Their children
| Their children | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Nuremberg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | German rock , Krautrock |
| founding | 1969 |
| resolution | 1973 |
| Website | www.ihrekinder.com |
| Last occupation | |
Guitar, bass, mandolin, percussion, vocals |
Ernst Schultz |
Organ, piano, guitar, vocals |
Sonny Hennig |
Flute, violin, organ, piano, percussion, vocals |
Georg Meyer |
Guitar, trombone |
Muck Groh |
Bass, guitar, piano, organ, saxophone, vocals |
Tommi Roeder |
Drums, percussion, guitar |
Olders Frenzel |
Your children was a German rock band from the late 1960s and especially the early 1970s from Nuremberg . She is considered a pioneer of German-language rock music. It is attributed to the Krautrock . However, their music included elements from classical rock, folk and jazz rock.
founding
The original line-up of Ihr Kinder emerged from two different Nuremberg bands that originally sang exclusively in English: On the one hand there was the group Jonah & The Whales , which was founded in Nuremberg in the mid-1960s and released their single (" It's Great ", 1966) brought about some local fame. Members of Jonah & The Whales were: Sonny Hennig (vocals, piano), Günter Gast (bass), Wolfram Stumm (1st guitar), Ernst Schultz (2nd guitar) and Roland Multhaupt (drums). The group was financed by Jonas Porst , son of the entrepreneur Hansheinz Porst . Despite great local popularity and a record release, Jonah & The Whales broke up in the late sixties.
In 1968 Hennig and Porst founded a new group consisting of Hennig, Muck Groh (guitar), Karl Mack (bass), Peter Schmidt (drums) and Georg Meyer (flute, vocals). Porst also appeared here as a financier and producer. The aim of the band was to develop rock music in the German language. This group emerged again from the formation Empire State Band , whose repertoire consisted of common rhythm and blues pieces, which the group played primarily in clubs that were visited by American soldiers.
With the first LP of the same name, the band renamed their children in 1969 . Mack had now been replaced by Walter "Walti" Schneider on bass. Schmidt was replaced on drums by Roland "Olders" Frenzel.
When the first LP was released, your children consisted of the following members: Muck Groh, Sonny Hennig (born March 4, 1946 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † August 18, 2019 in Nuremberg ), Georg Meyer, Walter “Walti” Schneider (born June 9 , 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany ) 1950 in Nuremberg; † February 28, 2013), Olders Frenzel (born March 19, 1950 in Trettau ) and Claudia Näke, who performed under the stage name "Judith Brigger".
Ernst Schultz and Tommi Roeder (born November 4, 1950 in Bad Cannstatt ) joined them later.
history
When they were first published in 1969, your children decided to combine songs with exclusively German lyrics with rock music. Because of the lack of acceptance by record companies - rock music was then reserved exclusively for music groups singing in English - they produced their first LP Ihr Kinder themselves (supported by Jonas Porst). Since this initiative saved production costs, they got a record deal, but the LP flopped. In 1970 she signed the newly founded Munich record company Kuckuck and produced the album Empty Hands with them (not without making an English-language version for all songs to be on the safe side). The other albums 004, Werdohl and Beginning without End were released on this label until they were dissolved in 1973 .
One of the career highlights for your children was their appearance on the Saturday evening television show Wünsch Dir was presented by Dietmar Schönherr and Vivi Bach . The band appeared in the so-called show block of the program, which was broadcast on December 19, 1970 from the Rhein-Main-Halle in Wiesbaden . There the group presented their songs "Empty hands" and "People like sand on the sea" alternately with the pop band Bee Gees , which, according to Sonny Henning, led to angry audience protests.
Before the release of Empty Hands , there was a legal dispute between Jonas Porst and Sonny Hennig over the use of the band name your children .
The band was known for their complex but also committed texts on topics such as drug abuse, apartheid, imprisonment, war victims, etc.
In Star Szene '77 you can finally read:
“… The pioneering work the group did back then becomes clear when you see the success of Udo Lindenberg. "Your children" were the first German group that played rock and produced German lyrics ... "
Between 1982 and 1984 your children reunited with the original line-up. This resulted in the LPs live '82 and today. Subsequent attempts to gain footing with changing musicians failed. In 2000 they came together again for a concert and at the Nuremberg Bardentreffen with all previous members of the band in Nuremberg.
The guitarist Muck Groh founded the jazz rock band Aera after leaving and has been playing with his band Neue Aera since 2007 .
Failed collaboration with Klaus Kinski
In his memoirs, Ihr Kinder -Frontmann Sonny Hennig describes in detail his encounter with actor Klaus Kinski , which is said to have happened in Munich at the end of 1971: Kinski had planned Jesus Christ the Redeemer at that time in preparation for his stage program , as well as being inspired by the New Testament Performing musical interludes in texts. By chance, Kinski came across the music from your children and Hennig's solo album Tear Gas and was immediately enthusiastic. In the following, Kinski worked intensively on 16 songs in a Munich discotheque together with Hennig and other musicians, who also worked on tear gas as studio musicians and are partly composed of musicians from their children . Due to Kinski's lack of musicality and lack of preparation time, the collaboration ultimately failed.
