Marianne Rosenberg, German Schlager icon:
"Er gehört zu mir" was a finalist in the competition to select an Eurovision Song Contest entry for Germany in 1975 but was only placed tenth.
Nevertheless the song is "deutscher Schlager" royal class and almost every German can sing along until today, the audience often takes over the "na, na, na" part.
Rosenberg's attempts to sing in Eurovision took a turn in 1976 when she was shortlisted to represent Luxembourg with the song "Tout peut arriver au cinema". Although it didn't win, it went on to be a German hit under the title "Lieder der Nacht".
From the eighties on she refused to sing her old hits for many years and changed her image and music style completely. Unintended she became an icon of the LGBTQ community.
The public demanded for years and years of her to sing her old hits and in 2005 she gave up her resistance and performed her old songs on tour in a new arrangement. She made a considerable comeback in the mainstream. She performed at "Wetten dass?", Germanys show business flagg ship back than, to launch the tour. She sang a medley of her hits Marleen (1977) and her attempts to perform at ESC "Lieder der Nacht" and "Er gehört zu mir". Of course she couldn't resist to sing it with a little wink of an eye. A little bit resistance must be allowed.
For all German speaking friends look at this documentary about this extraordinary personality with an unexpected background: