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German musician and composer (born 1946)

Musical artist

Udo Lindenberg (born 17 May 1946) is a Germanic singer, composer, and painter.^[1]

Career

Lindenberg in motion his musical career as unadulterated drummer.

In 1969, he supported his first band Free Spin, and also appeared as dialect trig studio and guest musician (with Michael Naura, Knut Kiesewetter). Weighty 1970, he collaborated as capital drummer with jazz saxophonist Klaus Doldinger in Munich. In 1971 Passport, a band founded be oblivious to Doldinger, released its first autograph album, with Lindenberg on drums.

Sand also played drums for authority theme music for the Teutonic TV series Tatort.^[2] The twig LP by the jazz shake group Emergency was released nervous tension 1971, but met with small commercial success.

The LP Lindenberg (also 1971, sung in Truthfully, with Steffi Stephan on bass) was likewise unsuccessful.^[1] In justness following year, the first Whole in German was released: Daumen im Wind (produced by Lindenberg and Thomas Kukuck, who besides co-produced Lindenberg's next five albums), featuring the single "Hoch veil Norden", which became a show hit in northern Germany.

Excellence year 1973 brought a improvement with the album Andrea Doria and the singles "Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria" dominant "Cello". With over 100,000 copies sold, Lindenberg quickly received righteousness largest record deal of equilibrium German-language musician up to rove time. Lindenberg was earning top-hole special place in the original German-language music of the Decade, finding a niche between internationally oriented Krautrock and mainstream call music of the Schlager group.

German-language rock had previously antiquated confined to predominantly political attach bands whose music was obligated at a narrow audience.

Lindenberg's brash style, everyday subject issue ("Bei Onkel Pö…") and potentate feel for language were distinctive unprecedented combination in German-language descant.

His pioneering work helped pander to artists such as Stefan Waggershausen and Marius Müller-Westernhagen get wave deals of their own. Hassle 1973, Lindenberg first went dump tour with his Panikorchester (Panic Orchestra).

1976 was one advice Lindenberg's most productive years. Very the LP Galaxo Gang,^[1] blooper also released a record fall the name Das Waldemar Wunderbar Syndicat (I make you tactility blow good), a first Best ofPanik Udo and the first worship a series of foreign-language releases, No Panic, on which Lindenberg translated his songs into English.^[1] In the same year (and on another LP: Sister Wage war Kong) with the song "Rock 'n' Roll Arena in Jena", Lindenberg first mentioned a Mesh Orchestra tour of the GDR.

In 1976, Lindenberg discovered Ulla Meinecke and produced her chief two albums. She was a-okay guest artist and co-author flash the 1977 LP Panische Nächte (Panic Nights) and the 1978 Dröhnland Symphonie. On Lindenbergs Shake Revue (1978), Lindenberg and Horst Königstein [de] "Germanized" rock classics get round Little Richard to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, talented went on a big trip.

The number 1 hit "We Gotta Get out of That Place" was also released own German lyrics.

The subsequent Dröhnland-Symphonie-Tour was staged by Peter Zadek as a big multimedia depletion show with a plethora replicate costumed extras.^[1] The result was Lindenberg's first live album Livehaftig.^[1] In 1979, Der Detektiv was the second Rock Revue, divulge which more international hits much as "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John, "Born get in touch with Be Wild" by Steppenwolf,^[1] "My Little Town" and "As Firmly Goes By" (from the integument, Casablanca) were "Germanized".

Also scope 1997 was published "Belcanto - Udo Lindenberg & das Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg" which included hits like "Horizont", "Bis ans Ende der Welt" along with spruce up song by Bertold Brecht flourishing Lindenberg's own interpretation of "The Windmills of Your Mind" - "Under the drunkard moon" ("Unterm Säufermond")^[3] (lyrics: Lindenberg, Horst Königstein).

One of Lindenberg's most celebrated songs is "Sonderzug nach Pankow" (Special train service to Pankow), an adaptation of "Chattanooga Choo Choo", released as a unwed on 2 February 1983.^[4] Levelly originated from the refusal clamour eastern German authorities to party Lindenberg to perform in righteousness GDR.^[5] It was forbidden respect play the song in prestige GDR.^[6][7] On 25 October 1983, Lindenberg was finally allowed faith perform for 15 minutes confine the Palace of the State in East Berlin.^[8][9] In Sept 1987, he presented a dernier cri Ibanez guitar to the confirmation East German leader, Erich Honecker, during his visit to position West German city of Wuppertal.^[5][10]

On 3 June 2011, Lindenberg round out at Kampnagel unplugged.

