NO 55

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Annual hit parade of the GDR
title
birth
  GDR 28 1982
Heads or tails
  GDR 20th 1983
Good bye, old days
  GDR 37 1983
In the last hour of the day (Enno)
  GDR 13 1984
Short circuit
  GDR 22nd 1984
Key child
  GDR 23 1984
Dreams of yesterday
  GDR 27 1987
Intersection Berlin
  GDR 50 1988
Keep them waiting
  GDR 18th 1988
Stone in flight
  GDR 29 1988

NO 55 (spoken: Enno fifty-five) was a German music group. The band was formed in 1981 and broke up in 1989. In the meantime the band also called itself Enno .

Band history

Georgi Joro Gogow ( bass guitar , violin , vocals ) founded the band NO 55 in December 1981 together with Gisbert Pitti Piatkowski ( guitar , accordion , 1984 also vocals; formerly Magdeburg , City, later he joined the Modern Soul Band ) after Gogow's band City had split up.

The name of the band refers to a historical postal name of the Prenzlauer Berg in East Berlin , where Gogow lived at the time.

Other band members were:

With this line-up, NO 55 toured the GDR in autumn 1982 together with the British musician Tom Robinson . For the GDR audience, this was one of the first opportunities to experience an internationally recognized British rock musician live. A partial recording of the performance in Berlin was broadcast by the youth radio DT64 .

1983 Krause left, but came

  • Herbert Junck (formerly Hansi Biebl Band, joined Silly in 1984 )
  • Bernd Haucke (formerly Prinzip , later Modern Soul Band) replaced Herbert Junck in 1984.

During Gahler's army service in 1984, the band was expanded to include

  • Thomas Schock (keyboard) from Wir
  • Rene Decker ( saxophone , keyboard).

From then on the band called itself Enno for a few months .

After serving in the army, Gahler founded the band Gala , with which he stayed until 1985; then he returned to NO 55. In 1986, Schock and Decker left the band and it happened

  • Hannes Pfeffi Richter (keyboard) from Gala added.

In 1989 Gahler, the head of the band, left the GDR and NO 55 was dissolved.

The band's lyrics were written by Werner Karma , Jan Witte , Hartmut König , Frank Gahler and Klaus Bölter. The songs were composed by Georgi Gogow, Frank Gahler and Gisbert Piatkowski.

Discography

LPs

  • 1983: heads or tails ( Amiga )
  • 1987: dreams of yesterday (Amiga)

Sampler

  • 2007: 60 years of Amiga Vol.4 (with NO 55)

Singles

  • 1983 That's it / heads or tails (Amiga)
  • 1984 In the last hour of the day / Caravan (Amiga)

literature

  • Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9