I thought the Mad Hatter tea party in the 1972 Marc Bolan/Ringo Starr film "Born To Boogie" was

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one of the craziest music videos I'd ever seen (and filming it was just as much of a madhouse, judging by what producer Tony Visconti wrote about it in his autobiography).

But then I ran across this bit of insanity, the video below, this evening, one of YouTube's recommendations, and it made me think of the Mad Hatter and the Beatles -- and of course that Bolan/Starr film -- but with a very German twist... The 2019 song and video (which has 1.8 million views) upset a lot of Toten Hosen fans who wanted the band just to do punk rock, or at least something like classic rock, but musicians do like to be silly at times.

And both these videos are fun.

German lyrics with English translation:

https://lyricfluent.com/lyrics/die_toten_hosen_feiern_im_regen_english

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1. ringo's best "look" over the years nt

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3. I agree.

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4. BTW, thanks to YouTube's quick video uploads, I know Die Toten Hosen were back

to their old punk rock style earlier today (6/3), at the Rock Am Ring music festival, when they were surprise guests of a slightly-younger-but-still-middle-aged punk rock band, the Donots.

See the video below, with Toten Hosen running onto the stage at about 25:30 and singing their 1988 punk rock hit "Hier Kommt Alex." This was uploaded to YouTube 9 hours ago.

Editing to link to a German news site's article about the festival; this is Google's translation:

https://rp-online.de/kultur/musik/rock-am-ring-2022-die-toten-hosen-ueberraschen-mit-auftritt-bei-eroeffnungskonzert-von-donots_aid-70800001?_x_tr_enc=1

With a goosebumps moment is Germany's largest music festival Rock am Ring Started on Friday: The Ibbenbüren band "Donots" play the classic "Hier kommt Alex" after a grandiose debut at the opening concert as a tribute to the Toten Hosen – and suddenly the Düsseldorf punk rockers themselves are on stage and rock along. Huge cheers erupt, the audience sings along loudly to every line. In addition to the joy of the surprise guests from Düsseldorf, the ring rockers resonate in every line: Finally festival again, finally open-air concerts again, finally rock on the ring again.

Link to the OP that I posted a couple of days ago about that song: https://democraticunderground.com/103476487

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5. I see that video of yesterday's concert is gone. Maybe more will

turn up on YouTube later, or on a news site. As you can see from the news story I quoted, the crowd was thrilled by Die Toten Hosen's surprise appearance.

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6. Apparently a public broadcasting corporation in SW Germany was also blocked

from posting video, like that YouTube user whose video had popped up among YouTube's recommendations yesterday, though you can hear some of the audio towatd the end of their two-minute video.

https://swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/rock-am-ring-donots-tote-hosen-100.html

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7. Since I wanted to post a video showing what fans expected of

Die Toten Hosen -- and the video of yesterday's surprise concert appearance, posted in reply 4, has disappeared and I don't know when I'll find a different source for it -- here's video of the band's Rock Am Ring concert in 2012. Their 1988 hit Hier Kommt Alex is at 1:02:48, and Tage Wie Diese -- their biggest hit, and topping the charts at that time in 2012 (30 years after they started) -- is at 1:11:30. (Complete setlist at https://setlist.fm/setlist/die-toten-hosen/2012/nurburgring-nurburg-germany-1bdfd990.html .