András Simonyi former ambassador of Hungary to the USA, musician. Markos Kounalakis journalist and writer. His wife, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, is the current United States Ambassador to Hungary. In their opinion, rock and roll should take much credit for helping bring down the authoritarian regimes of Eastern Europe since it connected a generation across the East-West divide. Today's rock and roll, a life changing medium, metaphorically speaking is probably the social media.
