City (band)

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City
City (2010) in Seelow
City (2010) in Seelow
General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1972
Website www.city-internet.de
Founding members
guitar
 Fritz Puppel
Drums
 Klaus Selmke († May 22, 2020)
bass
 Ingo Döring
singing
 Frank Pfeiffer
flute
 Andreas Pieper
Current occupation
guitar
 Fritz Puppel
singing
 Toni Krahl
Keyboard
 Manfred Hennig
Bass, violin
 Georgi Gogow
former members
singing
 Emil Bogdanov
Keyboard
 Rudiger Barton
guitar
 Gisbert Piatkowski
Annual hit parade of the GDR
title
At the window
  GDR 2 1977
It's really hot
  GDR 42 1977
The King of Prenzlauer Berg
  GDR 4th 1978
Traudl
  GDR 46 1978
  GDR 16 1979
From far
  GDR 21st 1979
Saturday noon
  GDR 27 1981
Cons
  GDR 19th 1982
Just rock and roll
  GDR 37 1982
Glass dream
  GDR 2 1983
Under the skin
  GDR 12 1983
Sisiphus
  GDR 25th 1983
What carries me
  GDR 24 1984
I feel cold about it
  GDR 37 1984
  GDR 9 1985
Neon god
  GDR 14th 1985
Silhouette
  GDR 34 1985
Casablanca
  GDR 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 1987
Peppermint sky
  GDR 21st 1987
Wall to wall
  GDR 13 1988
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
At the window 2
  DE 64 04/08/2002 (1 week)
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
  DE 84 04/06/2007 (1 week)
Forever Young
  DE 41 03/09/2012 (2 weeks)
Rock Legends (with the Puhdys and Karat )
  DE 21st 10/10/2014 (8 weeks)
Rock Legends Live (with the Puhdys and Karat )
  DE 13 09/25/2015 (9 weeks)
The blood so loud
  DE 16 04/14/2017 (4 weeks)
Rock Legenden Vol. 2 (with carat, machine and Matthias Reim )
  DE 23 October 13, 2017 (3 weeks)
Candlelight spectacle - Live in Saxony
  DE 47 11/01/2019 (2 weeks)

City is a German music group . The band was founded in East Berlin in 1972 and achieved their breakthrough with their title Am Fenster . At first they were called City Rock Band or City Band Berlin .

history

City was founded in 1972 by Fritz Puppel ( guitar ) and Klaus Selmke ( drums ) in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg as City Band Berlin . They expanded the band

  • Ingo Döring ( bass ),
  • Frank Pfeiffer ( vocals ) and
  • Andreas Pieper ( flute ).

In 1974 the line-up was changed because Puppel, who taught at the Friedrichshain Music School , was dissatisfied with the line-up of the band.

  • In 1974 Georgi Gogow (later NO 55 ), who also played the violin in some of the songs , replaced Döring; Emil Bogdanow came for Pfeiffer.
  • 1975 Toni Krahl took over the post of singer Bogdanow.

The band's first single was also released on the GDR record label Amiga in 1975. They had their breakthrough in the music scene in 1977 with the title Am Fenster . The LP of the same name was released in 1978. They received gold records for this in the Federal Republic of Germany and Greece . City was one of the few music groups in the GDR that were allowed to perform in the Federal Republic of Germany.

There was another line-up for the band:

The English-language LP Dreamer , produced by Jack Rieley of the Beach Boys , was released in this line-up. The album was released abroad as Dreamland . It was the first GDR record that was designed for the English-speaking market. When it came to internal tension in the band in 1981, Gogow and Piatkowski left the band and founded NO 55. Gogow's post was no longer filled because it was felt that no equivalent replacement could be found. During this time the slogan arose: Without bass and without hair with City through the 80s , which also alluded to the low hair growth of some City members. In some songs, a bass line and other effects (including string sounds) were played with the keyboard.

Manfred Hennig (formerly Babylon , Pond and Elefant ) joined Barton in 1982, who switched to Silly. After this change in line-up, Puppel took over the guitar again. With the lyrics of their LP Casablanca , which was released in 1987 , they broke some taboos, including in the ambiguous titles z. B. Susann and wall to wall. In September 1989, the city musicians were among the initiators of the resolution of rock musicians and songwriters for more freedom in the GDR in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall .

After the fall of the Wall, Puppel and Krahl founded the record label K & P Musik , as the new freedom heralded the demise of the former eastern bands. This label produced, among others, André Herzberg ( Pankow ), Karat and Keimzeit .

Since 1992 Gogow has been part of the band again. Since then he has been playing the violin and bass again. In 1995 Hennig returned to City after a break. From 1998 City appeared together with Silly at times, with Krahl taking over Tamara Danz's vocal part .

In May 2020, the drummer Klaus Selmke died at the age of 70 after a long illness.

