Destroy what destroys you
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| Music album from clay stones shards | ||||
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1970 |
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20th August 1970 |
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| Label (s) | TP 1001 | |||
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Format (s) |
7 ″ |
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" Agitrock " |
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Ralph Möbius , Gert Möbius |
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Studio (s) |
Klaus Freudigmann, Berlin |
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Destroy what destroys you is a 1969 by Rio Reiser (music) and Norbert Krause (text) written song in 1970 by the German political rock band One Ton as a single and in 1971 their debut album me so dirty Why is published became.
The slogan “Break what makes you broken” became known to the German-speaking autonomous community , for example in the squatter movement and in neo-anarchist circles, following the student movement of the 1960s .
backgrounds
The song was originally written in 1969 for the play Rita and Paul of the Hoffmanns Comic Teater theater group . It followed a scene in which the title hero, the young worker Paul, saw a comment by the conservative journalist Matthias Walden (1927–1984) on television and threw the television on the floor in anger.
The text was written by Norbert Krause, a member of Hoffmann's Comic Teater, inspired by a text by Rio Reiser which reads: "Bombs are falling / Tanks are rolling / Soldiers dying / Men are crying / It is a good time ...". This, in turn, was inspired by Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues . In 1970 the later Schherd members split off from Hoffmanns Comic Teater with the apprentice collective Rote Steine; the first piece of the red stones was also entitled Power broken what makes you broken .
In the middle of 1970, the ARD broadcast a documentary entitled Five Fingers Are A Fist about the goals of the APO , which was underlaid with songs by the then nameless music group the Rote Steine, including Power broken what breaks you and which is also already on Rita and Paul used the title We Strike . Viewers then called the station to find out where they could buy this music. Then RPS Lanrue , Rio Reiser, Wolfgang Seidel and Kai Sichtermann , who now called themselves “Ton Steine Scherben”, recorded a single with these two songs, which sold over 6000 times by Christmas 1970.
Stage fire in 1970
When the band performed at the Love and Peace Festival on Fehmarn on September 6, 1970 , they played Macht kaputt, which destroys you as the third and last song, and the stage (on which Jimi Hendrix had given his last concert shortly before ) was suddenly on fire, so that the rock festival had to be canceled. Even if it was probably not the band who was responsible for the fire, but tour assistants from other bands who were angry because the organizers had run away with the day's box office, it was still said that the broken pieces had burned down the stage, something in the Scene found recognition. Suddenly her name was famous there.
In 1971 the song appeared on the album Why am I so dirty? . Even later, this song was one of the most famous songs by Ton Steine Scherben , with which they were also strongly identified. The title soon became a motto of the spontaneous movement and the 1968 movement . It was and can be read to this day in countless graffiti and on leaflets .
relation
The song repairs what breaks you! (2007) of the album of the same name by the songwriter Tommy Finke refers to the original title and Rio Reiser, whose piece Stiller Raum is also alluded to in the text. (“There is still embers in the ashes!”) The song Destroy What Destroys You by the German thrash metal band Kreator from 2008 also refers to power broken, what breaks you . The song was released in 2008 on the album Hordes of Chaos .
In numerous songs that were published later, the phrase “Macht kaputt, what makes you broken!” Is used, for example by Max Herre and Samy Deluxe in their rap piece “Einstürzen Neubauen”, in the song “After the demo it's downhill” by Casper and in the song “ Blow your fist ”by Casper and Prince Pi.
literature
- Kai Sichtermann, Jens Johler , Christian Stahl: No power for nobody. The history of the clay stones shards . Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2003, especially pp. 20, 22, 32.
Web links
- Lyrics with guitar fingerings
- Article in the indiepedia
- Video recording of the song, played by clay stones shards on youtube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rio Reiser, Hannes Eyber: King of Germany . Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04860-5 , p. 187.
- ^ A play on words from " Agitprop " and " Acidrock ", according to Rio Reiser: King of Germany. Memories of clay, stones, shards and more . Cologne 1994/2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04860-5 , p. 239.
- ↑ Lothar Binger: In the beginning there was Hoffmann's Comic Teater. In: Text from the exhibition “Clay stones shards” in the Kreuzberg Museum (Berlin) as part of the exhibition “History is made! Berlin am Kottbusser Tor “in February 2003. Rio Reiser: Article archive Frank Bröker, 2003, archived from the original on August 29, 2005 ; Retrieved July 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Autobiography King of Germany / Rio Reiser / Hannes Eyber
- ↑ "Break what breaks you" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1970 ( online ).
- ↑ MC Lücke: 50 years of “Ton Steine Scherben”: In the beginning there was fire. In: rbb . August 20, 2020, accessed October 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Explain to me Pop: "Break what breaks you" by Ton Steine Scherben. In: SWR . August 1, 2020, accessed October 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Lars Fischer: Immortal Utopians. In: Weser Courier . April 19, 2014, accessed October 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Lyrics by Tommy Finke
- ↑ Marc Halupczok : "Extreme and satisfied". In: Metal Hammer , February 2009, pp. 26-27
- ↑ And break what breaks you. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ "Break what breaks you!" You say / please break me. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .