Commentary: Tokio Hotel making jump across pond

September 18, 2008 Four long-haired young men from across the pond have come to the U.S. They send massive crowds of teenage girls into a frenzy in their native country, and now they're in the States playing clubs and appearing at the MTV Video Music Awards in Hollywood. Germany -- and when they started out, frontman Bill Kaulitz and his identical twin brother Tom, the band's guitarist, were only 13. Besides selling almost 3 million CDs and DVDs, racking up 13 platinum records in German-speaking territories and packing stadiums throughout western and central Europe and Japan, they've transformed the fringe esoteric image of German pop into the new global teenybopper cool.

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