Austropop is pop music from Austria , which came into use in the late 1960s, but had its heyday in the 1970s and early and up until the mid-1980s. Austropop comprises several musical styles, from traditional pop music to rock , and it also sometimes includes traditional folk elements such as yodeling .
21-463: Austropop artists usually distinguish themselves from german genres by using decidedly Austrian dialects for their lyrics. For example, Neue Deutsche Welle does not count as Austropop, as not only do the artists originate from Germany, but their lyrics are also in Standard German . The movement is believed to have started in 1971 by Wolfgang Ambros with his song " Da Hofa ", although this
42-483: A Panic Orchestra tour of the GDR . In 1976, Lindenberg discovered Ulla Meinecke and produced her first two albums. She was a guest artist and co-author of the 1977 LP Panische Nächte ( Panic Nights ) and the 1978 Dröhnland Symphonie . On Lindenbergs Rock Revue (1978), Lindenberg and Horst Königstein [ de ] "Germanized" rock classics from Little Richard to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones , and went on
63-405: A big tour. The number 1 hit " We Gotta Get out of This Place " was also released with German lyrics. The subsequent Dröhnland-Symphonie -Tour was staged by Peter Zadek as a big multimedia stage show with a plethora of costumed extras. The result was Lindenberg's first live album Livehaftig . In 1979, Der Detektiv was the second Rock Revue, in which more international hits such as " Candle in
84-622: A lesser extent, the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region , Limburg an der Lahn and Vienna . From about 1980 on, the music industry began noticing the Neue Deutsche Welle; however, because of the idiosyncratic nature of the music, focus shifted to creating new bands more compatible with the mainstream rather than promoting existing bands. Many one-hit wonders and short-lived bands appeared and were forgotten again in rapid succession. The overly broad application of
105-542: A number of projects. Lindenberg has been living in the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg since 1995, except for a short break during COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. His somewhat hoarse voice is according to his own statement caused by his consumption of whisky and cigars . In 1989, he survived a heart attack . In 2010, he designed two postage stamps , based on his songs "Andrea Doria" and "Sonderzug nach Pankow", for
126-696: A studio and guest musician (with Michael Naura, Knut Kiesewetter ). In 1970, he collaborated as a drummer with jazz saxophonist Klaus Doldinger in Munich . In 1971 Passport , a band founded by Doldinger, released its first album, with Lindenberg on drums. He also played drums for the theme music for the German TV series Tatort . The first LP by the jazz rock group Emergency was released in 1971, but met with little commercial success. The LP Lindenberg (also 1971, sung in English, with Steffi Stephan on bass)
147-411: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Austria -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Neue Deutsche Welle Neue Deutsche Welle ( NDW , pronounced [ˈnɔʏə ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə] , "New German Wave") is a genre of West German rock music originally derived from post-punk and new wave music with electronic influences. The term
168-408: Is debated. Ambros became famous, however, by translating songs by Bob Dylan into Austrian German, the most famous of which is "Naa, i bins ned" , the translation of Dylan's " It Ain't Me Babe " . Austropop is still broadcast by various FM radio and TV stations throughout Austria and Bavaria, where they even have special nights replaying Austropop concerts. This article about a music genre
189-705: The MTV Unplugged series. Lindenberg was the eighth German artist in that series. The album became the second No. 1 album for Lindenberg, awarded platinum status for 200,000 units sold after two weeks. The second single from the album "Cello" (feat. Clueso ) went to No. 4, giving Lindenberg the highest chart position in German singles charts ever. Lindenberg has worked collaboratively with various local and international recording artists such as Eric Burdon , Helen Schneider , David Bowie , Tom Robinson , Keith Forsey , Gianna Nannini , Ellen ten Damme and Nena on
210-766: The Deutsche Post . For 2014, Lindenberg announced his first stadium tour in Germany. From 1 February to 2 April 2015, an exhibition entitled "Porsche.Panic.Power" took place in the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen and showed numerous items from Lindenberg's private collection. Lindenberg opened the exhibition with a concert in the museum. Lindenberg features in the 2016 book Panikherz by Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre [ de ] . Stuckrad-Barre recounts how Lindenberg helped him move away from
231-513: The zeitgeist of urban West Germany during the Cold War , others used the language in a surreal way, merely playing with its sound or graphic quality rather than using it to express meaning, as done by bands and artists such as Spliff , Joachim Witt and Trio . The main centers of the NDW movement during these years were West Berlin , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Hanover and Hagen , as well as, to
