Yeah (album)

Yes / Yes
Studio album by Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Publication (s)	March 19, 1992
Label (s)	WEA Records
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	14th
running time	58:34 min
production	Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Studio (s)	Metropolis Studio, London Can Studio, Weilerswist
chronology Live (1990) Yes / Yes Monkey Theater (1994)
Single releases January 27, 1992 war June 1, 1992 Rosi (men are so weak) 5th October 1992 Stand up

Jaja is the 13th studio album by Marius Müller-Westernhagen . It was released on March 19, 1992 by WEA Records and reached number one in the German charts.

background

After the success of Halleluja , the subsequent tour in front of around 500,000 spectators and the recording of the concert on December 20, 1989 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle for the double album Live , from which the single Freiheit was released in October 1990 , Westernhagen withdrew from the public .

He chose the Metropolis studio in the London borough of Chiswick to record the album and produced it himself without any support. The British rock band Queen recorded their album Innuendo in this studio, which Gary Langan co-founded . The background vocals, in which his wife Romney, Madeleine Lang and Tommy Engel , Ernst Stoklosa and Willy Schnitzler von den Bläck Fööss were also involved, was recorded by Dieter Krauthausen in the Can studio in Weilerswist . As a rhythm group in London again Charlie T. (Manfred Terstappen) played on drums and Raoul Walton on bass. Helmut Zerlett on Hammond organ and Jay Stapley on guitar complete Westernhagen's band. Additional studio musicians were used for some tracks, such as saxophonist Mel Collins (for war and stand up ), pianist Pete Wingfield ( war and don't turn around ) and percussionists Gary Wallis ( Charlie , Our Father , Negro ) and Martin Ditcham belonged. The Kick Horns were hired for wind sections. On the album, Westernhagen puts "blues mood and unretouched rock 'n' roll in the foreground".

There were more than 500,000 pre-orders for the album Jaja ; the album was as good as sold out within a few hours on the day of release. Following the release of the album, Westernhagen and his band went on a sold-out tour that kept the album in the German MediaControl charts for almost a year. The album, which was awarded two platinum records for more than a million records sold, brought Westernhagen to the Austrian and Swiss charts for the first time.

Track list

#	title	length
1.	war	3:53
2.	Do not turn around	6:22
3.	We'll be the same	3:37
4th	Charlie	4:09
5.	Stand up	4:29
6th	Our father	4:46
7th	Come into my arms	3:54
8th.	Rosi (men are so weak)	4:37
9.	Negroes	4:02
10.	You're nasty	5:57
11.	I want to know	3:24
12.	love	4:04
13.	Metropolis Blues	3:14
14th	On a lonely island	3:09

reception

The Musikexpress found that Westernhagen had "trashed the entire field of competition for German-language productions this year" with the album. Furthermore, the reviewer calls the album a "cross between dreamlike, light-footed ear piercing melodies and heavy rock 'n' roll". A contribution from the Sueddeutsche Zeitung ", according to German rock and grönemeyert it appalling".

Chart success

year	title	Chart positions					annotation
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1992	Yes / Yes	1 (49) Apr 6, 1992	12 (4) May 24, 1992	24 (9) Apr. 19, 1992	-	-	Double platinum in Germany

See also

• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.charts.de
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Christian Graf and Burghard Rausch: Rockmusiklexikon . Supplemented new edition edition. Europe / band 2 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-12388-7 . , P. 910
3. ↑ The End of Idols , article in Der Spiegel magazine , issue 14/1992, accessed on July 19, 2012.
4. ^ Federal Association of the Music Industry - gold / platinum database. In: musikindustrie.de. Bundesverband Musikindustrie eV, accessed on July 20, 2012 (search term: Westernhagen). 
5. ↑ Yes, yes in the German album charts. (No longer available online.) In: Musicline.de. PhonoNet GmbH, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 20, 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.  
6. ↑ Yes, yes in the Austrian hit parade. In: austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed July 20, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Yes, yes in the Swiss hit parade. In: hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed August 27, 2009 .