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Thursday music corner: Dietmar Schönherr (1926-2014) and Vivi Bach (1939-2013) were a husband-and-wife German acting duo with international heritage - he was Austrian and she was Danish - who also released four pop albums from 1967 to 1970. Schönherr, whose acting career spanned 70 years, was most famous for his leading role as Major Cliff Allister McLane in the much-loved but short-lived and pioneering 1966 German sci-fi TV drama Raumpatrouille ('Space Patrol'). Bach also appeared in 48 films between 1958 and 1974.

Molotow-Cocktail-Party appeared on Schönherr and Bach's 1970 album Wünsch Dir Was ('Make a Wish'), and was a novelty record imagining a way-out shindig populated by anarchists, terrorists and fascists, where the price of entry is a bag of explosives. Perhaps inspired by the growth of radical protest movements like West German student radicals in 1968 and the Red Army Faction, the song is too tongue-in-cheek to be considered even remotely offensive. (You can read a translation of the lyrics here, but they're fairly self-explanatory in German). It gained greater exposure in 2005 on the eccentric compilation The In-Kraut (a play on the 1965 Dobie Gray Northern Soul classic, The 'In' Crowd).

Schönherr and Bach also presented an hour-long Wünsch Dir Was variety programme on German TV in 1971, which included a mysterious mix of family competitions (speed-loading holiday gear into Volkswagens), a mock brawl followed by an identification parade game, a lively marimba performance, and a serious women's panel discussion.