Clowns & Heroes
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
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- 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Lotto King Karl & Pape (December 2010) accessed on radiohamburg.de on May 29, 2014
- ^ Large station for Lotto King Karl and Carsten Pape (June 20, 2011) accessed on Abendblatt.de on May 29, 2014
- ↑ Chart discography albums
- ↑ Chart discography Singles
- ↑ Awards: DE
Web links
- Clowns & Heroes at Allmusic (English)
- Clowns & Helden at Discogs (English)