NunSexMonkRock

NunSexMonkRock is the debut solo (and third overall) studio album by German singer Nina Hagen. It was released on June 12, 1982, by CBS Records. NunSexMonkRock marked Hagen's first release since her departure from the Nina Hagen Band, and was also her first album with all songs performed in English. Background and recording In 1979, after working on the movie Cha Cha with Herman Brood and Lene Lovich, Hagen met the Dutch guitarist Ferdinand "Ferdi" Karmelk, with whom she later had a daughter Cosma Shiva. While pregnant, Hagen started working with Karmelk on new songs in English after her departure from the Nina Hagen Band, her German ensemble. Karmelk would be credited as the sole writer of the album's lead single "Smack Jack" and as the co-writer of "Dread Love". After her European tour was cancelled in 1980, Hagen moved to the United States and signed with CBS, with manager Bennett Glotzer, the former manager of Frank Zappa. She intended to start recording the album that year but plans fell through when Glotzer would posticipate the work on the album due to her pregnancy, a move she would later criticize in interviews. "I would love to [record] when I was pregnant, it would be the holiest record in the whole wide world", she told the magazine Shades in 1982.