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Nina Hagen Redhead Trout Mask Replica, Chris Spedding, Captain Beefheart, New Wave Music, Brian Eno, Nina Hagen, George Martin, David Byrne, Dangerous Minds

Today we celebrate the 59th birthday of that great German singer Nina Hagen. Her cartoon-punkette-channeling-Marlene-Dietrich persona and the sort of high-bombast singing at which Germans seem to excel made her known in the English-speaking world for 1980s albums like the excellent NunSexMonkRock, Fearless and In Ekstase, but she was already known in her home of East Germany for tamer stuff. I can do no better at describing her early years—and the amazing story of how she got out of the…

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Lene Lovich, Derek Ridgers, Marla Singer, 1980s Fashion Trends, Nina Hagen, Josephine Baker, Grace Jones, Rock N’roll, I'm With The Band

Thanks to digital media the line between “rare” and “forget it” has become more like a chasm. The meaning of rarity has changed—it’s kind of funny to see something on YouTube marked “rare” —um, if it’s on YouTube for the whole world to watch at a click I’m not sure how it qualifies as “rare” anymore. It’s similar, though not precisely equivalent, for online marketplaces like discogs.com—if you can find an item with a simple search and buy it with a click, it’s far from inaccessible. It may…

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