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10Oct2009

Die Moritat von Mackie Messer

DateSaturday, October 10, 2009 at 08:18PM

Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht.

In the original version, McHeath was far more than a murderer, but also an arsonist and a rapist. There was a time when this constituted pop music in Germany. Fifty years later, Falco.

Lotta Lenya went on to play Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love.

 

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