Sometimes you hear a song on the radio and you may have actually heard this song for many years,always thinking it was an original. However it often happens that these “originals” are actually copies or covers.
In this blog I will be looking at the songs in the original language, sometimes performed by the same artist.
Below are some of these real originals. Starting off with the Germans. A nation not that known for it’s musical abilities,well at least in Pop music terms. In the 80s though they came up with this new wave of German music, called “die Neue Deutsche Welle” or New German wave in English.
One of the leading bands were Nena, fronted by the lead singer Nena.
They had a massive worldwide hit with 99 Red balloons, the original however was in German “99 Luftballons”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Dcd1aUcE
In 1988 the Munich band Münchener Freiheit, renamed for the…
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