Brussels - The "rock star" took on the rock. And the rock won.
Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble, the "immovable object" in the words of one economist, stopped Greece's charismatic new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis in his tracks, forcing Athens to extend a bailout programme on Friday on terms its government was just elected to get out of.
It was not just German opposition. The new Greek found itself without a single firm ally among 18 eurozone peers in its drive to reverse austerity and renegotiate its debt pile.