Hamburg (dpa) – “Udopium – awesome pun, ne,” says Udo Lindenberg and grins. “Germany probably taking a new drug,” he explains what is happening around him
Under the influence of that Udopiums could take parties long -. Has felt the musicians for weeks birthday. Since he has presented his work “Stronger than the time”, he is not only celebrated by fans. Full steam he races since the end of April through the media channels in the charts he placed his third number one album, and he himself believes to have breakfast a rocket, because everything is so “geilomatik” upwards “hissing”.
While some appoint him to Germany’s only true Rockstar, other deal with the phenomenon of panic Rockers. Why it suddenly (nearly) all love? “Because I’m horny things,” he says. . On Tuesday (17 May), is Udo Lindenberg Gerhard now actually 70 years
What happened on that May 17, 1946 in Westphalia Gronau, he sang once: “I fell from the sky on a DD-double cornfield. ” Also what happened after that, betrayed his songs. About his early desire about, narrowness and drabness to escape: “One thing was for me even then quite clear: When I grow up later, driving I to America Determines waiting there already attractive on my father’s son and then shipped.. ‘ I what famous and at home they hör’n all of them. ” For him, it was clear: “And if we do not yet know where our lives have to walk quite different abrackern as stupid and get drunk at night front of the telly.” He did not have to ask, “How come I get out of this waiting room with frozen dreams in the refrigerator”
At the beginning there was a sort of “master plan”, the son of the installer Gustav and the housewife Hermione up had concocted the details – to be driven by the desire “rich and famous”. Since the late 60s, he prefers to live in Hamburg. Here, where he lived in the early years in an apartment with comedian Otto Waalkes and Rocker Marius Müller-Westernhagen and today the Hotel Atlantic is its duration hostel, he designed in sketches the image of the rock revolutionary: “Striking silhouette with narrow legwear, lurching Lindi -Choreografie and German texts. strategy papers for a route from the gully to the summit. “
Actually successful drummer, Lindenberg came in the early 70s to the fore. After foreplay – from “appearance” as tots in the pub of the father over the drumming in the henhouse to engagements with jazz greats like Klaus Doldinger – he joined as a singer in the spotlight
“Do not panic on. the Titanic, now we drink only once a rum with tea, “he sang in 1972 in” up in the north “, the following year he succeeded with” clear final Everything on the Andrea Doria “breakthrough. “At that time the official Pop Language English was, at least for those who can not be suicidal Stubborn, but sell a lot of records wanted,” notes author Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre in the book “On Trallafitti-counter” (2008), he and his colleague Moritz authored by Uslar. Uslar lists those decisions for the German the “historic achievement by Udo” and appreciates the “ease, casualness, brashness, the Ambiguous, and the snap of the fingers” in the lyrics. “The Universal, Major is made small, the seemingly unimportant, banal big.”
The authors exchange about Lindenberg plant in his lyrics in her book. Some of the typical “Udo-vocabulary”: somehow; just once; so alittle bit; let’s see; and so; all clear; and then I was completely done again. About the “Udo-staff”, he invented characters such as alcohol girl Jonny Controlletti, Bodo Ballermann, Rudi Perplexed, Sister King Kong, Gene Galaxo, Gerhard Gösebrecht, Wotan madness Elli Pirelly, Emanuel Flipmann and Lady Whisky.
Or on the Udo-term panic: the is an “example of Udo-vocabulary that has detached from any sense” lead and long life of their own, says Stuckrad-Barre. For the first time, and still in the original sense they appeared in “Up in the north” on. On the next drive his band was then already the panic Orchestra – “and ‘panic’ is henceforth as a synonym for everything Udo finds good, so subversive, chaotic, exciting …”
The Germans anyway on listening: That sounded unlike anything hitherto booming from the radio. Already the following album “Ball Pompös” brought gold, tours like “Dröhnland” directed by Peter Zadek became milestones. And Lindenberg a pioneer: “Without Udo Lindenberg we would all have not reached our German rock music, what happened”, said recently his colleague Nina Hagen in a TV documentary. He has history (n) written – in songs and statements: when he sang at times the division of Germany over the “Girl from East Berlin”, there appeared in the Palace of the Republic, with the “special train to Pankow” music surged through the wall or with GDR leader Erich Honecker leather jacket exchanged against Schalmei. His nearly 35-year-old song “What are Wars?” – A timeless anti-war anthem. And again and again rock to the right for a Colorful Republic of Germany.
At some point, one saw “Us Udo” more on the bar stool as on stage. Attributed to binge drinking, no proper late work in sight. The alcohol, which his father was inclined – even in his life and work very present, to brandy with colors painted and patented “liqueur Ellen”. “And the whiskey, which pulls down -. And his blood is fast and hot and now takes him Lady Whisky very tenderly in his arms,” he sang early 90s. First time in 2003 and on the new album was followed by a thank you to his body: “I have so smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish I have. ‘Super flayed you hard, but we are still living.” Again and again, he also acknowledged: “Many a high science and symphonies and higher spheres wär’n not have occurred if the colleague would always remained only sober.”
Other would have thrown everything finally out of the web , Lindenberg but has turned the corner. With the comeback eight years ago he succeeded the first number-one album of his career, now for “MTV Unplugged” (2011) he placed using “Stronger than the time” his third. With 70 years he is fitter than ever, rocked at the first rehearsals for his tour for nearly three hours in his neon green socks across the stage. Monuments were erected for him, including in Gronau, where he is to be an honorary citizen – and he has set for itself, not only with his songs, also with its own musical. After more than five years, it will soon be seen in Hamburg: “Beyond the horizon”, named after one of his greatest hits, on of him beloved and sung Reeperbahn
But first is the tour with 14th concerts at. His 70th he celebrates in the middle of the samples in the Schalke stadium in Gelsenkirchen. After starting on May 20, chauffeured 31 trucks the materials to 26 June the country: 200 speakers, 31 kilometers of cable, 300 special headlamps – for the “pompous Prom”, as he calls the tour also because “in this form not give it “the shows. As stated on its current board? “Each show may be the last.” This time it is for him the end of a trilogy that had begun in 2014 with the first stadium tour of his career. What happens next? “Then the adventurer continues towards new horizons,” he says. “But first, there is the last full charge Udopium for panic people.”
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