Hell's Angels®
| Hell's Angels® | |
|---|---|
| Ben Becker & The Zero Tolerance Band | |
| publication | 2001 |
| length | 5:24 |
| Genre (s) | Rock , recitation |
| text | Ben Becker |
| music |
Ulrik Spies Jacki Engelken |
| Publisher (s) | Universal Publishing / Edition Dörte Becker / Sony BMG ufa |
| album | We take off |
Hell's Angels® is a song by Ben Becker & The Zero Tolerance Band. It was released in 2001 on the album Wir heben .
History of origin
Ben Becker has been friends with the rock club Hells Angels since he shot an episode of Tatort in Stuttgart . At a party in a Stuttgart hotel, Becker celebrated with them until the early hours of the morning. In the end he and were Prospect of the club alone devoted at the bar. Ben Becker him with some bystanders musicians improvised song that Becker line of text I wish to be a Hells Angel (dt .: "I wish I were a Hells Angel ”) stuck in the memory. He wrote it down and arranged for his second music album We lift off a whole song around this line.
A Registered Trademark (®) has been added to the title. The ® refers to the club name, which is registered as a registered trademark in the United States . Contrary to the official spelling, the name of the rocker club is marked with an apostrophe .
The song was recorded in 2001 in the Skyline Studios in Düsseldorf. Xaver Naudascher and Becker's band members Ulrik Spies and Jacki Engelken produced the song. The slide guitar was recorded by Stephan Creutzburg . The song was released as the eighth track on the album Wir heben .
Text and style of music
The song is introduced by engine noise. In a very calm tone, accompanied by a slide guitar , Ben Becker recites the individual lines of text. This includes the English verse
"My heart was made in heaven /
my brains were cooked in hell /
while i'm here /
while i'm inbetween /
i'd love to be a /
hells angel"
"My heart was made in heaven /
my brain was sizzling in hell /
while I'm here /
while I'm in between /
I would like to be a
Hells Angel"
In the rest of the text, the first-person narrator asks for a Hells Angel's chain, jacket and habit and explains in pathetic words that he would like to be like him. The lines of text "wild and dangerous / and know what love is / I would like to be a Hells Angel / I would like to be like you" are repeated several times.
reception
Because of his participation in a 70-minute film titled 81 - The Other World , which promotes the Hells Angel, Ben Becker has been criticized by the media because of the song. It was even speculated that Becker was a member of the rocker club. Becker described these speculations as nonsense in an official statement. However, he admits to be fascinated by the club, which he wanted to express with the song. His fascination is comparable to that of small children who think pirates are great.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Denise Redder: "... the epitome of freedom on two wheels" . In: Bikers News . No. 360 , April 2012, p. 147 .
- ↑ a b Hell’s Angels®. (No longer available online.) Ben Becker official website, archived from the original on April 21, 2012 ; Retrieved March 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ben Becker: Hell's Angels® on the album We take off. Sony BMG 2001.
- ↑ Thomas Hirschbiegel: Ben Becker and the Hells Angels. In: Berliner Morgenpost . April 11, 2011, accessed March 29, 2012 .
- ↑ Downplaying: media strategy of the Hells Angels, from minute 4:40 ( memento from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ NDR 45 minutes, broadcast date October 10, 2011 ( memento of October 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ben Becker: Advertisement for Hells Angels film. In: Berliner Zeitung.
- ↑ Ralf Weule: Ben Becker on MOPO: "I'm a little girl". In: Berliner Morgenpost. April 15, 2011, accessed March 29, 2012 .
