NINA HAGEN ON LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN IN 1985

[Joebunkyss1]

David( I represent the common man,and he may not like.) letterhead reminds me of Bill Grundy . Just can't react without a script.!.then chews on his own foot.

[jeannybates]

Beautiful Ninaaaa

[jrmetmoi]

The boots are hot

[LTHJAMAN]

2:18 I like your look myself too. xD Love her! <3

[jaseyboy]

Her face at the end makes me feel a bit sad; that moment she realises that he's taking the piss out of her (fairly gently it has to be said).

These 80's interviews are fascinating. Anyone else feel kind of like her personality changes in small ways depending on her hair colour? Here with black she's quite coquettish and almost shy. With pink she was very open and sweet, white hair made her fierce and fun, and blue hair had her kind of cold and pointed in her interactions with interviewers.

[Milliusism]

She's delightful!

[kingboy69]

I remember how much fun she was back in the 70's/80's. It's so cool to see her personality, and how she interacts with Letterman.

[sykurful]

what kind of question is "will you turn pink again?"... fuck this idiot yankee!!!!

[armondpb]

she grew up in the what tradition?

[jk64jk]

@armondpb Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill - playwright and composer best known for The Threepenny Opera.

[PARHARIDOU]

Nina Hagen has a tremendus voice ! noone is like her! anyobody heard her singing live can tell.

[djuri0612]

GOD Letterman is such a ASSHOLE and part of that whole 'what ever is different from me I will reject it immediately because I am afraid of what I don't understand' way of thought

[NOMADdaf]

@djuri0612 oh he understands it. Thats why he is still rich and 10 times more famous. And sadly Nina followed the drug heads of england back in the 70's And now few people even know who she is. She could have been so much more.

[bgdjohnny8]

Letterman - Nerd. (Then and now) Nina - Awesome! Doesn't anyone in America remember Nina??? Lady Gaga comparisons - OK. She was certainly influenced by this woman. Nina was classically trained. Perfect voice.

[LunaticLuis]

she is so sexy

[Narcissiaxx]

Ahhhh that man is SUCH a dick.

[NOMADdaf]

@Narcissiaxx He is a comedian and apparently you don't get that just as she clearly didn't get it.I have seen her with other comics and she takes her self so seriously that she has no idea she is brought on AS a joke.She is mocked far more than she is admired.Sure she has a following but so did Charles Manson,that doesn't make him great.Well come to think of it it is probably the same crowd following.

[TinyVessels00]

i'm a sophomore in high school. i wasn't around when nina was at her most popular, but i can proudly say that she is what got me interested in german culture and language. she is the queen!

[VirAmicusSpaceTime]

I so so so remember watching this back in Texas...when I was first becoming a great Nina fan...and was so incredible to see her. Fantastic and funny...witty.

[siouxise82]

David Letterman is a jerk- let the Muslims kick his ass.

[jrmetmoi]

She is the female drag queen and I love it!

[1958carola]

sie iss einfach echt, ne richtsche marke!



[HunterCR]

Amazing!!!

[MrSamiitho]

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED WOMAN!

[pradeeptubeu]

Luv Nina!

[easygoingbloke]

nina taking the piss out of lettermann god bless her.very clever lady.lettermann no match for nina.

[Adler36]

German Lady GaGa! :-)

[RubyGaia]

Gods, She's HOT!

[Hockeyiskindofcool1]

ummm what she saw were the Aurora Borealis...this woman needs professional help!

[xyxaxsoon]

@Hockeyiskindofcool1 if you knew anything about her you would realize just how honest and lucid she is,shes amazingly consistent compassionate clever and unique pity more people in this world dont have such a generous spirit 

[Hockeyiskindofcool1]

@xyxaxsoon ya no offense...but sound minded people will tell you she saw the Aurora Borealis...sorry, just stating a fact, no offense intended.

