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Legendary you say? Relatively unknown outside of Germany (and other German speaking countries) you say?
Let me introduce you to Dschinghis Khan by Dschingis Khan
(99 Luftballons, which was mentioned here before, is arguably the bigger hit that really everyone knows. But I couldn't resist throwing this out there. It was a huge hit and is still known.)
I've never seen this video but I know Moskau. They look like they're having so much fun lol, and the Tony Iommi lookalike has a real cool hair/moustache combo, and the girl in white is a smokeshow!
Oh, the first one is a legendary classic. Finland has got the "do direct covers of all the German hits from the 70's" - scene well covered:
https://youtu.be/seA8p2tv2S4?feature=shared
Didn't Finland have an entire culture of doing spoofs on old German shit, like TV series? I've seen Die KΓΌhe and I think it's absolutely awesome. (The Dutch also did a good impression in Jiskefet.)
And I remember watching / listening to lots of M. A. Numminen. Not sure if that's just the stuff that found its way back to Germany and me... But nonetheless...
The thing with the tv series might be a thing of the past, though. I'm not sure if anyone still remembers "Der Alte" or "Derrick". It's probably not that funny without the context. And how we watch TV has certainly changed during the last decades.
That also is true for Germany. There's for example a song using Black Sabbaths Paranoid melodies with some German lyrics about the Hound of Baskerville https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnFX0_H-rA
This is without a doubt the best cover version of "Paranoid" I have ever heard.
Dschingis Khan is very well known in the US AFAIK
American here. Never heard of it.