Dany Lademacher

“When I do my suicide for you, I hope you’ll miss me too,” Herman Brood sang in “Rock ‘n’ Roll Junkie” – just one of many announcements of his own death Brood worked into his songs. It’s a subject Brood, who jumped off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton 15 years ago, often sang about. In Unknown Brood, a whole range of people look back on the rock and roller’s turbulent life, including fellow musicians, his manager, a former girlfriend, photographer Anton Corbijn, Brood’s wife and their daughter. Video footage shot by Brood himself and never seen before is intercut with a rich collection of archive material, including a humorous clip of Brood barking the Dutch national anthem. His sister Beppie Brood stresses her brother’s split personality: on the one hand the shy, vulnerable man wary of other people, and on the other the one who played Herman Brood – an extravagant, hedonistic junkie and rock and roll star.

The start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Guided by his manager they aim to take over the USA with his music.

3 DVD box with 12 p. booklet containing fragments from the books about Herman Brood by Bart Chabot (in Dutch). DVD 1 & 2 contain the same footage as on this release Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Live At Rockpalast 1978 + 1990. Disc 1: Concert for ‘Rockpalast’ on December 9th, 1978 at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany. Disc 2: Concert for ‘Rockpalast’ on December 11th, 1990 at Live Music Hall, Cologne/Köln, Germany. Disc 3: Extras; footage from newsitems and older documentaries.