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David Hasselhoff
Frost Over the World’s Sir David talks to David Hasselhoff, singer and actor, about the impact of his 1989 hit song Looking For Freedom.
Hasselhoff an actor also crossed over to a music career during the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s. He was noted for his performance at the Berlin Wall in 1989. He enjoyed a short lived success as a singer primarily in German-speaking Europe.
While his star rose, fell and rose again in the US, Hasselhoff’s popularity remained a little longer in Europe during the end of the 80s. Hasselhoff had one number-one hit in the German pop charts in 1989 (“Looking for Freedom”), which very much resonated with the fall of the Berlin Wall at that time, and two more top-ten hits in 1989 and 1993.
Get Hasselhoff to Number 1 campaign
On April 21, 2006 fans of David Hasselhoff launched a tongue-in-cheek website “Get Hasselhoff to Number 1″ in an attempt to get the 1989 hit “Looking for Freedom” to the top of the UK music charts through Internet downloads of the single.
The campaign attracted attention on British radio and television broadcasts, in the national press and on the Internet. Over 40,000 people signed up to receive the “Hoff Alert” email when the time had come to purchase the single.
The focus of the campaign shifted to “Jump in My Car”, when that was actually released as a single, and BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills lent his support. On October 3, 2006 the Hoff Alert was sent out, and Hasselhoff promptly gained his highest ever UK chart entry (number 3) on October 8, 2006.
Hasselhoff was married to actress Catherine Hickland from March 24, 1984 to March 1, 1989.
Hasselhoff married actress Pamela Bach on December 9, 1989 and the couple had two daughters, Taylor Ann Hasselhoff born May 5, 1990 who attends the University of Arizona and Hayley Amber Hasselhoff born August 26, 1992.
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