Carlo Karges

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Carlo Karges

g, 1951-2002 DE, Hamburg
Musician / Songwriter of Rock and Electronic

Carlo Karges (31 July 1951 in Hamburg – 30 January 2002 in Hamburg) was a German musician who became a guitarist and songwriter for the rock band, Nena. He wrote the lyrics of Nena's most famous song, "99 Luftballons", released in 1984. He was attending a 1982 Rolling Stones concert at the Waldbühne (the "Forest Theatre") in West Berlin, when they released a large mass of helium balloons into the air. He wondered how East German or Soviet forces might react if the balloons crossed the Berlin Wall, and thus he conceived the idea for the song about a major war resulting from misidentification of a mass of balloons.

Instruments

Guitar
Percussion
Keyboards

Genres

Rock
Electronic
Pop
Alternative

Plays With

Bleibtreu Revue

Blitz

Desperado

Extrabreit

Nena

Novalis

Ramblers

Tomorrow's Gift

Goo Goo Muck

Band Members

External Links

Wikipedia

MusicBrainz

Discogs

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