{"id":227266,"date":"2026-07-29T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/rocking-the-iron-curtain-how-queens-1986-budapest-concert-cracked-the-soviet-bloc\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:49:08","slug":"rocking-the-iron-curtain-how-queens-1986-budapest-concert-cracked-the-soviet-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/rocking-the-iron-curtain-how-queens-1986-budapest-concert-cracked-the-soviet-bloc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking the Iron Curtain: How Queen\u2019s 1986 Budapest concert cracked the Soviet Bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 July 1986, a concert by British rock band Queen in Budapest symbolically tore down the Iron Curtain. A crowd of 80,000 filled the People&#8217;s Stadium to feel the first wave of freedom. The band&#8217;s official photographer Denis O&#8217;Regan recalls that night in an exclusive interview with Euronews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/07\/29\/rocking-the-iron-curtain-how-queens-1986-budapest-concert-cracked-the-soviet-bloc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 July 1986, a concert by British rock band Queen in Budapest symbolically tore down the Iron Curtain. A crowd of 80,000 filled the People&#8217;s Stadium to feel the first wave of freedom. The band&#8217;s official photographer Denis O&#8217;Regan recalls that night in an exclusive interview with Euronews. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":227267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}