Chords for NINA HAGEN - LETTERMAN INTERVIEW 1985

Who's been called the mother of funk the diva of rock and the most intelligent and amusing person with pink hair on the planet
This is her latest album right here Nina Hagen in ecstasy, please welcome singer Nina Hagen _ _ _
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Good lord now I said you had pink hair and you had the pink hair here on the album
Obviously, you're not wearing pink hair tonight.
No, I just come from Greece and from Spain and I wanted to
_ Look more Greek and more Spanish because we just shot a video down there for spirit in the sky the old hippie Norman Greenbaum
Hit from the 60s.
So you changed your hair for that [B] purpose? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ This is not yours is it no now how much how much of what we see there is actually your hair
Well, I have like such a tame.
I said now will you be turning it back to pink soon? _
Maybe and what would cause that was there?
[C] Is it a conscious decision?
Do you just wake up one day and say let's go pink or I [Bm] was I [B] was traveling on our tour bus through Europe
And I was thinking I want to have long
Blonde hair and my stylist and the woman who changes my costumes what while I have my show on stage.
What's her name?
Trisha
_ [D#] She is a hair stylist and she can do [N] extensions which is very in in London
What does that mean extension extensions is you suddenly?
Have long hair when you have short hair _ _
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You have [N] it forever as long as you want to okay now back up here a second
_ _ Trisha could take my hair just as it is.
Mm-hmm and make you look like boy George.
No, [B] no, but she _
_ _ _ _ _ She can make short hair long.
Yes, you can and and in a short period of time is it take like a couple of weeks?
No, it takes like half an hour.
Now.
How do you do that?
[N] you
Iron them on like with some glue and with some _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So then it's perfectly safe
_ _ _ _ Okay enough about the hair you look great I mean you're stunning you make a real stunning appearance I like your look myself
Thank you very much.
Now.
Hey, you're you're more than just a
Musician you're you're you're a explain what kind of a performer you are you're okay.
It's beyond words, of course
_ [F#] You have to see my show to believe that I'm the only unique
Nina Hagen on this planet major major star in Europe and and as well here in the United States
Are you as oh, I have [B] a following _
Wherever whenever I am on tour they come it's always sold out.
You're touring the United States now
Yeah right now and I play on Saturday in New York.
Yeah, tell people who may not have been to one of your shows
What kind of okay.
Um, I'm opera singer.
I can sing Brecht while _
I create my own lyrics.
I have a great band.
I have a drummer from East Berlin.
I mean myself
I'm also from East Berlin.
I grew up [N] in the Bertolt Brecht Kurt Weill tradition
also in the old
_ Hippie tradition when I was 11, I was a big fan of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and they are still my heroes and
I
sing songs about UFOs God _
Love sex seven eight nine ten eleven
_ [F#] _ But all of this information is on the tickets when the folks pick [Bm] them up.
So no
We have a bit of you.
I guess this is from a video or is this you in concert or both?
That's both, okay.
All right, you know where this was filmed.
Yes.
It was rockin.
Were you the biggest open-air festival?
Was in Brazil in Brazil.
All right.
This is a Nina Hagen performing here folks watch closely
And then we'll come back and chat a little more _
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_ _ We're talking about you this afternoon getting ready for your appearance on the show and I came up that you've seen a UFO in Malibu Yeah
That _ was when I was pregnant with Cosmo who was four years old now
[B] That was in the middle of the night and it was great.
I was mesmerized.
I couldn't think anymore and [N] I I _
Was a great feeling and it was hanging right over me
It was the beach where Bob Dylan and Barbara Streisand also have their house
The beach was overwhelmed by the ocean last year and
It was showing all kinds of colors
_ Real light show.
How big was it?
Ten meters big and round and
_ glowing glowing in different colors yellow pink green turquoise and
Every each color had another feeling made me feel different.
Was it doing any hair extending?
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Hang on a second Nina.
We'll be right back.
We have to do a commercial and then we're coming back _ _
_ To Miss Humidity Claire Henderson also Paula Poundstone Nina Hagen
You'll be at the Beacon Theatre this Saturday in New York.
Good luck to you.
Nice meeting you.
Marv Albert also
Join Dave tomorrow with Pee Wee Herman.
Have a nice night folks.
Thank you
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