Mick Franke

Mick Franke (* 1955 ; † April 2001 ), actually Michael Franke, was a German musician .

Life

Michael Franke was guitarist , producer and co-composer for Heinz Rudolf Kunze in the 1980s . He accompanied Kunze on the guitar at the German Phono Academy 's Pop Young Talent Festival in the Stadttheater Würzburg in 1980, where Kunze received a five-year contract from WEA Records . After four studio albums, Kunze ended his musical and business collaboration with his long-time friend Mick Franke in 1984.

In 1991 Franke founded his record company Slow Motion Records and ran the Harderberg studio in Osnabrück . In 1999 he joined the folk band Fiedel Michel, founded in 1973, as a guitarist.

In 1999 a CD was produced, the release of which he did not live to see.

Musical projects with Mick Franke

Kerstin Blodig & Valivann - Album Rhythmic Ballads from Both Sides Of The Borth Sea (2002). The album was posthumously dedicated to Mick Franke.

With Heinz Rudolf Kunze

Album State of Emergency (1984)
Live double album The Cities Look Like Sleeping Dogs (1984)
Album The Heavy Courage (1983)
Album A Form Of Violence (1982)
Album Reine Nervensache (1981)

family

Michael Franke, a son of Heinrich Franke , died in April 2001 while playing soccer with his son.

Web links

http://westparkmusic.de/kuenstler/valivann2.htm
http://werkzeug.heinzrudolfkunze.de/aktuell/archiv/mickfrankestodesbeispiel.html
http://www.deutsche-mugge.de/interviews/2009/2066-heinz-rudolf-kunze.html
Full-length video of the concert by Heinz Rudolf Kunze and reinforcement (with guitarist Mick Franke) in 1983 in the warehouse in Osnabrück, probably the first detailed concert documentation. Wolfgang Meisinger dedicated this film to Mick Franke and Michael Leckebusch (1937–2000).

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Franke, Mick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH	1955
DATE OF DEATH	April 2001

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[8] ttp://werkzeug.heinzrudolfkunze.de/musik/alben/reinenervensache.html