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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 29, 2018, 12:56:50 pm ---Now, about the 99 Red Balloons, a friend gave me a movie called "The Red Balloon" recently. It is a short French film about a boy who was "adopted" by a balloon. I wonder if the two things are related.
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I've seen that movie, though I can't remember where or when or under what circumstances. Maybe it was in a French class.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 29, 2018, 12:56:50 pm ---Now, about the 99 Red Balloons, a friend gave me a movie called "The Red Balloon" recently. It is a short French film about a boy who was "adopted" by a balloon. I wonder if the two things are related.
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The song is not connected to the movie.
Before the group became famous, Nena went to a concert in their homeland of West Berlin, to see the Rolling Stones. At one point in the show, helium balloons were released. Nena member Carlo Karges imagined the balloons going over the Berlin wall into East Germany, and being picked up on radar, and mistaken as an attack, and the result is World War III.
The original German "99 Luftballons" translates to English as 99 Balloons. The record company hired someone to write a "poetic English" version of the song, and the title became "99 Red Balloons".
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: southendmd on March 29, 2018, 01:26:39 pm ---A dark day indeed.
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Why am I not surprised? :laugh:
Hey BBP, give me your opinion on this one. Nena recently paired up with Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics) and together they've released the song "Be My Rebel". Sounds pretty different from "99 Luftballons".
southendmd:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 29, 2018, 06:03:56 pm ---
Hey BBP, give me your opinion on this one. Nena recently paired up with Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics) and together they've released the song "Be My Rebel". Sounds pretty different from "99 Luftballons".
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Um, Chrissi Hynde wants her look back.
CellarDweller:
lmao!
The question was on the song, not Nena's appearance. :laugh:
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