Only a week late [and somewhat shame-facedly, after all that build-up of "more to come" that I gave her a few weeks ago!]...
...I feel we really need to celebrate the fact that Our Patron Saint of Crazy, Fraulein Nina Hagen blew out 70 candles on her cake last week! (Gulp!)
Our Nina is a remarkable woman of many talents, and since she first emerged into the limelight - across of the ruins of the Berlin Wall that had once divided her birthplace in the East from the rest of the world - she has certainly embraced a whole range of genres. All in her inimitible and unique style, of course!
Here she is in her full-on Goth-Punk heyday in 1982:
...here, covering a Glam Rock classic originally by Sweet:
...from Glam to glamorous, here's her tribute to wartime star Zarah Leander:
...and she also had a rather brilliant foray into House music:
...but whoever thought she would turn a Doris Day number into a dance track? She did, obviously!
...and she even fronted her very own Big Band:
To finish - and to top it all - here is one of my favourite clips of the lady, surprisingly duetting with none other than that beloved purveyor of multilingual smoothness Miss Nana Mouskouri! When worlds collide, indeed...
There is no-one quite like Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born 11th March 1955).
All hail!