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NINA HAUGEN

NINA save us from boredom

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…

'Godmother of Punk' Nina Hagen has traveled the choppy roads of the music business, but what does the legend have to say about 'chart success'?

Paris, Olympia, 1980

Woman in punk amongst a sea of men. This is a celebration of some of our favorite leading women in punk from the 70s based on attitude and punk clothing style: role models we can certainly be inspired by: studs, spikes and all.

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