Special Train to Pankow) is a song by the German rock singer Udo Lindenberg, released as a single on 2 February 1983.

The interview was recorded in East Germany and presented one day later as information from the State Committee for Broadcasting, Monitor Department, to the SED's chief ideologist and cultural officer, Kurt Hager.

Honecker is portrayed as an ossified and hypocritical man who officially endorses the ideology of the Soviet government, but is inside a rocker and secretly listens to western radio.

It says: "Tоварищ Эрих, между прочим, Верховный Совет не имеет ничего против гастролей господина Линденберга в ГДР!"

It took place at the Rock for Peace festival in front of 4,200 people in the Palace of the Republic, but Lindenberg did not sing "Sonderzug nach Pankow" at the request of the GDR leadership.

Furthermore, Honecker wrote that he would pass the leather jacket on to the Central Council of the FDJ so that they could give it to a rock fan.

[5] When Honecker was in Wuppertal on 9 September 1987 during a state visit, Lindenberg gave him an electric guitar with the inscription "Gitarren statt Knarren".