Nonsense by the notes with Bayern stars. There is no greater cringe in FC Bayern's — indeed the Bundesliga's — history than when Munich's stars reach for the microphone! We do not, of course, know how many Maß of beer after a Bayern victory are required to sing along to these lowlights from the world of German Schlager and pop culture without truly bad conscience...
The Kaiser started it. Franz Beckenbauer recorded the saccharine song "Gute Freunde" (Good Friends) in 1966. To this day, Beckenbauer has dismissed the record — which reached only number 31 in Germany and later continued to torment listeners as the theme song of the ARD TV lottery — as a "youthful sin."
But it is still played at the Allianz Arena. The lyrics and music came from Kurt Hertha and Rolf Arland, who normally worked for hit-guaranteeing acts like Al Martino or Alice & Ellen Kessler. With Franz, even this dynamic duo was powerless — or perhaps they simply had a bad day with their listless rhyming ("Laß doch die andern reden, was kann denn schon geschehn, wir wollen heut und morgen nicht auseinander gehen"). The B-side of the Polydor single, incidentally, was called "Du allein" — just in case it ever comes up on a quiz show...
The song remained in demand years later, too. "Die Amigos," "Marianne & Michael" and "Die jungen Zillertaler" — traditionally always right on the cutting edge of good taste — covered "Gute Freunde."