Here is one track from the album "Lust for Life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJP77-jBg5Yhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(album)well, I happened to be down there in Berlin, the autumn of 1978 when Bowie and Pop was there.
I was about to by some acid. I was with my friend Henry that lived there.
I got interested of a gig one evening that should be made by a Nina Hagen, noone had ever heard about this young artist but the ad in "Zitty" was promising.
I went there but I did not enter, I had to leave for Sweden because I had to drive my Taxi on schedule. Henry and I went there and he knew a guy who was connected Nina so we talked about her and had chat.
As we stood there and finally saying goodbye to each other outside the theatre where Nina was about to have her show, then a MC choopper came, and on the backseat was Iggy sitting. And they parked and Iggy went in, so I can tell that Iggy Pop watched one of the very first concerts with Nina Hagen. They are both much punk.
Anyway, I went home with my trips hidden in a toothpaste tube and sewed in in my jacket.
The first stop for the train was after five minutes - in East Berlin. And the customers came.
Is this "Brustabletten" (effervescent tablets)? asked the female custom officer when she found my headache pills. Yes I said, and that was the closest they got to any illegal drugs.
I've had experienced Berlin. And soon someone would send me promotion material of Nina Hagen with the idea that I should arrange a gig for her in Sweden.
