Udo Lindenberg

Udo Lindenberg is among the most influential German rock and roll singers ever. Developing a exclusive style combining straight-ahead rock and roll with periodic jazzy or symphonic affects and witty lyrics, he was the first ever to display that rock and roll music with German lyrics was suitable and could actually be internationally effective. Starting off in the very beginning of the ’60s in a number of jazz rings, he found Hamburg in 1968, where he fulfilled Inga Rumpf, another important German rock and roll singer, and lastly founded his first music group, Free Orbit. Following a brief jazz stint like a drummer in Klaus Doldinger’s music group Passport, and an English-language debut recording, he started composing German lyrics and released his German debut, Daumen im Blowing wind (1972). His following recording, Alles Klar auf der Andrea Doria (1973), offered his discovery in Germany and Lindenberg became probably the most fascinating finding in German rock and roll. Through the entire ’70s, he released a string of similarly effective albums (especially Votan Wahnwitz [1975], Panische Nächte [1977], and Dröhnland Sinfonie [1978]), which strongly established him among the best German rock and roll icons. By the end from the ’70s, he previously arrived at a fresh stage in his profession. He found out Ulla Meinecke, who was simply to become probably one of the most effective feminine songwriters in Germany, he released his first reserve, Hinter All den Postern, and he jammed with Eric Burdon, who made an appearance being a visitor star within the tour for Dröhnland Sinfonie. In 1980, he aimed and starred in his initial film, Panische Zeiten, a humor about a rock and roll singer who’s kidnapped by way of a federal government agent. After another reserve (Rock and roll und Rebellion: Ein Panisches Panorama, 1981), he attempted hard to finally get yourself a tour through East Germany (where he appreciated cult position). Aside from one concert in 1983 in East Berlin, a tour planned for 1984 was ultimately canceled with the East German ethnic apparatchiks, who most likely feared his sardonic wit. The middle-’80s noticed him getting ultimately more and more involved with political problems: he interviewed German ex-chancellor Willy Brandt, had taken part within the Live Help concerts, toured the U.S.S.R., and began a correspondence with East German party employer Erich Honecker. In 1987, Lindenberg sent him a rocker natural leather jacket as something special, a now-legendary symbolical gesture. After launching his autobiography, Un Panico, in 1989, he was honored the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the best award distributed by the German authorities. Within the ’90s, he dove into mainstream pop music and his track material became even more commercial. Additional German rings and performers honored him at his 25th tour wedding anniversary by performing their very own variations of his tunes. From 1996 on, Lindenberg began a second profession like a painter, with considerable exhibitions. Pursuing another string of produces in the first 2000s, a few of which skipped the very best 40, Lindenberg released Stark Wie Zwei in 2008, his first German number 1 record. In 2011, he performed at Resort Atlantic, Hamburg, inside a stripped-down acoustic display of materials that extended across his four years of music. The overall performance was documented for MTV: Unplugged and Lindenberg became a member of a select set of German functions to have already been invited to execute for the series; the discharge, MTV Unplugged: Live aus dem Resort Atlantic, spent eight weeks at number 1 in Germany in later 2011. The next season, Lindenberg staged a large-scale concert tour. Among the schedules was documented in the 2013 audio/video discharge Ich Mach Mein Ding: Die Present. Another tour of German stadiums was announced for 2014. When Lindenberg came back to the studio room to record Stärker als expire Zeit, he brought along music from a number of close friends and influences over time, including Simon Triebel from Juli, Sera Finale from Keule, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Justin Balk, and Tobias Kuhn, among numerous others. The record premiered in Apr 2016, and spent three weeks near the top of the German graphs; in addition, it reached the very best Ten in Austria and Switzerland.