Cliff Barnes And The Fear Of Winning

Cliff Barnes and the Fear of Winning is a German independent rock band that was founded in Quakenbrück in 1986 and disbanded for the first time in 1992. A first reformation took place in 2001 and a second in 2014.

The founders were English Robert "Tijuana" Giddens, who had already made a name for himself as the manager of DAF in England, the guitarist Heinz "Henry" Rebellius and manager Gisbert Wegener. The band released their first recording "The Record That Took 300 Million Years To Make" in 1987. This was followed over the next few years by around 300 concerts, two tours of Texas, a sensational tour of the GDR in 1989 following an official invitation from the FDJ, as well as several LP and CD releases. These included the LP "Cliff Barnes and the Fear of Winning", which was to go down in history as the first cooperation between a GDR and FRG label.

One of the band's biggest successes - primarily in the German independent scene - was a tribute to Nancy and Ronald Reagan, which was officially called "Nancy & Ronnie In The White House", but internally went by the name "F***ing in the White House".