ROCK CALENDAR: 24th March 1960 was born Nena, a German pop-singer and actress, her hit "99 Red Balloons" was No. 1 in England in 1984

Nena is a singer of the German group of the same name, who sang in German, which is generally nonsense. First, Europe has long sung in English, which everyone knows. Secondly, to sing for the German-speaking countries – so, to narrow down your audience. Thirdly, I personally do not like this language for his apparent tone-deafness, which is good to give commands on the parade ground ranks "of the military, beautiful, hefty..." Of all the music in German, I remember only hit with a dashing chorus of "Ein,zwei, Drei – Polizei" German March "Deutschland zoldaten und a non-commissioned an officer because..." And yet they forced the world to listen to them in German – the second place in the American hit parade for the German version of the song "99 Red Balloons" – which is unique.

Now actually, about the song "99 Red Balloons" (99 red balloons) – as you have seen, it is actually their main hit. The song is simple, in German unpretentious, typically anti-war and would be very suitable for our Komsomol singers of those years, if it was translated into Russian in time. It was written by the guitarist of the band, was at the Grand concert of rolling stones in West Berlin in 1982-then in the sky over Berlin were launched thousands of balloons... and he thought-what would happen if the lights suddenly fly over the Berlin wall? (sorry, but then it was the height of the cold war, and everyone was afraid to see Russian tanks in Western Europe).

So-the balls fly to East Berlin, the air defense alarm is triggered on an air attack, raised to intercept 99 fighters, they took the balls for UFOs and shot, other countries also announced a General alarm-in short, the third world war began. And in the end the author, wandering among ruins, finds in ruins the remained ball. The end of the movie.

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