Editing Herman Brood (section)

==Musical career==
Herman Brood was born in [[Zwolle]], and started playing the piano at age 12. He founded beat band The Moans in 1964, which would later become Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers. Brood was asked to play with [[Cuby and the Blizzards]], but was removed by management when the record company discovered he used drugs. For a number of years Brood was in jail (for dealing [[LSD]]), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements (with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse).<ref name="biografie"/>

In 1976, Brood started his own group, [[Herman Brood & His Wild Romance]] (and started working with photographer [[Anton Corbijn]]),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Herman Brood & His Wild Romance {{!}} TheAudioDB.com|url=https://www.theaudiodb.com/artist/127198|access-date=2020-08-10|website=www.theaudiodb.com}}</ref> initially with Ferdi Karmelk (guitar), Gerrit Veen (bass), Peter Walrecht (drums), and Ellen Piebes and Ria Ruiters (vocals). They played the club and bar circuit, first in [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]] (the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands). In 1977 the band released their first album, ''[[Street (1977 album)|Street]]''.

The band played all over the Netherlands, playing as many gigs as possible. And Herman's drug habit became public: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a high school in [[Almelo]], the Christelijk Lyceum; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroin or speed (there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a well-known story amongst former students), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rock concert took place at this school for many years.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

[[Image:Herman Brood 2 (Netherlands, Leidschendam).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Murals by Brood on a parking garage in Leidschendam]]
[[Image:Herman Brood 2000 Amsterdam Sander Lamme.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Brood in 2000]]
[[Image:Graf Herman Brood.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Brood's grave at ''Zorgvlied'']]

They are still best known for their second album, ''[[Shpritsz]]''—a play on the German word ''Spritze'' for ''syringe''—from 1978. This album contained Brood anthems like "Dope Sucks," "Rock & Roll Junkie," and their first Dutch hit single, "Saturday Night." The band went through many personnel changes over the years; the best-known formation was Freddy Cavalli (bass), [[Dany Lademacher]] (guitar) (later replaced with David Hollestelle), and Cees 'Ani' Meerman (drums). A frequent contributor was Bertus Borgers (saxophone).<ref name="biografie">[http://www.popinstituut.nl/Encyclopedia/Biography.aspx?id=806&name=Herman+Brood+%26+His+Wild+Romance] {{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Brood's outspoken statements in the press about sex and [[Recreational drug use|drug use]] brought him into the Dutch public arena even more than his music. He was romantically involved with the German singer [[Nina Hagen]], with whom he appeared in the 1979 film ''[[Cha Cha (film)|Cha-Cha]]''. He is reputed to be the subject of her song "Herrmann Hiess Er" (English title "Herrmann Was His Name") from the 1979 ''[[Unbehagen]]'' album,<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Biografie
  | publisher = Nina Hagen Archiv
  | url = https://www.einfach-nina.de/biografie.html
  | access-date = 8 April 2009}}</ref><!--note: deliberately mis-spelled and the song title is NOT a translation, a correct translation would be "Herrmann was his name"--> a song about a drug addict. Brood relished the media attention and became the most famous [[hard and soft drugs|hard drug]] user in the Netherlands. "It is quite common for an artist to use drugs, but not for him to tell everybody. I admit that it scared me that my popularity could make people start using drugs," he once said in an interview.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jole |first=Francisco van |title=Brood: Herinnering aan een fenomeen |publisher=Francisco van Jole @ 2525 |date=11 July 2001 |url=http://www.2525.com/archive/010711.html |access-date=8 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401011209/http://www.2525.com/archive/010711.html |archive-date=1 April 2009}}</ref>

In the summer of 1979, Brood tried to enter the American market, with support from Ariola's US division, which was attempting to expand into rock music. Following on the success of ''Shpritsz'', the band was booked as a support act for [[The Kinks]] and [[The Cars]], playing in auditoriums; "Herman Brood and His Wild Romance Tour Cha Cha '79" headlined in New York's ([[The Bottom Line (venue)|Bottom Line]]) and Los Angeles' ([[Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood)|Roxy]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3|newspaper=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=28 July 1979|title=Ariola Move: Label Plans Extensive Promotion To Launch Debut into Rock Field|first=Cary|last=Darling|page=4}}</ref> A re-recorded version of "Saturday Night" peaked at number 35 in the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]],<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Billboard Hot 100: Saturdaynight |magazine=Billboard |date=22 September 1979 |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/1979-09-22/hot-100 |access-date=8 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924011658/http://www.billboard.com/charts/1979-09-22/hot-100 |archive-date=24 September 2013 }}</ref> but the big break Brood hoped for didn't happen.<ref>Brood never gained a big audience in the United States, but a poster of "Herman Brood and his Wild Romance" can be seen in the [[David Cronenberg]] film ''[[Scanners]]'' (about 53 minutes into the film).</ref> When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.<ref name="biografie"/> ''Go Nutz'', the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie ''Cha-Cha'', which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though ''Go Nutz'' produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the [[Cha Cha (soundtrack)|''Cha Cha'' soundtrack]] attained platinum status.<ref>{{cite web
 |title=Herman Brood, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich – Cha cha 
 |publisher=NVPI 
 |url=http://www.nvpi.nl/nvpi/pagina.asp?pagkey=61112&documentid=1237279&zoekform=60463&formposted=yes 
 |access-date=9 April 2009 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424092450/http://www.nvpi.nl/nvpi/pagina.asp?pagkey=61112&documentid=1237279&zoekform=60463&formposted=yes 
 |archive-date=24 April 2009
}}</ref> The 1980 album ''[[Wait a Minute (album)|Wait a Minute...]]'' was a minor success, but the follow-up albums ''[[Modern Times Revive]]'' (1981) and ''[[Frisz & Sympatisz]]'' (1982) failed to make the Dutch album charts.

Brood continued to record throughout the 1980s and had a few hits—a top-10 single, "Als Je Wint" with [[Henny Vrienten]], and a minor hit with a reggae song, "Tattoo Song," but he spent more and more time on his art work. At the end of the '80s he made a comeback of sorts; ''[[Yada Yada (album)|Yada Yada]]'' (1988), produced by [[George Kooymans]], was well-received, and he toured Germany with a renewed Wild Romance (which saw the return of Dany Lademacher).  In 1990, he won the BV Popprijs, one of the highest Dutch awards for popular music, and recorded ''Freeze'' with [[Clarence Clemons]] of the [[E Street Band]] and [[Tejano music|Tejano]] [[accordion]] player [[Flaco Jiménez]].  A live "best of" album, ''Saturday Night Live'', appeared in 1992. His 50th birthday, in 1996, was celebrated with a show at the [[Paradiso (Amsterdam)|Paradiso]] music and cultural center in Amsterdam, and the album (of duets) was released the same year.<ref name="biografie"/>