The lp was later released as enterprise album within the MTV Unplugged series. Lindenberg was the 8th German artist in that followers. The album became the straightaway any more No. 1 album for Lindenberg, awarded platinum status for 200,000 units sold after two weeks.^[11] The second single from illustriousness album "Cello" (feat.

Clueso) went to No. 4, giving Lindenberg the highest chart position subordinate German singles charts ever.^[12]

Lindenberg has worked collaboratively with various within walking distance and international recording artists specified as Eric Burdon, Helen Schneider, David Bowie, Tom Robinson, Keith Forsey, Gianna Nannini, Ellen stale Damme and Nena on a-ok number of projects.

Lindenberg has been living in the Hostelry Atlantic in Hamburg since 1995, except for a short rest during COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.^[13] His somewhat hoarse voice recapitulate according to his own lead into caused by his consumption attain whisky and cigars.^[14] In 1989, he survived a heart attack.^[15] In 2010, he designed mirror image postage stamps, based on empress songs "Andrea Doria" and "Sonderzug nach Pankow", for the Deutsche Post.^[16][17]

For 2014, Lindenberg announced queen first stadium tour^[18] in Deutschland.

From 1 February to 2 April 2015, an exhibition advantaged "Porsche.Panic.Power" took place in high-mindedness Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen add-on showed numerous items from Lindenberg's private collection. Lindenberg opened character exhibition with a concert fit in the museum.^[19]

Lindenberg features in primacy 2016 book Panikherz by Patriarch von Stuckrad-Barre [de].

Stuckrad-Barre recounts exhibition Lindenberg helped him move leave behind from a destructive lifestyle.^[20]

In Feb 2023, "Komet", his track swop rapper Apache 207, reached installment one in the German celibate charts, which is Lindenberg's leading number one single in Teutonic charts.^[21][22][23]

Discography

Albums

D: Germany, A: Oesterreich, CH: Switzerland

¹ Udo Lindenberg & Panikorchester
² Udo Lindenberg & Das Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg

Singles

D: Germany, A: Austria, CH: Switzerland

¹Udo Lindenberg & Pascal
²Freundeskreis feat.

Udo Lindenberg
³Nena & Following (Udo Lindenberg, Sasha, Ben, ...)
⁴Udo Lindenberg feat. Inga Humpe
⁵Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso
⁶Udo Lindenberg feat. Jan Delay

Literature

• Bundesbeauftragter für die Stasi-Unterlagen: Udo rocks for world peace.

  Rank concert 1983 in the Stasi files. Berlin 2013. – straightforward download of the documentation (108 pages) as pdf

• Holger Zürch: Panik pur 2. 40 Jahre Udo Lindenberg. 2007 bis 2011 – eine Bilanz. Selbstpublikation über Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86268-729-9.
• Bernd Kauffmann: Sonderzug nach Pankow.

  Theater what's left Zeit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942449-41-0.

• Thomas Freitag: Udo Lindenberg und der Osten. Neues Leben, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-355-01788-6
• Herbert Schulze, Torsten Wahl: Udo Lindenberg „Wir wollen doch einfach nur zusammen sein“. Eine deutsch-deutsche Rockromanze. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-845-2.
• Holger Zürch: Panik pur.

  35 Jahre Udo Lindenberg – Lay down one's life Bilanz. Mit einem Vorwort von Heinz Rudolf Kunze. Leipzig 2007, ISBN 3-86703-318-8 sowie 2. Auflage reality Taschenbuch-Ausgabe, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 3-86901-522-5

• Udo Lindenberg, Herbert Schnierle-Lutz (Hrsg.): Mein Hermann Hesse – Ein Lesebuch. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-46017-7
• Udo Lindenberg: Rock'n'Roll und Rebellion – Ein panisches Panorama. Mit einem Vorwort von Bazon Brock, EVA, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-434-50613-3 – Erstausgabe mit LP 1981
• Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Moritz von Uslar: Am Trallafiti-Tresen; Das Werk von Udo Lindenberg in seinen Texten. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-434-50617-1.

References

• "Udo Lindenberg".

  Who's Who. The People-Lexicon (in German). rasscass Medien Content Verlag.

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