You are like a song

You are like a song
Studio album by Peter Maffay
Publication (s)	1971
Label (s)	Teldec
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Bat
Title (number)	12
running time	44 min, 28 sec
occupation	Vocals, guitar: Peter Maffay
production	Michael Kunze
chronology For the girl I love (1970) You are like a song Omen (1973)

You're like a song is the second studio album by the German hit and rock musician Peter Maffay , released in 1971.

Emergence

While Peter Maffay, under the impression of the independent film Easy Rider (1969), saw himself more and more as a rocker and began to ride a motorcycle privately, Michael Kunze built him more and more to become a hit star. This included appearances with half or full playback in the popular programs ZDF Hitparade or Ilja Richter's Disco . The Bravo however, portrayed him in a picture story as "wild rocker". Maffay was torn inside and could not yet escape the influence of Kunze.

For the second album he worked again with the composers Christian Bruhn and Wolfgang Rödelberger . Through Bill Shepherd, an arranger, Maffay and Kunze secured the rights to transfer three Bee Gees titles into German. Kunze and Maffay composed together from When Do I the theme song You're like a song . From If I Were the Sky was I am your friend and Mando Bay was translated into German.

Track list

1. You're like a song (When Do I) ( Barry Gibb ) - 5:03
2. Teenager Star ( Christian Bruhn ) - 3:45
3. All the Girls in the World ( Peter Maffay ) - 2:40
4. Our Little House (Maffay) - 3:16
5. My machine (Bruhn) - 4:39
6. I am your friend (If I Were the Sky) (Gibb) - 3:01
7. Which star is above us? (Maffay) - 4:11
8. I'm not giving up (Bruhn) - 2:40
9. I love all of that about you (Bruhn) - 3:02
10. Mando Bay (Gibb) - 4:32
11. Hatred and Love (Bruhn) - 3:02
12. I want to live with you ( Wolfgang Rödelberger ) - 4:37

A CD version was released on June 7, 1993.

success

Like For the Girl I Love , Maffay's second album was only moderately successful. The single Which Star Is Above Us? only ranked 46th in the single charts. Maffay's record company Teldec complained to Kunze about the failure of the album. As a consequence, Kunze Maffay put the manager Arnie Harris aside.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Edmund Hartsch: Maffay. On the way to myself . C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01029-7 , pp. 73 f .
2. ↑ You're like a song on musicline.de
3. ↑ The Transylvanian boy . In: Oldie Market . No. 10 , 2005, pp. 10 ( funwithmusic.de [PDF]).