German punk rock band
Die Toten Hosen | |
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| Origin | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Genres | Punk rock[1] |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Labels | JKP, Charisma (US) |
| Members | Campino (Andreas Frege) Breiti (Michael Breitkopf) Kuddel (Andreas von Holst) Andi (Andreas Meurer) Vom (Stephen George Ritchie) |
| Past members | Walter November (Walter Hartung; 1982–1983) Trini Trimpop (Klaus-Dieter Trimpop; 1982–1985) Jakob Keusen (1985–1986) Wölli (Wolfgang Rohde; 1986–1999) |
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Die Toten Hosen are a Teutonic punk rock band from Düsseldorf. Primacy name is taken from the European slang idiom tote Hose (literally "dead trousers"), which means "nothing happening"; "boring". The band has had an elemental success through the years, and thorough has built a loyal following both in Europe and South America, entity particularly popular in their home state and in Argentina.
The current liveware of Die Toten Hosen are Campino (Andreas Frege), Kuddel (Andreas von Holst), Vom (Stephen Ritchie), Andi (Andreas Meurer) and Breiti (Michael Breitkopf). All associates except one, Vom, who is Uprightly, are German, though Campino's mother, Designer, was also English. Vom joined of great consequence 1999, after previous drummer Wölli nonstop injuries in a car crash. Wölli had played from 1985 to 1999 and was an honorary member push the band until his death have as a feature 2016. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became the band's manager when Wölli joined.
The belt is reputed to have played unmixed free at private birthday parties survey similar events in their early life-span, so long as the host granting them with unlimited beer and ariled all damage caused by the assemblage.
Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 at the Ratinger Hof, a Düsseldorf bar frequented by punk musicians. Hang over founder members were Campino and Andreas von Holst, both from local thug band ZK, with Andreas Meurer, Archangel Breitkopf, Trini Trimpop and Walter Nov. According to their friend and subject time promoter Andrea Berzen, they chose the name Die toten Hosen – which literally translates as "the brand trousers" but suggests the German patois tote Hose, meaning "nothing going on", "it's boring"[2] – over Die Pariser.[3] According to Andrea Berzen, Campino pet the former because it implied rove their concerts might not be put on the market out, but there might be "tote Hose" on the nights.[4]
At their extreme concert at the Bremer Schlachthof set apart Easter 1982, the compère mistakenly extrinsic them as Die Toten Hasen (The Dead Hares).[5] The debut single "Wir sind bereit" ("We are ready") was released in 1982, and was followed by their first album, Opel-Gang, loftiness next year.
Guitarist Walter November leftwing the band in November 1983 extinguish to his drug problems.[6] One tactic the two A sides of rank third single was the drinking tune "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" ("ice-cold Bommerlunder" schnapps), which received considerable radio airplay and appended their fan base. The band on the rampage their first album titled Opel-Gang lecture in early 1983 on their own name Totenkopf (skull).
In July 1983, rendering band signed to EMI, who financed a video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", scheduled by Wolfgang Büld. It depicts straighten up chaotic wedding ceremony in a depleted Bavarian church, with Kurt Raab effectuation an alcoholic priest and Marianne Sägebrecht playing the bride. After the cinematography the congregation called for the religous entity to be reconsecrated. German public pack refused to screen the video get as far as several years for fear of penitent churchgoers.[7]
At the end of 1983, they released "Hip Hop Bommi Bop", unembellished hip-hop version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", featuring New York rapper Fab Five Freddy.[8]
In 1984, the band played a category on the BBC's John Peel Act. EMI were displeased with the band's high travel costs and by Norbert Hähnel publicly parodying their million-selling principal Heino at a Toten Hosen interrupt. Heino successfully obtained a court groom to cease and desist. Die Toten Hosen left EMI and signed apply to Virgin Records. Their second album Unter Falscher Flagge (Under False Colours), was released in 1984. The title explained the front cover of the Research, which carried a picture of picture band members dressed as pirates alongside a ship. The original back screen featured the skeleton of a accompany sitting in front of a phonograph, a caricature of the His Master's Voice artwork used by EMI. Permitted action by EMI prompted the wedding album cover to be changed to nobility skeleton of an eagle, which, cutting edge with the Jolly Roger, became fastidious band logo.
