January 2018

WHITESNAKE - Forty years of winding through

11. January 2018

Whitesnake

WHITESNAKE - Forty years of winding through

Two solo albums on the hump ("White Snake, 1977, and "Northwinds", 1978), but no band in the back. Ex-Purple singer David Coverdale wanted to create facts even before the release of his second work and founded David Coverdale's Whitesnake in February 1978, who presented themselves as a band for the first time in Great Britain on the "Northwinds Tour" in March. "It was not a lightning start that I made after leaving Purple in March 1976. With Roger Glover as producer and guitarist Micky Moody I recorded my [first] solo album in the summer of '76.

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Advanced course "Growing up" - Three years after the album "Songs Of Innocence" U2 released the sequel

11. January 2018

U2

Advanced course "Growing up" - Three years after the album "Songs Of Innocence" U2 released the sequel

No other U2 album has been dissected by the press as maliciously as "Songs Of Experience". Some critics may have judged with a greater sense of proportion, but the fourteenth studio work of the Irish superstars will certainly not go down in history as a masterpiece. U2 play it safe with their contemporary stadium sound, but at the same time try to appeal to younger listeners. Bono admits this bluntly. Recently he explained that in times of Spotify you have to work more on the quality of the single song to get it on the radio. The times of clearly defined singles are finally over.

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Musical Outlaw - ERIK COHEN combines Hardrock with German Lyrics

11. January 2018

Erik Cohen

Musical Outlaw - ERIK COHEN combines Hardrock with German Lyrics

Erik Cohen is an artificial figure, as the singer, who listens to the middle-class name Daniel Geiger, emphasizes time and again. "He's definitely a musical outlaw, who also goes through the wall with his head. Like 'Theo against the rest of the world'," he explains in allusion to the 80s film with Marius Müller-Westernhagen. Meanwhile, Geiger knows his way around artificial figures, and for many years he has headed his band Smoke Blow as frontman Jack Letten.

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Dear "All"-present - Master Yoda has influenced the new album of BLACK SPACE RIDERS

11. January 2018

Black Space Riders

Dear "All"-present - Master Yoda has influenced the new album of BLACK SPACE RIDERS

Thematically, this time everything revolves around the eternal battle of good against evil. It burns up around "Amoretum", according to the album title, a Garden of Eden somewhere in space, the last place of its kind. A concept album then? "No, more like a song cycle around an idea," singer and guitarist JE explains. Like "Refugeeum", the title "Amoretum" is also an artificial word that refers to its content; it is composed of "Amore" (love) and "Aboretum" (a protected garden or park).

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