  • Fritz Puppel

  • Klaus Selmke

  • Toni Krahl

  • Manfred Hennig

  • Georgi Gogow

Hits

City's greatest success is the song Am Fenster , which has been sold more than 10 million times worldwide to date. Their first West LP City (in the GDR: Am Fenster ) with a 17 minute long version of this song has sold half a million copies so far. It is the greatest success of a GDR song in western Germany to date. Even today he appears there in most of the classic playlists and is considered a dance floor filler. The text of this song is based on a poem by Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß , but a verse by Krahl was mistakenly sung twice. The title was originally for the album production due to its length and the violin, it did not belong to rock music according to the understanding of the time, was not planned by Amiga and not wanted. Since Amiga City always made four hours available for studio productions and there was still time left after a recording, Gogow asked Helmar Federowski to record one of her pieces as well. Am Fenster was played live on the condition that it was only used for personal use and not made public . On the same day, Gogow went to the editor of the Beatkiste and asked him to play the title on the radio . After that, the record stores were stormed for a single that didn't exist. So City managed to get Amiga to use the recording to make a single out of it.

The song Casablanca was composed by Henry Hübchen .

Discography

Albums

  • 1978: Am Fenster ( Amiga , GDR, City in the Federal Republic of Germany and Greece ) (DE: Platin)
  • 1979: The tattooed (Amiga, GDR, in the Federal Republic of Germany and Greece City II )
  • 1980: Dreamer (Amiga, GDR, Dreamland abroad )
  • 1983: Under the Skin (Amiga)
  • 1984: Fire in the Ice (Amiga)
  • 1987: Casablanca (Amiga)
  • 1990: don't worry
  • 1997: smoke signals
  • 2002: At the window 2
  • 2004: silver lining
  • 2007: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (also as limited edition, 5-song live CD)
  • 2012: 40 Years City (The Concert) , (Sony Music)
  • 2013: Danke Engel (CD / DVD Unplugged + 5 new tracks)
  • 2017: The Blood So Loud (Rhingtön / Universal Music)
  • 2019: Candlelight Spectacle - Live in Saxony

Compilations

  • 1991: Rock aus Deutschland Ost Vol. 11 - City, The Successes 1977–1987 (compilation not authorized by City)
  • 1992: The Best of City (DE: Gold)
  • 1997: At the window (Platinum Edition)
  • 2003: The Christmas festival of rock music (Split-Best-Of with Keimzeit)
  • 2003: The King from Prenzlauer Berg (3-CD compilation)
  • 2004: Champion of all classes - Best (1977-90)
  • 2008: Das Beste (4-CD compilation unauthorized by City)
  • 2008: Play it again! The best of City (best of album including new tracks, remixes and video track)
  • 2012: City - The Original Albums , Hansa Amiga (Sony Music)
  • 2012: Forever young
  • 2015: Rock legends live , Puhdys + City + Karat

literature

Web links

Commons : City  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The barefoot drummer: City drummer Klaus Selmke has died. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 22, 2020, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 328. The overall ratings of the GDR annual hit parade consisted of the sum of the best placements in the hit parades DT Metronom , Beatkiste , Tip-Disko , DT64 and Tip-Parade together.
  3. ↑ Chart sources DE
  4. ↑ Christian Hentschel: You forgot the color film and other Ostrock stories . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-317-9 .
  5. ↑ ostbeat.de ( Memento of 28 December 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 3, 2014
  6. ↑ City drummer Klaus Selmke succumbs to cancer. nordkurier.de from May 22, 2020, accessed on May 22, 2020
  7. ↑ Appearance of the official website at the end of May 2020 ( Memento from May 23, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b Awards from the BVMI
City
Klaus Selmke • Fritz Puppel  • Toni Krahl  • Manfred Hennig • Georgi Gogow  •
Ingo Döring • Frank Pfeiffer • Andreas Pieper • Emil Bogdanow • Rüdiger Barton  • Gisbert Piatkowski


Studio albums

At the window (1978) • The tattooed one (1979) • Dreamer (1980) • Under the skin (1983) • Fire in the ice (1985) • Casablanca (1987) • Don't worry (1990) • Smoke signals (1997) • At the window ( Platinum Edition, 1997) • Am Fenster 2 (2002) • Silberstreif am Horizont (2004) • Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (2007) • Forever Young (2012) • Thank You Angel (2013)

Collaboration albums

Rock Music Christmas (2003)

Live albums

40 Years City - The Concert (2012)

Compilation albums

Rock from Germany East Vol. 11 - City (1991) • The Best of City (1992) • The King from Prenzlauer Berg (2003) • Master of all classes - Best (2004) • The best (2008) • Play it again! The Best of City (2008) • City - The Original Albums (2012) • Rock Legends (2014)