Express (band)

express
	General information
Genre (s)	skirt
founding	1972
resolution	1989
Founding members
Keyboard , violin , saxophone , vocals	Ernst Ernie Lemke
Guitar , percussion	Heinz Zilliges
bass	Peter Caraway
Drums	Rainer Franz
former members
singing	Peter Tschernig
Guitar, vocals	Peter Berliner
singing	Thomas Wagner
Drums	Klaus Neumayer
singing	Rainer Nawrath
Guitar, vocals	Lutz Forstbauer
bass	Wolf Dieter Binge
guitar	Axel R. Spatt
bass	Bobby Goerke
guitar	Heinz examiner

Express , sometimes called Express , was a German rock band from East Berlin .

history

The band was founded in 1972 as an amateur band . She gained first notoriety through her appearances at the Xth World Festival of Youth and Students in 1973 in East Berlin. At the 1974 Workers' Festival in Erfurt , the band was awarded a gold medal and the special prize for successful original compositions. In the same year she received the title of “Excellent Amateur Dance Orchestra”.

In the mid-1970s, the band achieved their greatest success. Titles like Ein Wigwam are in Babelsberg , Bedtime , Petrus turn off the sun , Sometimes two lives meet and When musicians drive home, they made it to the top of the charts on GDR radio . The first single was produced and appearances on the television programs Schlagerstudio and around followed. In 1976 the band completed their first international tour on the Druzhba route to the Soviet Union . At the beginning of August 1976 Express represented the GDR together with the band Magdeburg at the Popsession '76 in Sopot . In the 1980s, Express stayed in the Czechoslovakia very often and became one of the most successful foreign rock bands there.

The head of the band, which became a professional formation in 1975, was Ernst Ernie Lemke. He remained the only constant in the frequently changing line-up. Lemke wrote the music; the texts were mainly from Kurt Demmler . The sound of the band changed as the band changed. While the pieces were initially characterized by song-like rock music, the country influence could not be ignored in 1977 with the use of a violin (Lemke) and the new singer Peter Tschernig . In 1978 Tschernig started a solo career as a country musician. After Rainer Nawrath, Lutz Forstbauer and Wolf Dieter Binge joined the band in the same year , the sound , which was based on the Scorpions , Bryan Adams and Europe , became significantly harder. In the course of the change in the GDR, the band broke up.

Discography

Singles

1976: When musicians drive home / Petrus turn off the sun ( Amiga )
1976: A wigwam is in Babelsberg / Sometimes two lives meet (Amiga)
1977: Darling, I'll eat you for breakfast / She was a big girl (Amiga)
1978: Sleep well Rosemarie / I have 'at home' ...
1982: My friend (Rainer Nawrath) / By my side (Express) (Supraphon)
1983: I'm afraid / The Poet (Supraphon)

CDs

2006: Express - The big hits (Amiga / BMG)

Other titles published on samplers

1973: Please give me a little more time and there are still people on: Exams in music (Amiga)

1973: Living to be human on Hello No. 8 (Amiga)

1976: A wigwam in Babelsberg is on Non Stop Beat (Amiga)

1976: A wigwam is on Box 2 / '76 (Amiga) in Babelsberg
1976: Bedtime on Hello '76 (Amiga)
1977: When musicians drive home at Beat Party (Amiga)
1978: Sleep well Rosemarie on 20 original beat hits (Amiga)
1978: After Havana at a festival in Havana (Amiga)
1979: Take the night in your hands on Schlager Sterne 3 / '79 (Amiga)
1996: Off for an evening on Beatkiste 4 (Barbarossa)
1996: When someone goes on Beatkiste 6 (Barbarossa)

1996: Roll me back into the river on Beatkiste 7 (Barbarossa)

1999: A wigwam is in Babelsberg on A wigwam is in Babelsberg (All Score Media)

literature

HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon . Song of Time , Berlin 1977.
Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 .

Web links

Portrait at deutsche-mugge.de
Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)
Portrait at ostmusik.de ( Memento from January 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)

Individual evidence

^ Beat Lexicon, page 94
↑ Melody and Rhythm , Issue 10/1976, Berlin (East)
↑ Melody and Rhythm, Issue 5/1977, Berlin (East)

[1] Beat Lexicon, page 94

[2] Melody and Rhythm , Issue 10/1976, Berlin (East)

[3] Melody and Rhythm, Issue 5/1977, Berlin (East)