Top 2000 D                               ;Hier können 42 Chars benutzt werden
Author: Harry/D-TECT                     ;Hier nur 29 Chars
Last  summer the  radio stations  SDR 3  ;Die Zeilen müssem 39 Zeichen breit
and  Jugendradio  DT 64  of the  former  ;sein. Die ganze Seite ist 46 Zeilen
GDR tried to break the world  record in  ;hoch +2 für überschrift u. Autor.
sending  the longest radio-charts. They  ;JEDE Seite muß eine Überschrift
wanted to play  2008 songs on line with  ;haben!
a  little break of  five  minutes every
hour  to send the news and  comercials.

The world record  was  set up  by SDR 3
in 1989 with its Top 1000X  (1501 songs
were  played). The  Top 1000X was  only
moderated  by two  reporters: T. Siller
and  S. Schmidt, whereas  the Top 2000D
was presented by eight moderators. They
were  split up in two  groups. One team
was in  Stuttgart  (S. Siller, M. Hold-
mann...) and the other was sending from
Berlin (F. Leinardt...).
Everyone  could  participate, you  just
had  to write  a postcard  with ten  of
your favourite songs.
Almost  every style  of music  was con-
tained:  Pop, Trash, Rock, Wave, Metal,
Acid,  Funk, Punk....  accept  Classix!
The  most  successful bands  were  'The
Beatles', 'Depeche Mode' (especially in
the east  of Germany) and  the 'Rolling
Stones'.
I listened nearly 16 hours a day and it
became really a drug for me. I listened
all the day, while I was reading, while
I  was eating  or watching  TV. I  even
listened  to Top 2000D while I was sit-
ting in the bathtub!
It all started on 17th August at 1 a.m.
and endet on the 25th August, after the
local TV-station  of Stuttgart (S3) had
transmitted  the final  14  hours  live
from  the radio-station and  the Vasen,
where the four moderators presented the
songs on a video-screen. The other team
in  Leipzig a party, too  and both were
connected via satellite.

...and this were the top hundred:
         (Turn the page to look at it!)