Skandal im Sperrbezirk - Spider Murphy Gang (1981) English

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Skandal im Sperrbezirk (1981) by the German rock band Spider Murphy Gang was released as a single from their album Dolce Vita. The song became the band's first and only number-one song, selling about 750,000 copies.

Skandal im Sperrbezirk - was written in the context of the redesign of the Sperrbezirksverordnung
(restricted area ordinance) in Munich. When the city hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics, the Verordnung was tightened.] The Sperrbezirksverordnung was tightened once again in 1980 after the CSU won a majority in the Munich local government in 1978. Under Peter Gauweiler, who had been Kreisverwaltungsreferent (a district management official) in Munich, the Sperrverordnung was monitored more strictly and prostitutes were moved to the outskirts of Munich. Gauweiler proceeded against sex clubs, peep shows, and bars with a dubious reputation. Gauweiler's goal was to ban "hot sex" in Munich.

As a result, prostitution became illegal at almost every place in Munich, including in apartments or hotels. The red-light districts relocated to the outskirts of Munich. These neighborhoods are still present today, for example at a parking lot at the Bundesstraße 13 near the Autobahnanschlussstelle Neuherberg of the A9, which is still used for street prostitution. The parking place is located on the outskirts of Munich but belongs to the community of Oberschleißheim. The line in the chorus Und draußen vor der großen Stadt stehn die Nutten sich die Füße platt is a reference to those street prostitution areas which have been formed due to the Sperrbezirksverordnung.

The song's lyrics are written about a fictional prostitute in Munich named "Rosi" who is known for stealing clients from other prostitutes from the Sperrbezirk, a certain region within a city where prostitution is illegal. Rosi was the name of a friend of Sigl. Another inspiration for "Skandal im Sperrbezirk" was the Schlager song Skandal um Rosi, which was released in 1970 by Erik Silvester.

Due to use of the word Nutte (German for "whore"), the song was boycotted by radio stations in Bavaria. Outside of Bavaria, the song was aired on radio stations, and the song ranked at no. 1 in the German single charts. The song was never played at the ZDF-Hitparade. According to Sigl, the show's moderator Dieter Thomas Heck was against playing that song on television for being "too hot".

The phone number "32 16 8" which is used in the lyrics of the song was said to be an existing number and was said to belong to an older woman who received several dubious calls shortly after the release of the song. In an interview, Sigl stated that the number became the most famous phone number in Germany. The musicians checked if the number existed in Munich, which it did not, but was an active number several times outside of the city. Some teens used the phone numbers for prank calls. The musicians paid for several phone number changes and have sent bouquets to those who were affected. In 2006, the phone number block 089/32168000 to 32168999 had been assigned to Telefonica.