Radio Maria (album)
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| Studio album by Marius Müller-Westernhagen | ||||
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1998 |
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12 |
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52:23 |
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Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Pete Wingfield |
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Radio Maria is a 1998 WEA Records published music album of the singer Marius Mueller-Westernhagen who it under the nickname Westlife released. With over 1.25 million copies, the album is one of the best-selling music albums in Germany .
Creation and publication
Radio Maria was Westernhagen's 18th album and the follow-up album to the million-seller Affentheater , which was released in 1994. Westernhagen initially took a break after Affentheater and tried to reorient itself musically. It took two years to work on the album. The music and lyrics of the album come from Marius Müller-Westernhagen, who wrote the songs in Italy; the inclusion of Radio Maria took place in the famous Olympic Studios in London . The album title refers to the Catholic radio station Radio Maria .
Already on July 20, 1998 the first single of the album, Jesus, was pre-coupled, which reached number 17 in the German single charts. The title caused controversy, so Westernhagen was accused by the Conference of Evangelical Publicists that Jesus was blasphemous.
Radio Maria was released on August 17, 1998 and entered the German album charts at number 1 . This was preceded by an advertising campaign costing around three million marks, which resulted in a three-day interview and promotion meeting between Westernhagen and the press in a Hamburg villa. At the beginning of September 1998, 500,000 copies of the album had already been sold. The album's second single, Wieder hier , released on September 21, 1998 , sold over 250,000 copies and was awarded a gold record .
Westernhagen went on tour in Germany with Radio Maria from May to June 1999. In August 1998 he announced that this would be his last tour. A recording of the tour was shown under the title Westernhagen live 1999 for the first time on August 6, 1999 on Sat. 1 on television.
Track list
- Jesus - 4:03
- Lola Blue - 4:51
- Superman - 4:44
- Walkman - 2:46
- Hope - 4:26
- Alone - 3:05
- Through your love - 6:11
- Rosamunde - 3:40
- You never resisted - 4:31
- Where's Behle? - 3:06
- Here again - 6:26
- Yesterday's child - 4:34
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"Musically, Westernhagen, who is back with his album 'Radio Maria', does not mince words," wrote the Lausitzer Rundschau . “The musical range of Westernhagen's new album 'Radio Maria' is huge. It ranges from classic rock'n roll to ballads to folk songs and country blues ”, stated the Saarbrücker Zeitung . "The mostly ballad-like pieces are varied, professionally arranged, sung gently and delicately," said the Allgemeine Zeitung , calling the song Jesus the weakest on the album. "Even after a four-year break from the studio, Westernhagen has mastered the balancing act of producing for permanent doodle use on the format radio and at the same time having to sound like a well-grounded rocker," wrote the Saarbrücker Zeitung .
The Trierische Volksfreund viewed the album critically: “It's not a quick shot but also not a big hit that the 49-year-old has worked out together with his musicians in the last two years: well-known melodies and sometimes incomprehensible dirty poetics.” Westernhagen “didn't” with Radio Maria just instigated musical revolutions, but at least found back to those qualities that once helped him to the throne of German rockers, ”wrote the Rhein-Zeitung . “It's a shame his music got stuck somewhere in the seventies. Unexciting pathos rock, which is driven by gently howling guitars, a precise rhythm section and the sometimes barking sharp organ of the singer ”, wrote the Tagesspiegel .
Awards
Radio Maria was awarded five times gold for more than 1.25 million copies sold . In 1999, Westernhagen won the Echo in the category “National Artist of the Year” for the album and was nominated for an Echo for Radio Maria in the same category the following year.
Web links
- Radio Maria at Discogs
- Radio Maria at Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 14, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ingrid Böck: Jesus, Maria and Marius (interview). In: Focus , August 10, 1998, pp. 152-155.
- ↑ a b Reiner Schweinfurth: If it's worth it for me. 'Radio Maria': Müller-Westernhagen is at the top of the charts . In: Tagesspiegel , 23 August 1998, p. 27.
- ↑ a b A 'monkey theater' for thoughtful tones . In: Allgemeine Zeitung , August 15, 1998.
- ↑ Pop News . In: Passauer Neue Presse , September 4, 1998.
- ↑ a b Westernhagen: This is my last tour . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , August 7, 1998, p. 7.
- ^ Westernhagen live 1999 . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 6, 1999, p. 22.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Actually he didn't want to go on tour anymore . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , August 14, 1998.
- ↑ Jörg-Peter Klotz: Our all Marius and his 18th album . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , August 20, 1998.
- ↑ Marius for the last time? New CD from Müller-Westernhagen appears today . In: Trierischer Volksfreund , August 17, 1998.
- ↑ Daniel Roth: “Introducing new songs without any frills” . In: Rhein-Zeitung , August 18, 1998.