They mocked the police, set fire to the school and sang gloomily about the death of the president. They let the plane take off at parties, wanted to fuck Annemarie, conjured up the delights of kleptomania and the abysses of cocaine: at the end of the 70s, five boys from Hagen discovered the beauty of the 3-minute guitar anthem with snotty, subversive lyrics and soon conquered the charts with it: Extrabreit, the inventors of German pop-punk.
They were much loved by unruly teenagers and reviled by music critics as an NDW fun band, banned by Franz-Josef-Strauß' Bavarian Radio and attacked by the punk avant-garde as rip-off artists. Even in the 80s, Extrabreit were a German band that was as controversial as it was legendary, and in 1982 they were also the most successful, winning two gold records.