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Scritti Politti: Perfect Way.
How about German Peter Schilling's song Major Tom? This was when I started listen to pop music, when I was in 4th-6th grade. All this 80's crap on the radio.
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Groan...
hey coulda been worse- if you lived in Germany in the '80s, you couldn't get away from:
[size=6]NENA![/size=6]
whose big hit was "99 Luftballons" (or 99 Red Balloons).
[img]www.nena.de/nena/hp_g/d_pics/lp09.jpg[/img]
She and her group were ominipresent- on TV, radio, always on tour, talk shows, game shows (!), kids' shows. You couldn't turn on the TV/radio or look at a newspaper or magazine without her puss staring you in the face...and it went on for years.....
[img]http://www.nena.de/nena/hp_g/d_pics/lp04.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.nena.de/nena/hp_g/d_pics/si02.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.nena.de/nena/hp_g/d_pics/si03.jpg[/img]
After the worldwide, VERY unexpected success of 99 Luftballons, they pretty much gave up trying to replicate that success in the non-German-speaking world, (couldn't write good Englsh lyrics, heavy accent when singing in English), so the made sure they kept the German-speaking world under their thumb, so to speak....
The band broke up eventually, but she, Nena, originally Nena Kerner, a former goldsmith's apprentice (!), BTW, still kept at it, with the same name, but as a solo act.
She's still at it, twenty years on, and still, somehow, omnipresent- I give her credit for that- where are most artists from the 80's today? She makes children's records, acts in movies, does voice-overs for cartoon films, does duets with Kim Wilde, has her own TV shows (at least a while back), writes books, newspaper columns... love her or hate her (I kinda did both, 20 years ago), she's still around, and making a good living at it. And she's got four kids!
[img]http://www.nena.de/nena/hp_g/d_pics/si69.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.nena.de/nena/hp_g/pics/nena_bio.jpg[/img]
Unkraut vergeht nicht!