Rio Reiser

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Rio Reiser (9 January 1950 – 20 August 1996), was a German rock musician and singer of rock group Ton Steine Scherben.

He was born Ralph Christian Möbius in Berlin and died at the age of 46 in Fresenhagen, Germany.

Rio Reiser supported squatting in the early 1970s and later the green political party Die Grünen. After German reunification, he joined the Party of Democratic Socialism.

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King of Germany is a song by Rio Reiser , which appeared in November 1986 on his solo debut album, Rio I , and was singled out as a single .

Rio Reiser himself is often named after this song as "king of Germany".

Originally, the song already originated in 1975 (with other stanza lyrics) for Reiser's band Ton Steine ​​Scherben and was singled out in 1976 at some performances of the band. For the compilation Germany - the best of Rio Reiser , the song was re-recorded in 1994 with a version updated by Reiser as version # 94 and once again released as a single.

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