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#1732764904909252-523: The Anglophone world occurred in 2003, with the release of DJ Hell 's compilation New Deutsch . The NDW has come to be acknowledged as a forerunner to later developments in dance-punk , electronic body music and electroclash . Udo Lindenberg Udo Lindenberg (born 17 May 1946) is a German singer, composer, and painter. Lindenberg started his musical career as a drummer. In 1969, he founded his first band Free Orbit, and also appeared as
273-401: The NDW label to these bands, as well as to almost any German musicians not using English lyrics, even if their music was apparently not influenced at all by the original NDW sound (including pure rock bands like BAP or even Udo Lindenberg ), quickly led to the decay of the entire genre when many of the original musicians turned their backs in frustration. A revival of interest in the style in
294-554: The Neue Deutsche Welle consists of two major parts. From its beginnings to 1981, the genre was mostly an underground movement with roots in British punk and new wave music . It quickly developed into an original and distinct style, influenced in no small part by the different sound and rhythm of the German language, which many of the bands had adapted from early on. Whilst some of the lyrics of artists like Nena and Ideal epitomized
315-484: The Wind " by Elton John , " Born to Be Wild " by Steppenwolf , "My Little Town" and "As Time Goes By" (from the film, Casablanca ) were "Germanized". Also in 1997 was published "Belcanto - Udo Lindenberg & das Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg" which included hits like "Horizont", "Bis ans Ende der Welt" along with a song by Bertold Brecht and Lindenberg's own interpretation of " The Windmills of Your Mind " - "Under
336-451: The drunkard moon" ("Unterm Säufermond") (lyrics: Lindenberg, Horst Königstein). One of Lindenberg's most famous songs is " Sonderzug nach Pankow " (Special train service to Pankow), an adaptation of " Chattanooga Choo Choo ", released as a single on 2 February 1983. It originated from the refusal of eastern German authorities to allow Lindenberg to perform in the GDR. It was forbidden to play
357-912: The largest record deal of any German-language musician up to that time. Lindenberg was earning a special place in the new German-language music of the 1970s, finding a niche between internationally oriented Krautrock and mainstream pop music of the Schlager variety. German-language rock had previously been confined to predominantly political message bands whose music was directed at a narrow audience. Lindenberg's brash style, everyday subject matter ("Bei Onkel Pö …") and his feel for language were an unprecedented combination in German-language music. His pioneering work helped other artists such as Stefan Waggershausen and Marius Müller-Westernhagen get record deals of their own. In 1973, Lindenberg first went on tour with his Panikorchester (Panic Orchestra). 1976
378-658: The song in the GDR. On 25 October 1983, Lindenberg was finally allowed to perform for 15 minutes in the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin. In September 1987, he presented a custom Ibanez guitar to the then East German leader, Erich Honecker , during his visit to the West German city of Wuppertal . On 3 June 2011, Lindenberg performed at Kampnagel unplugged. The recording was later released as an album within
399-656: Was first coined by Dutch radio DJ Frits Ritmeester on the popular nationwide radio station Hilversum 3 , which was very popular among German listeners. Soon after that, the term was used in a record-shop advertisement by Burkhardt Seiler in an August 1979 issue of the West German magazine Sounds . It was then used by journalist Alfred Hilsberg in an article about the movement titled Neue Deutsche Welle — Aus grauer Städte Mauern ("New German Wave — From Grey Cities' Walls") in Sounds in October 1979. The history of
420-476: Was likewise unsuccessful. In the following year, the first LP in German was released: Daumen im Wind (produced by Lindenberg and Thomas Kukuck, who also co-produced Lindenberg's next five albums), featuring the single "Hoch im Norden", which became a radio hit in northern Germany. The year 1973 brought a breakthrough with the album Andrea Doria and the singles "Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria " and "Cello". With over 100,000 copies sold, Lindenberg quickly received
441-575: Was one of Lindenberg's most productive years. Besides the LP Galaxo Gang , he also released a record under the name Das Waldemar Wunderbar Syndicat ( I make you feel good ), a first Best of Panik Udo and the first in a series of foreign-language releases, No Panic , on which Lindenberg translated his songs into English. In the same year (and on another LP: Sister King Kong ) with the song "Rock 'n' Roll Arena in Jena ", Lindenberg first mentioned
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