It is time
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| Studio album by Hannes Wader | ||||
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Publication |
August / September 1980 |
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| Label (s) | Plans - ARIS | |||
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
42:19 |
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Hannes Wader |
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Studio (s) |
St. Blasien Northeim recording studio |
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It's about time is an album by the singer and songwriter Hannes Wader from 1980.
meaning
The album was best known for the title track It's About Time , which became an anthem for the peace movement . Millions of people sang the song at demonstrations. There are also three ballads, two political and two biographical songs on this album .
The songs “Now I have to go” and “Looking back” deal with problems in interpersonal relationships. The other political songs are "Hafenmelodie" and "Emma Klein". “Hafenmelodie” is about solidarity in industrial action. "Emma Klein" is about how monopolies drive smaller shops into bankruptcy and destroy jobs by eliminating the middle class .
Special features / comments
- Guitarist Werner Lämmerhirt , who toured with the singer-songwriter in the 1970s, plays again on the album Es ist An der Zeit . Eleven years later, the album Nie mehr would come back to the final collaboration.
- Lydie Auvray ( accordion ) made her debut here with Hannes Wader. In the 1980s she was to belong to the band that accompanied the songwriter on his performances. This also included Reinhard Bärenz (guitar) and Hans Hartmann (bass).
- The song Encounter was already on Wader's debut album Hannes Wader singt… (1969). The song was translated into French by Reinhard Mey .
- The melody of the song It's About Time was written by Eric Bogle for his anti-war song No Man's Land (The Green Fields of France)
Track list
- Now I have to go - 4:55
- Emma Klein - 4:36
- Looking back - 2:50
- Reminder - 7:49
- Ballad of the Fish - 7:25
- Encounter - 3:45
- Harbor melody - 4:35
- It's time - 6:20
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Hannes Wader sings… (1969) | I had so much more planned (1971) | 7 songs (1972) | The Pied Piper (1974) | Low German songs (1974) | Hannes Wader: Folk singer (1975) | The Portrait (1975) | Little Testament (1976) | Hannes Wader sings workers' songs (1977) | Flea de Cologne (1977) | Hannes Wader sings Shanties (1978) | On the road again (1979) | The time has come (1980) | That nothing stays as it was (1982) | Not Just Me Alone (1983) | Embers on the Horizon (1985) | Love Songs (1986) | Until now (1987) | To Hamburg (1989) | Hannes Wader sings folk songs (1990) | Never Go Back (1991) | For so long "'62 - '92" (1992) | Looking back - The best of the 80s (1992) | 10 songs (1995) | Love, schnapps, death - Wader sings Bellman (1996) | I thought of you - Wader sings Schubert (1997) | Appearance: Hannes Wader (1998) | The Poet (1999) | The Rebel (1999) | The popular singer (1999) | What a Night (2001) | Wishes (2001) | Mey, Wader, Wecker - the concert (2003) | ... and times change (2004) | Wine for life - Hannes Wader reads Kurt Kusenberg (2004) | Year after year (2005) | Times adopted (2006) | New friends (2007) | No end in sight (with Konstantin Wecker) (2010) | Close to it (2012) | Old Friends in Concert (Live-CD with Allan Taylor) (2013) | Despite all this - songs from 50 years 1962–2012 (2013) | Sing (2015) | Hannes Wader Live (live double CD) (2015) | Take care! (2018)