Nena (album)

Although "99 Luftballons" is by far the most well known globally, the other two ("Nur geträumt" and "Leuchtturm") have for more than 30 years been ever-present features of the live concerts of firstly the band and then Nena in her subsequent solo career.

However, after Nena performed it on the TV programme Musikladen in August 1982, it catapulted the band to fame in Germany.

[10] Written by Nena and her boyfriend Rolf Brendel, the band's drummer, it is about a couple longing to spend time together.

2 in the German charts where it stayed for seven weeks from late October through early December 1982, being blocked from reaching No.

[12] If the track was the one which launched Nena's career in Germany, where its release preceded "99 Luftballons", it had the opposite effect in the Anglophone world where an English version ("Just a Dream") failed as a follow-up, only scraping into the low reaches of the UK charts (No. 70).

[17] The drift from the song's original meaning is best illustrated by the fact that the song's title "Leuchtturm" doesn't even appear in the new lyrics and the revised theme of unquestioning devotion led to it being adopted as a football chant by fans of Borussia Dortmund.

[18] The changes worked: "Leuchtturm (2002)", as it was officially titled, returned to the Top 10 of the German charts 19 years after its first appearance, this time peaking at No. 7.

In 2002 the single "Leuchtturm" was released with the additional title "Ich häng immer noch an dir" and with a remix by DJ Tomekk.

LP label of the "Nena" album