Biography
Every respected fan of vintage music knows the song Forever Young Alphaville. This German group playing in the genre of Sinti-Pop, presented the world another eternal hit Big in Japan. Despite the fact that now Alphaville's discography has a dozen albums, and the concert activity continues, there were no more songs comparable to popularity with these "nonploves".The history of creation and composition
The story of the creation of Alphaville began with the acquaintance of Vocalist Mariana Gold and the Bernhard Lloyd keyboard player on the Nelson Community project, which was conceived as an union of creative youth. The musicians began to play together in 1982, then another keyboard player Frank Mertens joined the composition.
Artists started under the name Forever Young. In 1983, they recorded the demo of the same name and understood how the group with a song in honor of himself looks boring. The new name was Alphaville - in honor of the thiller-anti-nightopy of 1965.
Music
In 1984, Alphaville recorded the debut single Big In Japan. The text was born from under the Gold pen back in 1979, under the impression of the presentation of the British Artist of Holly Johnson's eponymous. The name of the song is a reference to the time when European groups could not break through the musical Olympus in their native countries, but they walked with a bang in Asia, for example, in Japan.Both songs that were destined to become hits entered the debut album Alphaville Forever Young (1984). Big In Japan headed the charts in Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, Venezuela and the United States, entered the top 5 in Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Ireland and South Africa. This is the only single Alphaville, who fell in love with the UK.
Sounds Like A Melody and Forever Young also had success in Europe. The last song did not impress the American charts. Musical critics saw the reason in the phrase Hoping for The Best But Expecting the Worst; Are you Going to Drop The Bomb or Not? ("I hope for the best, but I expect the worst; Are you going to reset a bomb or not?"). She was associated with a cold war and threats of activation of a nuclear bomb.
The highest rate that Forever Young's song reached in the USA was the 65th place in the Billboard Hot 100.
Releases of subsequent albums passed without much noise. They achieved success in Europe, but never in the United States and the United Kingdom, two musical capitals of the world. From the 1980s to 2000s, the world heard 4 alphaville records: Afternoons in Utopia (1986), The Breathtaking Blue (1989), Prostportute (1994), Salvation (1997).
They went out during this period and special editions that combined hot favorite hits, their remixes, clips, "live" performances, biographies of Alphaville participants, exclusive photos and more. Bright examples - DreamScapes (1999) and Forever POP (2001).
November 19, 2010, for the first time in 13 years, Alphaville released Catching Rays on Giant Studio Album. Musicians spun it mainly in native Germany.
One of the latest albums of the group is Strange Attractor (2017). His release was accompanied by a clip on the song Heartbreak City and a short tour of the United States.
Alphaville now
March 15, 2019 in honor of the 35th anniversary of the album Forever Young Alphaville presented his deluxe publication. It consists of 2 disks. At the first - the original version of the single, which sounded on the radio in 1984, and 16 demo-recordings, on the second - a 60-minute documentary about the group and Promovideo.
There is an even luxurious Forever Young version recorded on a vinyl record. In addition - a 24-page booklet with rare, previously unpublished photos of Alphaville and squeezes from diary records.
In honor of the 35th anniversary of Forever Young Alphaville ride the world with concerts. By the end of 2019, they visited Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ireland, Sweden, Spain and Norway.
In 2004, during the clutch before the release of the 6th album Catching Rays on Giant, Alphaville significantly changed the composition. From the "old mans" in the group only Marian Gold was left. Now the music is helping to do guitarist David Guds, Krasten Broker, Bass Gitarist Alexander Merl and Drummer Jacob Kirsche.
Discography
- 1984 - FOREVER YOUNG
- 1986 - Afternoons in Utopia
- 1989 - THE BREATHTAKING BLUE
- 1944 - Prostitute.
- 1997 - Salvation
- 2010 - Catching Rays ON GIANT
- 2017 - Strange Attractor
Clips
- 1984 - Big In Japan
- 1984 - FOREVER YOUNG
- 1984 - Sounds Like a Melody
- 1985 - A VICTORY OF LOVE
- 1986 - Dance With Me
- 1989 - Romeos.
- 1989 - Heaven or Hell
- 1989 - Mysteries of Love