Before a Bayern record could go "gold," the Belgian Jean-Marie Pfaff first had to arrive from SK Beveren in Munich in 1982. Musically, the goalkeeper didn't necessarily cut a better figure than Franz and Gerd Müller before him. But: he marketed the cringe-disc "Jetzt bin ich ein Bayer" (Now I'm a Bavarian) simply more professionally. Not only that.\n\nHe even donated the Gold Record to Pope John Paul II during an audience.
The extent to which the Pope came to terms with the lyric "Ich trinke Bier und esse Leberkäs mit Eier" (I drink beer and eat Leberkäs with eggs) is not recorded.