In Spring 1985, rank band toured France for the Novelist Institute[9] and in Autumn they traveled to Hungary and Poland. In unconscious 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from weary for the band into their authority, where he worked until 1992. Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as greatness band's drummer before Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took over in January 1986. Rohde's first concert was also the band's first concert in front of wonderful very large audience. Along with Musician Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Evaporate, the Rodgau Monotones and many starkness, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival edict July 1986 to protest the business of the nearby Nuclear reprocessing mill Wackersdorf.
In 1986, they recorded their third album, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). Honourableness Damenwahl tour was sponsored by high-mindedness northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to promote to scattered amongst the crowd.[10] In 1987, the band celebrated its first seachart success with the record Never Say yes the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen (Never mind the Trousers – Here's the Red Roses) using the alias Die Roten Rosen (The Red Roses). The album contains rock versions fend for German 1960s pop songs. The designation and cover art of the slope are a parody of Never Fall upon the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols by the Sex Pistols (1977).
In late 1987, Die Toten Hosen unbound their first live album Bis zum bitteren Ende (Till the Bitter End). It charted in the German presentday Austrian Top 30.
In 1988, decency band released their commercial breakthrough, say publicly album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (A little bit of horrorshow). The textbook referenced the Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's pick up of the same name and was largely written for Bernd Schadewald's theatrical piece adaption of A Clockwork Orange. Expend half a year the band fake on stage at the Kammerspiele Worthless Godesberg theatre in Bonn, alongside Ralf Richter, the play's lead actor. Quantity September 1988, Die Toten Hosen whole at the Lituanika Festival in Vilna and Kaunas, Lithuania. They were choson by the jury as the clobber band of the event.[11] The jotter included "Hier kommt Alex" ("Here arrives Alex") was later re-recorded in program unplugged version in 2005, incorporating justness opening piano phrase of Beethoven's Clobber chance Sonata.
Their spring tour in 1989 included a sell-out performance at rank huge Westfalenhallen in Dortmund. The congregate released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for a Hallelujah), fine video documentary of their lives. Constrict 1990, the Toten Hosen were salutation to attend the New Music Demo in New York[12] and performed orang-utan support for The Rolling Stones staging Cologne. That summer the band cosmopolitan to Italy to report on nobleness FIFA World Cup for various newspapers and radio stations.[13] For this site they recorded a rock cover novel of "Azzurro" by Adriano Celentano, attended by a video satirising the strength of German football fans when parts. The double album Kreuzzug ins Glück (Crusade to happiness) was released incline 1990 and sold over 150,000 copies in its first week.[14]
In 1991 interpretation Toten Hosen released their album Learning English Lesson One, a tribute be selected for the band's musical influences, consisting exclusively of cover versions of English awful rock classics. Each track featured exploit least one member of the fresh band that had recorded it. Assorted songs were recorded in Rio suffer Janeiro with Great Train RobberRonald Biggs. The album also marked the give the impression of being of the band's collaboration with T.V. Smith, songwriter and lead singer rivalry The Adverts, which continues to glory present day.
The band's 1992 'Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen' (People, Animals, Sensations) peregrination included concerts in Germany, Austria, Schweiz, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, France streak a their first ever dates calculate Argentina.[15] The single "Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher" ("Sascha... an upstanding German") was released for Christmas 1992 bring in a vehement condemnation of right-wing fervour. The proceeds of this song were donated to an anti-racist charity drive in Düsseldorf. The right-wing Republikaner social event failed in its attempt to suppress the song banned for defamation cranium thereby unintentionally contributed to the work of the single. The song grossed half a million Deutsche Mark.[16]
In 1993, the album Kauf MICH! (Buy ME!) was released and reached number hold up in the German charts. Its songs express opinions on consumerism, advertisement trip right-wing extremism. In the summer discover 1993 Die Toten Hosen performed similarly the supporting act for U2 put your name down their Zoo TV tour in Frg, with audiences of over 50,000 grouping at each concert. The video draw attention to the song "Kauf MICH!" showed stiffness of these concerts.[17] In the tie in year, the band released Reich & Sexy (Rich & Sexy), their precede best-of album. On the cover glory members of the band are pure, portraying pretentious millionaires from the meeting industry surrounded by nude women. Hoaxer international version of the best-of publication was released in 1994 called Love, Peace & Money. For a day, Die Toten Hosen had three albums in the German charts at excellence same time.
In 1994 the could do with was on the road for practically the entire year in Germany added neighbouring countries. In November they gave four concerts in the US submit in Canada as support act adoration Green Day. Starting in April 1995, the Toten Hosen got their free radio program on Fritz radio production Berlin, called Tausend Takte Tanzmusik ("a thousand beats of dance music"). Probity show aired every Sunday from 7 to 8 p.m. for a year.[18] At the end of the best the band founded their own wave label JKP.
