Life is cruel
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September 9, 1991 |
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12 |
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Life is cruel is the first album by the Leipzig band Die Prinzen and was released on September 9, 1991.
background
After Tobias Künzel had joined the Prinzen predecessor band Herzbuben and the five called themselves Die Prinzen from now on , the single Gabi and Klaus was released in May 1991 . In September of the same year, the group's debut album followed, produced by Annette Humpe .
With their debut album, the five singers successively achieved the gold record for 250,000 albums sold, the platinum record (500,000), triple gold (750,000) and finally double platinum for 1.2 million records .
The princes also released an a cappella version of this album. The rapper Bass Sultan Hengzt covered the title Millionaire in 2006 , in the same year the dance project Groove Coverage brought out a version of Man in the Moon with On the Radio .
Track list
- Millionaire - 2:36 (Music / Text: Sebastian Krumbiegel )
- Man in the Moon - 3:14 (Music / Text: Tobias Künzel )
- Gabi and Klaus - 3:23 (music / text: Krumbiegel)
- Who is the guy - 3:15 (music / text: Annette Humpe , Künzel)
- Operations Director - 2:48 (Music / Text: Krumbiegel)
- I want you - 3:53 (Music / Text: Humpe, Krumbiegel)
- Blaues Blut - 3:15 (Music: Humpe / Text: Humpe, Krumbiegel, Künzel)
- Mein Fahrrad - 2:25 (Music: Krumbiegel / Text: Krumbiegel, Künzel)
- The birds - 3:57 (music: Krumbiegel, Wolfgang Lenk / text: Krumbiegel)
- Forty Years - 2:35 (Music / Text: Krumbiegel, Künzel)
- My best friend - 2:34 (Music / Text: Krumbiegel)
- Tschüssi - Make it good - 0:15 (Music / Text: Krumbiegel)
Charts
album
year | title | Chart positions | ||
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DE | AT | CH | ||
1991 | Life is cruel | 5 | 39 | 20th |
Singles
year | title | Chart positions | ||
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DE | AT | CH | ||
1991 | Gabi and Klaus | 24 | - | 9 |
1991 | millionaire | 36 | 29 | 11 |
1991 | who is this guy | - | - | - |
1992 | man in the Moon | 30th | - | - |
1992 | My bicycle | 68 | - | - |
Web links
- Life is cruel at musicline.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Band biography. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 16, 2009 ; Retrieved May 10, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Discography of the Princes . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 17, 2009 ; Retrieved May 10, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH