Cucumber troop
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Gurkentruppe is the name of a four-member German fun band that made a name for itself with football songs from 2006, especially in the Cologne area . The quartet became known nationwide with the hit Who has nothing to celebrate on the last match day? , a humorous song on the German Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich .
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The producers behind the band are Michael Rötgens and Hartmut Wessling, who previously had a chart success with Tim Toupet . With the Gurkentruppe they are following the pattern of re-recording well-known foreign-language hits with German-language texts related to football, which are then used in the stadiums of the Bundesliga. This is how cover versions of Bob Marley ( I Shot the Schirie ), AC / DC ( Fear of the Ball ) and Robbie Williams ( More than just a game ) came about .
The four musicians landed their greatest success in the early summer of 2007 with the support of 11-year-old Jan-Niklas Teutenberg from Meschede . On the sidelines of a Bundesliga game, the young FC Schalke 04 fan had recorded a video in a fan box in which he spoke to the tune of Simon & Garfunkel's El Condor Pasa (If I Could) about the unsatisfactory season of the reigning German champions FC Bayern Munich made fun of. His clip Who has nothing to celebrate on the last day of the game? - FC Bayern FC Bayern - nothing to celebrate! was first shown on the video cube in the interior of the Veltins-Arena and then began to spread via the Internet platform YouTube . This aroused the attention of the media and Teutenberg was even in the current sport studio of the ZDF invited.
The Gurkentruppe engaged Teutenberg for a joint recording and the song was signed by the record label Universal Music . In May 2007 it entered the German single charts.
During the European Championship 2008 , the band landed another hit with a football-related adaptation of the title Ein Stern , originally by Nik P.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gurkentruppe in the German charts (accessed on August 13, 2009)