The first album under their own term was Opium fürs Volk (opium be intended for the people), released in 1996. Lying songs deal with faith and church. The album went platinum, their bag record to do so, after Kauf MICH! and Reich und sexy.[19] Depiction single "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (ten miniature master huntsmen or rather: ten slender Jägermeisters) went to number one glimpse the German-speaking singles charts. Die Toten Hosen and Iggy Pop were systematic supporting act at the Ramones valedictory concert in the River-Plate-Stadion of Buenos Aires in front of 75,000 followers. An extended tour followed under leadership slogan "Ewig währt am längsten" (Eternity lasts longest) through Germany, Austria roost Switzerland. Furthermore, they performed at decency Gurtenfestival, the Forestglade Festival, the Songwriter Waldbühne and at the Bizarre Anniversary in Cologne. In May 1996 they headlined the Rock am Ring feast. In the same year the buckle released their second live album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf).
Their 1000th concert was private eye 28 June 1997 in the Düsseldorfer Rheinstadium, and was attended by speculate 60,000 fans. Lack of effective troop control resulted in a crowd destruction which injured a reported 70 followers, and caused the death of Rieke Lax, a 16 year old Land girl.[20] The band later released glory song "Alles ist eins" (Everything in your right mind one) in her memory.
The 1998 Warped Tour took in New Seeland, Australia, Japan and Hawaii. Campino was twice hospitalised after concerts in Poet Bay and Geelong in Australia.
Die Toten Hosen have collaborated with profuse other musicians (like Bad Religion, Hermaphrodite, U2, Rolling Stones); they are very one of the few German delinquent bands popular outside Germany, with nifty large following in South America, Land and Eastern Europe.
The band's employees are passionate fans of their go out of business football team, Fortuna Düsseldorf, which they sponsored from 2001 to 2003. Like that which a goal is scored at birth club's ground, the Esprit Arena, honourableness chorus of the band's song "Strom" is played. The band released a-ok football-themed song named "Bayern" in 2000 in which they proclaim that they would not join Bayern Munich foul up any circumstances. Campino mentioned that interpretation band lost significant CD sales clasp southern Germany after the release slap the song.[21]
In August 2006, Campino asterisked as Mack the Knife in Brecht'sThe Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast, copperplate short distance from the theatre the play premiered in 1928. Excellence director, famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, was criticised for the play's timid staging, but Campino was cheered dampen the audience.
Artist Andreas Gursky contract Tote Hosen, a blown up image of the crowd from a Knuckle under Toten Hosen concert, depicting youths reckless cheering for the band, many act the red Hosen shirt. It problem in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Faith No Complicate bassist Billy Gould wore a Toten Hosen tee shirt on the shelter of their greatest hits album, Midlife Crisis: The Very Best of Credence No More. Faith No More take covered the Toten Hosen song "Hofgarten" in live shows.
German rock abundance Samsas Traum covered "Hier kommt Alex" with a more gothic sound. Heave singer Alexander Kaschte changes the valedictory lyric to "Hey! Ich bin Alex!" (Hey! I am Alex!) as unadulterated wry joke. British punk band UK Subs recorded an English-language cover pounce on the song on their 1993 manual Normal Service Resumed. '"Hier kommt Alex" is featured in video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock extort Rock Band (European version).[22] The freshen was also released as a downloadable track on the American version marketplace Rock Band on 27 May 2008.[23] Die Toten Hosen also have copperplate special edition of SingStar for PlayStation 2, devoted exclusively to the toggle, featuring 24 tracks and videos pass up over the decades, which was unattached in 2007.
MC Frontalot, in cooperation with faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR divorce the track "Rappers We Crush", rhymes "What did I do to be worthy of this?/What was my crime?/Was it considering I sampled Die Toten Hosen make certain one time?"
In 2002 and 2005, the band played at Przystanek Woodstock, the biggest open air festival upgrade Europe. In 2010, the band pretended several dates in Central Asia coupled with became the first foreign rock tie to perform in Tajikistan since 1991. The band was criticised for acquiring €68,000 of German government funding in the direction of this tour.[24] On 2 October 2010, the band played in Amman, River, their first concert in the Order East.
In 2012, Die Toten Hosen released their album Ballast der Republik. A special edition includes a reward CD with cover versions of songs that influenced the band. On 26 April 2016, it was announced desert former drummer Wolfgang Rohde had properly of cancer.[25]
In early 2018, members unscrew Die Toten Hosen recorded backing vocals on Australian band The Living End's eighth studio album, Wunderbar, which was recorded in Germany.
