Golden Rider (song)

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Golden rider
Joachim Witt
publication December 1980 (album)
May 1981 (single)
length 4:30
Genre (s) New Deutsche Welle , Pop
Author (s) Joachim Witt
album Silver look

Goldener Reiter is a song by the Neue Deutsche Welle by Joachim Witt . It was released on his first solo album Silberblick in 1980 and was released as a single in May 1981.

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In the song, Witt slips into the role of a person who has apparently been admitted to a psychiatric clinic because of severe schizophrenia . In May 2014, Witt stated in a radio interview that the inspiration for the song came from the 1979 film The Electric Rider , in which the main character wears a glowing yellow uniform.

In Completely detached - 40 Years of the New German Wave from Sat.1 in 2016 , Witt said that the song describes a criticism of capitalism ( “Protest song against the rampant capitalism with all its hypocrisy and this is how the text was conceived and created.” ). He wrote the song with English lyrics as a member of the Duesenberg band , but withheld the song and finally released it in German on his solo album Silberblick .

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Singles
  DE 2 12/14/1981 (29 weeks)

The song, which initially went unnoticed when it was released in 1980, was played on the popular Musikladen show in 1981 ; it was then able to place itself in the German single charts on December 14, 1981 and stayed there for a total of 29 weeks. The highest ranking was position two. Due to the great success of Goldener Reiter , the album Silberblick entered the Top 10 immediately after its release in Germany and sold more than 300,000 times by the end of 1981.

Other versions

The song was re-enacted by the Schröders , among others . Witt liked the cover version so much that he appeared in 1997 in the opening act for the Schröders. In addition, the melody and rhyme scheme of the Fantastischen Vier are taken up in the piece Troy . Other versions come from the punk bands Rawside and Falling Brieftauben .

In 1995 Witt published a Eurodance version under the title Golden Raver , which was created in collaboration with Komakino . In 2008, on the occasion of the Summer Olympics in Beijing , Witt recorded a version with the title We are the golden riders together with the German national equestrian team . Michelle Leonard released the cover version of Golden Rider in 2009 . Nino de Angelo re-recorded the song in 2014.

In 2020 the song was covered by the NDH band Die Kreatur .

Trivia

Witt comments on the rumor that the song refers to the Theodor-Körner-Kaserne in Lüneburg (with a golden rider in the coat of arms): "One of the most persistent rumors is the so-called 'barracks rumor'.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Witt in an interview with Stephan Hensel. NDR 90.3 , May 5, 2014. ( Online version ( Memento from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 6, 2014.)
  2. ↑ sat1.de: Completely detached - 40 years of the Neue Deutsche Welle (see Chapter 3) (December 7, 2016)
  3. ↑ Charts DE
  4. ↑ Nino de Angelo: This is his version of the NDW hit from the “Golden Rider”. In: klatsch-tratsch.de. November 19, 2014, accessed December 3, 2014 .
  5. ↑ joachimwitt.com