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The debut single Wir sind bereit ( We are ready ) was released in 1982, and was followed by their first album, Opel-Gang, the next year.

In 1988, Die Toten Hosen released the LP Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau ( A little bit of horrorshow-" horrorshow " is Nadsat for " ok ", coming from the Russian word хорошо ( khorosho ( good ))) referring to the phrase in A Clockwork Orange ), which featured the song Hier kommt Alex " ( referring to the movie A Clockwork Orange based on the book by Anthony Burgess ); in 1988, Bernd Schadewald produced a German theatre version of the book, in which the band performed as actors and musicians.

Hier kommt Alex ( Here comes Alex ) was later re-recorded in an unplugged version in 2005 incorporating the opening piano phrase of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.