Clowns & Heroes

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Clowns & Helden were a German rock band from Hamburg that was active between 1985 and 1989 .

The band members were Carsten Pape (vocals and lyrics), Bernd Westermann (keyboard), Wolfgang Jensen (vocals), Volker Radow (bass), "Elle" Böndel (drums), Martin Fischbach (guitar and vocals) and Valeri Dobrev (drums) . They are best known today for their hit I love you . The band name comes from Carsten Pape's imagination and has primarily to do with the fact that Clowns & Heroes was conceived as a rock theater from the start.

history

Clowns & Heroes emerged from the band ZULU, which performed in youth centers and gave solidarity concerts for citizens' initiatives, for example against the port expansion in Hamburg- Altenwerder . At first they were only known regionally, around Lüneburg and the Süderelbe region . With their single I love you and through appearances in the WDR show So isses by Jürgen von der Lippe , they achieved greater awareness. I love you reached number four in the German charts and reached gold status . The song originally appeared in 1986 and began accordingly with the line "We have 86 ...". Since the song only appeared in the charts in 1987, the song was re-recorded with the line “We have 87 ...” updated.

I love you remained the only successful single. In 1987 the band released the album Clowns & Heroes. The 1988 album Willkommen in West-Poind-Blanc was a flop. Then the band broke up. Carsten Pape was active in the 1990s in the bands Vopá (1993) and Roh (1996-2000). Pape is friends with Lotto King Karl , has released two albums with him, Friends (2005) and Die Große Liebe (2009), and performs with him.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Of affirmed feelings and other coldness
  DE 17th 01/26/1987 (14 weeks)
Singles
I love you
  DE 4th 
gold
gold
01/12/1987 (20 weeks)
  AT 11 04/01/1987 (16 weeks)
Albums
  • 1986: Of affirmed feelings and other coldness
  • 1987: Clowns & Heroes
  • 1988: Welcome to West-Poind-Blanc
Singles and EPs
  • 1986: I love you
  • 1986: Better
  • 1986: We are wide awake (Promo)
  • 1987: The Truth
  • 1987: Clowns & Heroes (AMIGA EP)
  • 1988: Since you've been back
  • 1988: Deep inside of me
  • 1988: trilogy

swell

  1. ↑ Former Sounds author Rainer Jogschies described this development in detail in the Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt (No. 11 of March 15, 1987): How do you make a career with pop? - Clowns und Helden, a band from Hamburg-Harburg, currently sells most of the records , p. 27
  2. ↑ Lotto King Karl & Pape (December 2010) accessed on radiohamburg.de on May 29, 2014
  3. ^ Large station for Lotto King Karl and Carsten Pape (June 20, 2011) accessed on Abendblatt.de on May 29, 2014
  4. ↑ Chart discography albums
  5. ↑ Chart discography Singles
  6. ↑ Awards: DE

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