Dieter Meier

Along with his dark vocal croon, distinctive moustache, and mixed-media skills like a filmmaker and conceptual artist, Yello co-founder Dieter Meier cuts a striking number in the wonderful world of pop. Like a Yello’s frontman and video movie director, Meier helped provide the Swiss-based digital outfit substantial acclaim within the 1980s, broadening their charm both critically and commercially. Created in Zurich, Switzerland in 1945, Meier was raised in a rich family members, and by the ’70s he was producing his method as an experimental filmmaker. Although thinking about music since his youngsters, by his thirties, Meier experienced already screened movies at numerous exhibitions including Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with Kunsthaus Zurich in 1976. Like a musician, Meier made an appearance using the group New Colour before developing Yello with digital musicians Boris Empty and Carlos Peron in 1979. Following the release from the trio’s debut solitary, 1979’s “I.T. Splash,” Yello authorized to the Occupants’ Ralph Information, and released their debut recording, 1980’s Solid Pleasure, which presented the dance strike “Bostitch.” Yello’s following recording, 1981’s Claro Que Si, designated Meier’s debut because the group’s music video movie director along with his clip for the solitary “Pinball Cha Cha.” A forward thinking, eye-popping mixture of stop-motion computer animation and live actions, the video garnered positive essential interest, and was actually contained in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Music Video Exhibition in 1985. Many more albums adopted including 1983’s You Gotta State Yes to some other Excess, and Peron remaining the music group. With each recording, Meier gained even more interest for his music video clips, and videos for songs such as for example “I REALLY LIKE You,” “Shed and Found out,” “Desire,” and “Vicious Video games” received weighty rotation on MTV. Nevertheless, it had been Yello’s music “OK LAST ONE,” an recording monitor off 1985’s Stella, that nabbed probably the most interest after it had been featured within the 1986 strike John Hughes humor film Ferris Bueller’s Time Off. The melody, constructed around Meier’s intensely manipulated vocal refrain, became a ethnic touchstone and was utilized to similar impact in other movies including 1987’s Top secret of My Achievement, 1989’s She’s Uncontrollable, and others for many years to come. Beyond Yello, Meier more and more pursued projects from music, including directing the video for Alphaville’s 1984 one “Big in Japan” and performing in such movies as Leo Sonnyboy (1989), Hors Saison (1992), and Country wide Lampoon’s Pledge This! (2006). In 2008, he released the Dvd movie Hermes Baby, a assortment of essays, pictures and music. The next year, he matched once more with Empty for Yello’s 12th studio room record, Touch Yello, which highlighted guest performances from trumpeter Right up until Brönner, vocalist/songwriter Heidi Content, and recorder participant Dorothee Oberlinger. In 2014, Meier released Away from Chaos, his first-ever full-length record of solo materials.