[1] The band was formed 1982 in Düsseldorf and quickly became part of the Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) movement, playing a distinctly German style of new wave music that owed a lot to both the early UK goth scene as well as the European punk movement.
Their first album, A Dog Is Born was a mostly self-financed affair, gaining limited release in Germany through Pure Freude and imported into the UK by Rough Trade Records.
In 1983, just as the group signed a record deal with Elektra, Jaeger left the band and was replaced by Raoul Walton.
[1] The resultant album, Belfegore, produced by Conny Plank and released with two different cover versions, saw a shift away from the more experimental new wave sound to something harder-edged.
In 2011, acclaimed director David Fincher used "All That I Wanted" off of their second album in his adaption of Stieg Larsson's worldwide bestseller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first novel in the Millennium series.