Free to Rock

Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonvio- lent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland Narrator (voice) Jimmy Carter Self Mikhail Gorbachev Self Billy Joel Self Elvis Presley Self (archive footage) Mike Love Himself George Harrison Self - The Beatles (archive footage) John Lennon Self - The Beatles (archive footage) Ringo Starr Self - The Beatles (archive footage) Paul McCartney Self - The Beatles (archive footage)

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