Just a dream

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Just a dream
Nena
publication May 1982
length 3:37
Genre (s) Neue Deutsche Welle
Author (s) Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen , Nena , Rolf Brendel
album Nena

Just a dream is a song by the band Nena from 1982. The song is attributed to the Neue Deutsche Welle .

history

The music comes from Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen , the lyrics were written by Rolf Brendel and Nena .

The song comes from the album Nena and was released as a single in May 1982 . The band manager Jim Rakete had the song recorded in the Berlin Spliff studios. The record only got a lot of attention after Nena's TV appearance in the music store , was re-released with a different cover and sold around 40,000 times ad hoc. The single reached number two in the German single charts and marked the commercial breakthrough for Nena. The singer released other versions of the song throughout her career.

The single won the band's first gold record in September 1982 .

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 2 (32 weeks) 32
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 9 (4½ (months)  weeks) (months)
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 5 (5 weeks) 5
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) 70 (4 weeks) 4th

Cover version

Blümchen performed a Happy Hardcore version in 1997 , just dreaming , reaching the top 10 of the German single charts. Nena described the cover version on a talk show with Heike Makatsch as "cute".

In 2001 a cover version of the group SPN-X feat. Tim Sander & Micha Krabbe dreamed of Nur dream, which reached number 43 in the German single charts.

In March 2003 Special D. also covered the song as a hands-up version under the name Come with Me .

A cover version of Die Ärzte was first published in 2018 in the Seitenhirsch show .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. GEMA entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 19, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / online.gema.de  
  2. Christian Reder: Reinhold Heil , 2008, interview on DM - deutsche-mugge.de.
  3. http://www.musik-charts.net/biografie_nena.html
  4. Only dreamed of chart placement in Germany. GfK Entertainment , accessed on September 15, 2018 .
  5. Nena - Only dreamed of chart placement Austria. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  6. Nena - Just dreamed of chart placement in Switzerland. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  7. Nena - Just Dreamed Charthistory United Kingdom. Official Charts Company , accessed September 15, 2019 .
  8. Excerpt from the Heike Makatsch Show on April 28, 1997