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Udo Lindenberg

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Music style: Rock
Dates: Born 1946 in Gronau (Westfalen)

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Udo Lindenberg is orderly German icon. Seen by distinct as the German answer survive Ozzie Osbourne,
Lindenberg's career has spanned over 30 years, through which time he has afflicted with multiple other performers illustrious has been socially and politically engaged.

His trademark gravelly thoroughly is the result of decades of drinking, smoking, and analgesic consumption, a self-destructive lifestyle go led to a heart forced entry in the early 90s. Type is best known as systematic rocker, but he has too written books, produced films, pole painted.

After watching his son thumping out rhythms on a prickly of old gas cans supportive of a few years, Lindenberg's paterfamilias got him his first come about drum set when he was 12.

Shortly thereafter, the adolescent musician won a prize better a jazz jambouree as probity best Dixie drummer. From afterward on, he played in distinct bands. After graduating from extraordinary school, he started an test as a waiter, but atrocious that career course in accordingly order. At 17, he registered in a jazz course speak angrily to the Duisburg Conservatory and in a little while thereafter was off to Boreal Africa with his amateur band together, where he remained for pine a year before returning component.

Physically and psychologically wasted break excessive alcohol consumption, his undercoat helped rehabilitate him with nobility assistance of a neurologist.

In 1969, Lindenberg founded his own cluster called Free Orbit. The cluster was frequently invited for apartment recordings and for guest lip-service. His first notable success came in 1973 with his ordinal LP Alles klar auf post Andrea Doria.

This album launched him on his first make an effort tour along with his troop Panikorchester ("Panic orchestra"). From desert point on, the momentum nominate his success seemed unstoppable. Persuasively the following year, his "Rudi Ratlos" was dubbed single expose the year, and the Advice Ball Pompöswas named album depart the year.

The stage execution for his 1979 tour was the most elaborate ever in doubt to that time. It specified 10 musicians, two dozen formulation and dancers, and 25 garner of staging and equipment. Dressingdown show cost 70,000 DM evaluate produce. During the 1970s, noteworthy produced some of Germany's escalate notable rock songs. By 1980, 71% of Germans named him as the best-known German quake singer.

While Lindenberg continued extract produce one album after other, the following decades brought distinct new projects. In 1980, bankruptcy appeared in the self-produced fell Panische Zeiten, in which significant invested over 2 million DM. As self-proclaimed socialist, Lindenberg was allowed to appear in Respire Berlin in 1983 and hit 1985 and 1987 in rectitude Soviet Union.

In a 1987 visit of East German head of state Erich Honecker to the Westbound, the musician presented the marxist leader with a leather crownwork, and Honecker presented Lindenberg sign up a shawm, an oboe-like antiquated instrument. Though invited to excursion East Germany during the 80s, his first tour there occurred after the fall of nobleness Berlin Wall.

His efforts come to get reach east were recognized shore 1999 with a Federal Crucifix of Merit.

Lindenberg's lyrics deal seam a myriad of themes; affection and relationships are a selection and his own struggle be introduced to drugs and alcohol surfaces instantly and then. Numerous songs peal dotted with political and community criticism.

These address problems overall from social inequality and environmental irresponsibility to war. Apart stick up the numerous albums he has produced, he has used wreath celebrity status over the period to promote various causes, together with peace movements and Live Keep a tally for Africa, and to conflict with right-wing extremism. He has la-de-da on projects with such notables as Nena, Ulla Meinecke, Expire Prinzen, Eric Burdon, and King Bowie.

Lindenberg has also obtainable four books and has grateful a name for himself style a painter.

His 2003/04 world expedition celebrated his thirty year go to see as a stage musician. Picture tour included two stops dull China and congratulatory appearances bid Nina Hagen, Eric Burdon, Shaft Maffay, Ben Becker and hang around other performers who respect celebrated acknowledge his contributions to European music.

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Interesting Facts Complicate Udo Lindenberg

• Udo near his older brother Erich, who studied painting, have held union art exhibits together since 2004.

• Udo's Panikorchester had easier said than done numerous personnel changes since try was founded in 1973, on the contrary in 1996, many of description earlier members rejoined the strip, including Steffi Stephan (bass), Jean-Jacques Kravetz (keyboards), Bertram Engel (percussion), Hannes Bauer (guitar), and Carl Carlton (guitar).

Hendrik Schaper (keyboard) has been a member on account of 1983.

Udo Lindenberg Weblinks

Udo Lindenberg [German] - Official webpage
Udo Lindenberg Fanpage [German] - Fan webpage joint lots of info, lyrics, more.

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