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NINA HAGEN: Habanera [MERV GRIFFIN + DON RICKLES wishes Lex10 a Happy Birthday!]

Nina Hagen performing "Habanera" from Carmen on Merv Griffin, takes seat next to Don Rickles on the couch. Hagen is extra-strange here, and her topics of discussion include: God,

UFOs, politics, animal rights, vivisection, alien sightings, her marriage to 18-year-old Punk, 'Iroquois', and an Acapulco recitation of her anthem, 'Don't Kill The Animals.' She also discusses her upcoming tour with Stiff Records Artist, Lene Lovich, for 1986,

as well as wishes Stephen [lex10] the alien a happy birthday--fucking weird shit.

In late 1980, Hagen discovered she was pregnant, broke up with the father-to-be Ferdinand Karmelk, and moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter, Cosma Shiva Hagen, was born in Santa Monica on 17 May 1981. In 1982, Hagen released her first English-language album: NunSexMonkRock, a dissonant mix of punk, funk, reggae, and opera. She then went on a world tour with the No Problem Orchestra.

In 1983, she released the album Angstlos and a minor European tour. By this time, The English version of Angstlos, Fearless, generated two major club hits in America, "Zarah" (a cover of the Zarah Leander (#45 USA) song "Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen") and the disco/punk/opera song, "New York New York" (#9 USA). From 1984 to 1985, she dated Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Her 1985 album Nina Hagen In Ekstasy fared less well, but did generate club hits with "Universal Radio" (#39 USA) and a cover of "Spirit In The Sky" and also featured a 1979 recording of her hardcore punk take on Frank Sinatra's My Way, which had been one of her signature live tunes in previous years. Her contract with CBS over, she released the Punk Wedding EP