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"99 Luftballons" (German: Neunundneunzig Luftballons, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons"(German: Neunundneunzig Rote Luftballons), with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was also released by Nena on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan.
In that same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". [1] Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002. Combined with the success of ...
Kevin McAlea is an Irish keyboard player and songwriter, known for his work with Kate Bush, David Gilmour, and Barclay James Harvest and for writing English lyrics for the song "99 Luftballons", as the international hit "99 Red Balloons". [1] He also plays saxophone, guitar and uilleann pipes.
99 Luftballons (German for "99 Balloons"), also known as International Album, is a compilation album by German pop band Nena, released in April 1984. It was their first album released worldwide following the success of " 99 Luftballons " [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and also the first with English lyrics.
Nena was a West German Neue Deutsche Welle band formed in West Berlin in 1981. In 1983 and 1984, their German-language song "99 Luftballons" (and its English version, "99 Red Balloons") reached number one in the singles charts of countries around the world.
A line in their lyrics, "this is it, boys; this is war", recalls "99 Red Balloons", the English version of Nena's 1983 hit "99 Luftballons". Lyrically, the song expresses the existential angst of a young protagonist who is a long way from home. [2]
If it were 99 Red Balloons, it would be 99 Rot Balloons. The word luft reiterates that these are balloons filled with air. This is the way the Germans speak and write. If it were meant to be as others state, the song would have been titled 99 Balloons. There is nothing to say the balloons are red anywhere in the songs title.
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