The German rock band City first came together on the soviet side of the Iron
Curtain in 1972. Guitarist Fritz Puppel and drummer Klaus Selmke started
woodshedding like many other bands playing the rock songs of the day, and the
rest of the band rotated before coalescing with the addition of singer Toni
Krahl and bass player Georgi Gogow. It was, surprisingly, Gogow’s ability on the
violin that led to their signature recording, “Am Fenster”. A folk song that
sounded little like the straight ahead rock the band played, a four minute
version of the song was recorded in the mid-1970s...