Meaning for German rock
Their children are one of the first rock groups to sing exclusively in German , along with Ton Steine Schherd. Big names like Udo Lindenberg are said to have explicitly cited their children as role models.
Wolfgang Niedecken , singer from BAP , sees in your children today the pioneers of German rock: "The first ones I saw were your children , who were the pioneers when it came to German-language rock music."
Sonny Hennig , founding member and long-time mouthpiece of your children , writes in his memoirs about the initial difficulties in making rock music in German: "If you had sung in English for years like me, it was like a culture shock to sing German. I was with them first attempts so unsettled that I sent the rest of the band out of the rehearsal room. I'll explain it this way - it's a lot easier to sing 'Baby please don't go' than 'Honey please don't leave me' ".
Awards
In October 2014, the band was awarded the IHK culture prize for literature from the Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Middle Franconia for their pioneering work in combining demanding German texts with rock music.
Discography
Albums
| year | Title music label |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Your children Philips 844,393 PY |
First release: 1969 studio album |
| 1970 | Empty Hands Empty Hands (English Version) Kuckuck 2375001 / Polydor 2371165 |
First release: 1970 studio album |
| 2375004 Cuckoo 2375004 |
First release: 1970 studio album |
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| 1971 | Werdohl cuckoo 2375013 |
First release: 1971 studio album |
| 1972 | Beginning without end cuckoo 2375016 |
First release: 1972 studio album |
| Pop History Vol. 24 Polydor 2634 018 |
First published: 1972 compilation |
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| 1975 | The Greatest Rock Sensation carousel 2415 335 |
First published: 1975 compilation |
| 1978 | Meistersinger & your children Meistersinger music production 01001 |
First release: 1978 studio album; as Meistersinger & your children |
| 1979 | The ride to the moon Meistersinger Musikproduktion 01004 |
First release: 1979 studio album; as Meistersinger & your children |
| 1982 | Live '82 Ear Today OMM 560.001 |
First release: 1982 live album |
| 1984 | Today Virgin Records 206 678 |
First release: 1984 studio album |
Singles
| year | Title album |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | It's great single track |
First published: April 1966 as Jonah and The Whales |
| 1970 | Help me empty hands |
First release: 1970 promo single |
| 1971 | The gray city of Werdohl |
First published: 1971 |
| Spider in the Web Pop History Vol. 24 |
First published: 1971 | |
| Assembly line song beginning without end |
First published: 1971 | |
| The Dice / God's Own Land Empty Hands / Single-Track |
First release: 1971 split single with Eternity |
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| 1984 | Calendar sheet today |
First published: 1984 |
swell
- Star scene '77 . Taunusstein publishing company for reference works 1977.
- Asbjornsen, Dag Erik: Cosmic Dreams At Play. A guide to German progressive and electric rock , Borderline Productions, Glasgow 1996.
- Hennig, Sonny: Rockmann's stories. The German rock legend remembers ... , RSI Rainer Schimmank Information, 1st edition, Nuremberg 2014.
- Schneider, Frank Apunkt: German pop shut up! For an aesthetic of tension , Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of Ernst Schultz , accessed on February 14, 2014
- ^ Entry in the “Krautrock Music Circus” , accessed on February 12, 2014
- ↑ Henning, Sonny: Rockmann's stories. The German rock legend remembers ... 1st edition. RSI, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045390-8 , p. 46 .
- ↑ Interview with Sonny Hennig in "Musikexpress" 05/72
- ^ Homepage of Muck Groh
- ↑ Hennig, Sonny: Rockmann's stories. The German rock legend remembers. 1st edition. RSI, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045390-8 , p. 63-85 .
- ^ Grandfathers of German rock at Einestages von Spiegel Online. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
- ↑ eclipsed feature: The history of German rock. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .
- ↑ eclipsed Rock Magazin: From Krautrock to German Rock . No. 186 (12-2016 / 01-2017) .
- ↑ Hennig, Sonny: Rockmann's stories. The German rock legend remembers. 1st edition. RSI, Nuremberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045390-8 , p. 44 .
- ↑ Article in the IHK magazine WiM - Economy in Middle Franconia , accessed on September 19, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e f g your children. rateyourmusic.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Your children - Empty Hands. discogs.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Your Children - Pop History Vol.24. discogs.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Your Children - The Greatest Rock Sensation. discogs.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Meistersinger & Your Children - Meistersinger & Your Children. discogs.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Meistersinger & Your Children - The Journey to the Moon. discogs.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Jonah And The Whales - It's Great / It Ain't Me Babe. 45cat.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e Your Children's Discography. 45cat.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Your children / Eternity (32) - The Dice / God's Own Land. discogs.com, accessed November 26, 2019 .