 18, 2022 · 16m

In late 1985, the Cold War was simultaneously the hottest it had ever been AND it was at the same time obviously thawing. One of the most popular pop music acts of the era released an album that to this day still has a special place to me and has one of my Top Ten Of All Time songs.

I was twenty-two years old, and the previous winter (1984) I had fallen head over heels in love with a girl that would never know that I was alive. Representing East Germany at the 1984/88 Winter Games, she danced across the ice on fire. I know - without any doubt - that I am not the only man who holds her in a…