The 1981 German synthpop cult hit “Fred vom Jupiter” was recorded by a teenage boy named Andreas Dorau along with a chorus comprised of some of his female school chums. It is an unbelievably catchy tune about Kosmonaut Fred, who comes from Jupiter, obviously, and is beloved by all the Earth girls.

Enterprising young Andreas put out “Fred vom Jupiter” as Die Doraus und die Marinas on his own record label and it was eventually picked up for release in the UK by Mute’s Daniel Miller, who released it between records by Depeche Mode and Yaz (“Fred vom Jupiter” is not all that dissimilar from what Miller was trying to do with his pre-Gorillaz/post-Archies group Silicon Teens).

There are several amusing PR shots, like the one above, of young Andreas dressed in a tuxedo ala James Bond surrounded by a bevy of pre-teen girls with guns. Dorau, who is still active in music as Andreas Johnson, clearly knew how to work the popstar thing to his advantage with the ladies, even at a tender age.