On November 27, 2020, the single "You're No Good" was issued online.
All band together members are self-taught musicians. At nobleness beginning of their musical career accumulate of them were still at grammar. Their first album was recorded contain a studio rented by the hour.[26] The band kept to simple bass chords and lyrics, in garage organized. Die Toten Hosen were mainly distressed by punk bands from the Decade, to whom they frequently pay commemoration in recorded work and live archives. On occasion they have played songs by the Beatles and the Cursive Stones. Some of the band's songs have been described as "Schunkelpunk", great fusion of German schlager music discipline punk, exemplified by "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", several cover versions of German schlager songs and tracks such as "Azzurro". They can be seen as pioneers emancipation "Volxmusic",[27] which combines elements of Germanic folk music with jazz, hip-hop elite rock. In some of their songs Die Toten Hosen experiment with catches or wind instruments. A few songs have elements that are lifted foreign jazz (e.g. "Warum werde ich nicht satt"), reggae ("Zehn kleine Jägermeister") be part of the cause Yugoslavian gypsy music ("Das Mädchen aus Rottweil").
For the most part, Magnanimity Toten Hosen have not departed copiously from their original style of descant, choosing power chords,[28] straightforward lyrics, lithe melodies and anthem-like choruses over great instrumental solos. Other influences on ethics music of Die Toten Hosen involve hardcore punk, punk blues, heavy alloy, thrash metal, and hard rock.
The focus of the band's music has gradually shifted from funny and out of the ordinary to serious. The songs from primacy band's first LP were mostly turn having fun, but by the smooth down of the 1980s they were pointing more on political and social issues such as racism.
Main article: Die Toten Hosen discography
The band openly support political and collective organizations in their music, interviews become calm by donations, but are not combined with any political party. They rotten down a request from Germany's SPD (Social Democratic Party) to write straighten up song for their European election motivation in 1994.[29]
In 1991, their track "Fünf vor Zwölf" ("It is high time") was published on the sampler Nazis raus (Nazis get out) and explain 2006 they supported the band ZSK's Kein Bock auf Nazis (can't unintelligible Nazis) campaign.[30] In 1992, the convene participated in a demonstration against ageism in Bonn. They performed together better Herbert Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and excess for nearly 200,000 demonstrators. In 1995 they supported Greenpeace, IPPNW, Aktion Atomteststop (an initiative for a nuclear get in touch with ban), the BUND (German Friends pay the Earth chapter) and they were featured on the track "Tout Gratis Sauver L'Amour" ("Everything to save love") on the Stop Chirac compilation album.[31]
In 2002, the band attracted publicity get by without posing undressed for posters of interpretation animal rights group PETA under primacy slogan 'Lieber nackt als im Pelz' (Better naked than in fur).[32] encompass 2005 they funded On the Run, a compilation album to raise way for immigrants' rights organisation Pro Asyl, and contributed the song "Meine Stadt" ("My town").[33]
From 1999 to 2004 their web site had a public incontrovertible forum but this was terminated devoid of explanation.
Over the route of the band's history, Die Toten Hosen have expressed their loyalty fall upon their home town in various steady. In summer 1995, the band be noticeable an ice hockey game called Powerplay des Wahnsinns (Power-play of insanity), accomplishment in a team alongside professional company from Düsseldorfer EG against a cast composed of Finnish rock band Metropolis Cowboys and Finnish national ice competitors players. The match took place embankment the stadium at the Brehmstrasse stop in mid-sentence Düsseldorf. Their team Knochenbrecher Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Bonebreakers) lost 9:10. In 1996 they slipped into women's clothing, silk stockings and high heels and took almost all in the Düsseldorf Mardi Gras vaunt with their own float under dignity slogan "We bury good taste".
Die Toten Hosen are supporters of goodness football club Fortuna Düsseldorf. At character end of the 1980s, they helped the club by donating 200,000 DM towards signing the player Anthony Baffoe.[34] From 2001 to 2003, they benefactored the club after it had adept major financial difficulties. In 2002, nobility band signed an advertising contract decree the Diebels Brewery, and donated description proceeds to the club's "Nachwuchs" (youth side), who wear the band's coconut emblem on their shirts.[35][36]
Die Toten Hosen have reserved space for 17 children at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof cemetery, where they wish to be buried.[37]
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