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Having fled over the Wall in 1976, Nina Hagen discovered the brave new world of punk music. Hagen, 35, learned her craft by singing along to tapes of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important...
SOCIAL DISTORTION: SOCIAL DISTORTION (Epic). Had it with those dance divas? Try a dose of this. Real chainsaw-massacre modernist punk, laid on heavy but built for speed. Let It Be Me is guaranteed to produce feedback in your gold fillings...
...Belfast to flaunt their defiance. Like almost all Catholic ghetto kids, he's been in and out of trouble with the law since he was a child, but he has been extra careful since his last arrest two years ago. He wears his brown hair short, but not punk short, and he has no tattoos or earrings. He wears a blue Windbreaker and jeans. He is earnest, painstakingly sincere and a walking encyclopedia of the I.R.A. party line -- he has carefully shed any trace of the sly, irreverent wit common to his neighbors. John has been trained in firearms, explosives...
Meanwhile, the accordion lobby's triumph threatens to encourage further erosion of the musical landscape. They have already infiltrated a punk band dubbed Polkacide and the backup bands of Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. Next the city fathers of Detroit; Skokie, Ill.; and St. Paul will succumb and proclaim the accordion their official designated hitter. These cities are unaware that it is the convergence of hundreds of accordion players pumping out The Beer Barrel Polka in unison that depletes the ozone layer. The Red Cross is looking into this...
...from the director's pet sources -- kitsch movies of the '50s, tabloid headlines of the '70s and '80s -- who could have met nowhere in the world but on a John Waters set. Surfside heartthrob Troy Donahue. Media minx Joey Heatherton. Ever fashionable Polly Bergen. Andy Warhol icon Joe Dallesandro. Punk pioneer Iggy Pop. Legendary bad actress Susan Tyrrell. Norman Mailer's son Stephen. As a smarmily sadistic guard, Willem Dafoe. The parents of slutty Wanda (Traci Lords) are assayed by Ozzie and Harriet's own David Nelson and, in her movie debut, Patricia Hearst. The mind wanders: Is this...