Unknown Brood
Synopsis
âWhen I do my suicide for you, I hope youâll miss me too,â Herman Brood sang in âRock ânâ Roll Junkieâ â just one of many announcements of his own death Brood worked into his songs. Itâs a subject Brood, who jumped off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton 15 years ago, often sang about. In Unknown Brood, a whole range of people look back on the rock and rollerâs turbulent life, including fellow musicians, his manager, a former girlfriend, photographer Anton Corbijn, Broodâs wife and their daughter. Video footage shot by Brood himself and never seen before is intercut with a rich collection of archive material, including a humorous clip of Brood barking the Dutch national anthem. His sister Beppie Brood stresses her brotherâs split personality: on the one hand the shy, vulnerable man wary of other people, and on the other the one who played Herman Brood â an extravagant, hedonistic junkie and rock and roll star.
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