Udo Lindenberg: “Stronger than time”: Lindesbergs album around the … – Augsburger Allgemeine

Udo Lindenberg brings on Friday his new album, “Stronger than time” on the market. The obituary of himself, he sings the same himself.

“I sit at the bar, with ‘nem drink and’ ner Cigar because sneaks in the grim reaper makes me stupid from the side “, Udo Lindenberg sings. For his new album although he has ever written his obituary itself, but: “Hey sorry, I can here not gone real.”

“The Loneliest moment,” says Udo Lindenberg, “which often comes at night.” If the Rockstar times on any stage is more. Not on a tens of thousands fans, not on the to of the lobby of the hotel “Atlantic” will regularly for him. In solitary moments of musicians turned in his “panic Central” on the second floor of the luxury hotel in Hamburg’s Alster lake on the TV, lies down and painting. “Being alone is important for so’n convivial party bird like me,” he explains.

 

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On May 17, is Udo Lindenberg 70 years

“To correct time to explore, where you are so traveling on the life trajectory.” His own was eight years ago again steeply upward. Back then he hissed, of by many as alcohol addict and veteran written off as “phoenix from the bottle” again. To the top of the charts Just because he wants now – again, if he, his new album released “Stronger than time” on Friday 29 april – shortly before his 70th birthday.

“Stark wie Zwei”, those disk, with the 2008 he himself catapulted off the bar stool back on stage, was created after the death of his brother Erich. Lindenberg managed that to, let “Valley of the doubt”, as he calls his crisis years behind. he had long gone delivered Really Successful. Now, the first number-one album of his career.

Critics praised, fans loved him (again). Larger failures since then? None. With his “MTV Unplugged” recording he sat one better. And the panic rocker experienced another first time since the debut album from 1971: his first stadium tour. Since the comeback he a prize after the other grants, the 43 had one, as he calls it, “Heart Kasper” with 46 the echo already got for his life’s work, just back an echo.

Udo Lindenberg new album is called “” Stronger than time “

A title like” Stronger than the time “seems only logical. Especially since the former drummer from Gronau an der Donau, of his once-rich-and-famous-be target reached even as mumbling non-singers, getting a little “size bang” play along with whiskey he steeled his voice over the years, with eggnog -. as him mother Hermine on special occasions have poured -. gargled “Nobody in this country has so much soul as this old white man who has never learned to sing,” wrote the levels and confirmed that the musician, his voice had never belonged to better as on the new album. 15 songs, ballads and panic rock numbers, where he remains true to itself and declared in strong lyrics and oblique neologisms, soulful and rocking, the life of his love.

the obituary of himself he sings the same himself: “If the nightingale silent, goes all over Germany heavily disguised, to mourn, to weep, in black cloth and in linen,” says Lindenberg paints the pictures after his passing out. “The Chancellor kneels and begins to whine. In the Tagesschau in a hurry, they speak to him immediately holy. And the record company at such times get rough delivery problems.”

Heavy topic in Udo-speech “very easy”. “I know the grim reaper’ve met him several times hit,” he says. “Kam crept to the bar and wanted to take me, but I told him:… Nope, prefer to go again to the houses, drink one, and come in 30 years again we founded the club of centenarians” 70 he is on May 17, just before the final of his stadium tour trilogy.

“Hey sorry, I can not here yet away genuine, have indeed ‘nen job,” he says. Why be modest, where it was clear early on but: “People on the street will later say: Look, there goes the famous Udo L.” Thus it has come, and so it had to come, for a “Plan B” as he has dubbed a song, for him there was never.

“Even as a child, that was clear, I check my DNA’ve got a very horny Matrix”, it stated. In the interview he said: “Hermann Hesse knew at 15, he is a writer or nothing, Mozart was already with 13 clear. Giant composer and nothing else For me it came with 12″ Never thought he had come to change his plan or to come to terms. “There was in Gronau too tight this through Planned from the cradle to the final bell, a life from the supermarket shelf -. Not an option.”

“I do my thing”: An anthem on his “Lindividualität”

“The planet hardly enter because they fing’n on already, rumzukneten to me But there was yes. nothing “, he sings and engages with” plan B “his comeback hit” I do my thing “again:” I’m not going to change, becoming ‘no other more, because it really is pretty cool, just being me.” Again a hymn to him important “Lindividualität”.

He had realized his “Westphalian-American dream,” says the musician. “Rock ‘n’ roll without end, life in the hotel, beautiful women and men, long check – everything I wanted, when I opened the window to the world.” A sinister energy there is one, when it was clear early: My way is no alternative. “All the unredeemed dreams of the parents, if one looks so: the father, frustrated, the only laughs when he can have a drink, the mother can with all the worries that never go away and look at the world.”

Udo Lindenberg tested once a middle class life in the 50s

Although, or because it “was so harmonious not always as one would have perhaps desired as a child”, he had it tries in his 50′s self: “. So’n personal, private happiness with cottage and so But my life in the service of Rock’n’Roll is not compatible with such a bourgeois form,” he says. “Art is such a demanding mistress, it does not allow any conventional ones, only complicities.”

It was also the time when himself turned away many fans of him only a kind of cartoon character and caricature of itself was for many, alcohol-years away from adequate retirement business. A Thanksgiving to the battered body – “My Body and I” – is also among the 15 songs. The song he sang in 2003 already, at that time it was a vision. The song appeared long before was again really listened to him. He was “ahead of time”, as Lindenberg says. Meanwhile, he was again “sneaker-fit”.

And now also officially the godfather, as he looks for a long time: The title song “Stronger than the time” was to Nino Rota’s film melody from the movie masterpiece “The Godfather”. Publishing and heirs of the composer had first and last time awarded a license for a German text, reports Rita Flügge-Timm from record label Dolce Rita Recordings.

With added Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, Lindenberg sings about friendship and cohesion. And immortality, he also for the “Lindiismus” – his art of music and painting – wishes. he had seen the Mafia epic hundreds of times, he says, poses with film quotes around and called Hollywood star Marlon Brando the “foreman” – “even a guy like me, with memory switch for the great art”. Lindenberg himself is head of the “panic family” of close friends: “I like being based Democrat, but sometimes you have to make the sponsors and aufhaben the hat.”

Udo Lindenberg begins on May 20, his stadium tour

Lindenberg was “The Last Unicorn, the real version of Pippi Longstocking,” wrote Star just above him , “Somebody has to do the job, yes,” he sings himself on the new record, “if no one else is here at the start”. On the day of the album release the musicians will board for the fourth time the “Rock Liner” and go on a cruise with 2,000 fans.

Shortly after his 70th he starts on May 20, the 14 concerts full stadium tour. “Each show may be the last”, a line is the song “Eldorado”. Lindenberg will it still be far away and makes the music and the fans, the declaration of love par excellence: “. Eldorado and I swear that I forever our rock ‘n’ roll and belonging to you”

On the tour he also is associated limitations again “the loneliest moment”, which he dedicated a song. Den he experiences in the last few minutes before a performance, “with soft knees, stomach turning and thoughts that wander again to the parents”.

In the lonely moments in the hotel room while looking the TV news ( “And again a thousand souls senselessly blown up”) he had wondered whether he can achieve something with his songs. “We wanted to change the world, at some point.” But he remains confident. “In lonely moments I look well even times deep into my eyes,” he says. “What I see then? A lot of familiar, but also mysterious, slightly alien exemplary, things still are a bit strange to me. There is still much to discover until golden runway.” Dorit Koch, dpa

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