A good 40 years after the release of NENA’s self-titled debut, the band and BMG are celebrating the album with a special anniversary edition, NENA – Remastered and Selected Works.

NENA was released in 1983 and quickly conquered the German charts with hit singles such as ‘99 Luftballons’, ‘Nur Geträumt’ and ‘Leuchtturm’. In 1984, the legendary ‘99 Luftballons’ became a global hit, and remains the highest-charting German-language hit in the US charts to this day, cementing the band’s place in international music history.

Singer and frontwoman Nena said: "Our guitarist Carlo Karges had the vision for the song when we were with the band at a Rolling Stones concert in Berlin in 1982. At the end of the show, the Stones released balloons that the wind carried towards the Wall and the GDR. Looking at this powerful image, Carlo asked himself what could happen if someone misunderstood it. He wrote the text that same night and showed it to me in the rehearsal room the next day. Just reading the lines sent shivers down my spine and I immediately wanted to sing it. From then on it was unstoppable... And as long as I'm on stage, there won't be a Nena concert without the balloons."

For the anniversary edition, all the original tracks of the album have been lovingly remastered from the original tapes to ensure excellent sound quality and to capture the spirit of that time. The remastered album is complemented by a second longplayer featuring unreleased material. In addition to ‘AMOUR CANDIDE’, a French version of the song ‘Nur Geträumt’, fans can look forward to spectacularly energetic and previously unheard live tracks from NENA’s 1984 concerts, as well as rare B-sides.