Soundtrack Cha Cha

Brood's outspoken statements in the press about sex and drug use brought him into the Netherlands public arena even more than his music. He was romantically involved with the German singer Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the 1978 film Cha Cha. He is reputed to be the subject of her song "Herrmann Hiess Er" (English title "Herrmann is High") on the Unbehagen album, 1979, about a drug addict. Brood relished the media attention and became the most famous hard drug user in the Netherlands. "It is usual that an artist uses drugs, but tells everybody he doesn't. I admit that it scared me that my popularity could make people start using drugs", he once said in an interview.