Restless & Wild

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Release Date: 1983

Label: Heavy Metal Worldwide

The intro to the track "Fast as a Shark" is a snippet from a crackly old children's recording of a traditional German tune titled Ein Heller Und Ein Batzen (Halli Hallo) (A Farthing and a Penny). The band thought it would make a humorous contrast with their heavy metal sound, and the fact that a young Dieter Dierks (in whose studio the album was recorded) was singing on the recording made it even more of an inside joke.

The band soon found themselves in an unintended controversy, however: even though the song dated from 1830, it was a popular marching song during the Nazi era and still held that connotation for many listeners, a fact the band was unaware of at the time. "So out of a funny little idea we created somewhat of a monster," Wolf Hoffmann recalls.

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