[xyxaxsoon]

@Hockeyiskindofcool1 its actually part of the act did you not notice the pseudo personality disorders all part of the christian punk thing she however a christian

[Volchijhod]

Can't believe I missed her in the 80's. Thank god for U-tube. Time is insensibly becoming non-linear as internet links us all across time and space like the neurons of some giant brain creature. God only knows where we are headed but, for better or for worse, the mankind of the future will bear little resemblance to the mankind as we still know it today.

[jrmetmoi]

@Volchijhod You're high! But otherwise Nina seems cute in this.

[andmaketherain]

@Volchijhod Wait till DNA modification becomes in vogue...

[lalaXPlala]

it seems like she just learned what she said by heart

[Evil6Michell]

And I love her make-up!!!!

[Evil6Michell]

her english is cute :D

[KingkyKongBen]

Nina is HUGE!!! Everywhere!!! Thank u so much whomever put this on YouTube. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed her.it's going on 30 years I've been a fan of hers and still a Fan!!! Yay!!! Wooot !!!

[KingkyKongBen]

She really is down to Earth!!! I've had the pleasure of making her acquaintance several times in England & Paris. She's one with the Universe and very intouch with her senses. Often misunderstood and ridiculed which just shows how stupid ppl can be sometimes. She just brushes these idiots off. Thank god! Love ya tons Nina.

[lucyintskye]

I love how weirdly down to earth she is.

[rgur90x]

@lucyintskye she seems down to earth here, but not in her other interviews where she usually seems kinda spacey and crazy. i think its because she had to focus on speaking english and she was nervous beeing on such an important show (you can hear in her voice that she's not as comfortable as she usually is)

[ZLUGGO]

Absolutely gorgeous!!

[DaArbiter]

I just found her tonight and I'm already falling in love. Also I can relate to people talking about her hair like that. She was so nice and sweet in the interview

[ZLUGGO]

@DaArbiter

I bet Letterman wanted her.

[Problembeing]

Talk about her fucking music you IDIOT!! Talking about her hair for half the interview. Ach!

[MixtapesStillBeatMP3]

Terrible english, cute accent :D

[ttaz4dqm]

Lady WHO? I LOVE YOU NINA!!

[VIEWTUBE00000]

Lady Caca can go crawl under her bed cuz Nina Hagen is the real deal. All those who came later are pale imitations.

[Stace1632]

@VIEWTUBE00000

Amen. Cant stand lady caca. Call her that too. I dont get it at all.

If people knew their stuff, they wouldn't even think twice. Nina has always been the real deal.

And she loves God...Something most dont know and most artists dont appreciate today.

[NOMADdaf]

@Stace1632 well good to know she loves the magic man in the sky. Because he is about as real as her sadly dead "career". Funny how she is a Buddhist, but baptized a protestant ,all the while believing in UFO's. Guess she just wants to cover all the bases rather than actually believe in something real. Its all good.

[NOMADdaf]

@VIEWTUBE00000 not a fan of either but Gaga sells more every year than hagen has in her entire life.

[dabeiisalles]

@NOMADdaf

that doesn't mean anything.

selling records does not mean that somebody is better in art.

art is art.

[Girlinmanhattan]

@NOMADdaf that's onnly because of the internet dummy.

[NOMADdaf]

@Girlinmanhattan it is quite the opposite. More people have heard of her because of the internet. She has not been mentioned in the USA for decades.The last attention she got here was David Letterman and it died there. P.S. he thought she was nuts back then. She has been relegated to the drug addled lost and used as a joke from time to time.Her song with Hino was just that. It is sad, she had so much to offer but chose to drop down to the lowest common denominator.

[dayveo]

Nina Hagen would probably rather you didn't say nasty things about other performers..

@VIEWTUBE00000

[ineeditmore]

Oh Nina! Thank God for YouTube I missed so much of your amazing career, happy to be able to relive. Dave....you're so you....

[surfmcgoogler]

I love these old Letterman clips.

[travisandlisa1]

That is one weird lady.... Dave's hilarious!

[Atheist2006]

WTF?

I didn't know that Nina Hagen was so famous in the US..

[nikotwasik]

holy crap, lettermans such an idiot! she's so great.

[nouveauxdecadence]

I LOVE this, it's so AMAZING!

[sehene]

classic!