Berluc

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Berluc is a rock band that had their big hits in the GDR .

Berluc
General information
origin Berlin , Luckenwalde
Genre (s) Rock music
founding 1974

Band history

Berluc was founded in 1974. The band's name is derived from the initials of the original home of the founding members Ber lin and Luc kenwalde from. They received their first GDR-wide attention in 1978 with the song Hallo Erde, hier ist Alpha , which arose from a soft spot among the band members for science fiction literature. The composition is by Alexander Stehr, the text by Sabine Heese. The song took first place in the Radio-DDR-Tip-Parade seven times , in the Tip-Disco by Voice of the GDR the title was found four times in first place and in the GDR annual charts in 1978 the song was listed in 7th place Reise zu den Sternen the debut album on the GDR label Amiga , which was described as very hard rock . This was followed in 1981 by an album on the West German label Teldec , which contained a compilation of songs from the debut album as well as other radio recordings, some of which were later included on the 1982 Amiga LP Hundred Thousand Primal Force . Berluc celebrated their next success in 1983 with the song No Bomb , which was described as one of the first metal hits in the GDR and took first place in the GDR annual hit parade in 1983. In April 1984 the group toured the Soviet Union and in the summer accompanied the Czechoslovak auto rodeo through the country. In the same year, the song The Earth Lives came in fourth on the annual hit parade. Her most successful album to date was released in 1985 under the title Rocker von derüste , the title referring to her adopted home Rostock . Berluc had her last hits in the GDR hit parade in 1988 with Ganz nah (5th place) and Home (6th place).

After the reunification , the group disbanded for the time being and started a comeback in 1993 . You are giving concerts again, primarily in the new federal states . The head of the band has been the drummer Dietmar Ränker, who still lives in Rostock , since it was founded . The other band members live in Halle and Berlin.

stylistics

Berluc plays straight rock music with primarily its own German lyrics.

Discography

Singles
  • 1977: Who's got my money / disco guy
  • 1978: Hello earth, this is alpha / stay sun stay
  • 1978: Computer 3 / 4x 7 You are not human
  • 1980: Amber Legend / Hundred Thousand Primal Forces
  • 1981: Amber Legend / Hundred Thousand Primal Forces
  • 1982: Gradaus / No Bomb
  • 1984: The earth is alive / fever
  • 1985: A thousand hands / Show your face
  • 1988: Like a Rainbow (EP)
  • 1994: Nachhaus (maxi-single, polyband)
Studio albums
  • 1979: Journey to the Stars (Amiga)
  • 1981: Berluc (Teldec)
  • 1982: Hundred Thousand Primal Forces (Amiga)
  • 1985: Rocker from the coast (Amiga)
Others
  • 1996: The Hits (Best of, BMG)
  • 2006: Blue Hour - The most beautiful ballads (Best of, Sony)
  • 2010: Journey to the Stars (Re-Release, Sony)
  • 2010: Rocker from the Coast (Re-Release, Sony)

Occupations

Until the dissolution after the turn

  • Dietmar Ränker - drums
  • Manfred Kähler - vocals (until 1988)
  • Alexander Stehr - Keyboard (until 1983)
  • Rainer Schilling - Keyboard (1984–1987)
  • Günter Briesenick - bass guitar (until 1981)
  • Gerd Pöppel - guitar (until 1982, switched to monocle )
  • Uwe Carsten - bass guitar (1981)
  • Wolfgang Hoffmann - bass guitar (1982–1984)
  • Detlef Brauer - vocals, guitar (1982–1984)
  • Tino Schultheis - bass guitar (1984)
  • Wilfried Kaminski - guitar (from 1984)
  • Ralf Dohanetz - vocals (from 1988)
  • Bernd Fleischer - guitar, keyboard (from 1988, came from Brigitte Stefan & Meridian , went to Factory of Art in 1993 )
  • Johannes Pistor - guitar (from 1986)
  • Andreas Schenker - vocals (early 1989–1991), solo since 1993

Since 1993

  • Dietmar Ränker - drums
  • Ronnie Pilgrim - vocals
  • Uwe Carsten - bass guitar (since 2012)
  • Bert Hoffmann - guitar
  • Uwe Märzke - keyboard
  • Tino Schultheis - bass guitar (1993–2012)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Christian Hentschel , Peter Matzke: When I went away ... The great GDR rock book . New Life, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-355-01733-6 , pp. 100 .
  2. ↑ cf. Hentschel / Matzke 2007, p. 282.
  3. ↑ cf. Hentschel / Matzke 2007, p. 283.
  4. ↑ cf. Hentschel / Matzke 2007, p. 284.
  5. ↑ cf. Hentschel / Matzke 2007, p. 285.
  6. ^ Günter Kutowski: Music from Rostock - Berluc. 0381 magazine, April 2010, accessed July 17, 2011 .
  7. ^ Volume: Factory Of Art. Biography. metalinside.de, accessed on May 8, 2016 .

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