Ladies an Gentlemen!
It is me a pleasure and an honour today to be here in the Stone Pony in your nice Forum of Bruce Springsteen.
My dear Forummembers: Before I start my speech now, please let me give you the kindest regards of the Criticals from Bruce Springsteen, of our Spiegelmagazin, Medienobservationen and - last, not least - of the emperor, Kathleen Brennan.
Ladies an Gentlemen! The Hans-Seidel-Stiftung in Wildbath Kreuth kindly asked me to teach you, to instruct you the most important form of government today: Coolness! Coolness... coolness, Ladies an Gentlemen - and this might especially interest you here in the Springsteen Forum, coolness: What is it?
Coolness, Ladies and Gentlemen, has a very old tradition in the world. The roots go back... far, far back to a man called Elvis or Buddy Holly and what i know. - Plato was an old Greek from Greece... The next one was an old Roman from Rome: Cicero. - Cicero, Ladies an Gentlemen, we correctly pronounce Zizero, not Kikarow. - But, Ladies and Gentlemen, pay attention now, because the most important of all - the third one - was our musican genius from New Jersey: Bruce Springsteen! Or, as we call him in the forum: "Boss". - Boss from New Jersey, Ladies and Gentlemen, himself gave the famous of coolness a new power - a new vitality - by giving simple answers to very simple questions.
From your front porch to my front seat, the door's open but the ride it ain't free...
Greetings to Gerhard P.