Okay (band)

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
OK!
  DE 2 
gold
gold
02/08/1988 (22 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/15/1988 (20 weeks)
  CH 21st 06/26/1988 (5 weeks)
Education
  DE 32 06/27/1988 (9 weeks)

Okay (often written as OK , OK or OKAY! ) Is a German pop band that was mainly active in the 1980s.

Career

The band was founded in 1985 in Frankfurt am Main by the then 16-year-old singer Marcus Gabler together with keyboardist Christian Berg, initially under the name Couleur Trois . Couleur Trois opened their concerts with a collage of various voice recordings that Marcus Gabler collected over a period of two years. In spring 1987 he single-handedly developed the title Okay! From these sound snippets . . In the summer of 1987, the label WESTSIDEmusic (under the unloved by the band spelling OK ) released a first version of the title on the compilation Best Beats III from Westside .

On June 1, 1988, the debut single Okay! Second place in the German single charts . In the music market's single year bestseller list for 1988, Okay! in third place and could only be kept from the top position by Milli Vanillis Girl You Know It's True and Ofra Hazas Im Nin'alu . OK! was in second place for five weeks, in the top 10 for nine weeks, and in the top 100 for 22 weeks. The band received a gold record for over 250,000 singles sold in Germany. The title makes extensive use of samples with well-known excerpts such as from Kermit the frog and the radio commentary by Herbert Zimmermann at the final of the 1954 World Cup, as well as a speech by Anke Fuchs in the Bundestag .

In May 1988 the second single, EDUCATION , was released, with the same team as Okay! was recorded. This time, the title was based on samples from language courses and cassettes.

In autumn 1989 the album Bang! , which contained the three previously released singles and eight (or ten on CD) other songs. Was recorded Bang! in a period of over eight weeks at Berwick Street Studios in London, producer was Rod Gammons. Further publications followed in 1990 and 1991.

In March 2008, 20 years after Okay! , the band has reunited with the original line-up for a performance for the Kult der 80s festival .

Members

  • Marcus Gabler (born July 7, 1968), vocals, keyboards, tapes
  • Christian Berg (born April 15, 1965), keyboards, vocals
  • Robin Otis (born May 19, 1965), vocals
  • Nikki Pfeil (born April 8, 1968), drums, vocals

Discography

Albums

  • 1989: Bang!

Singles

  • 1987: Okay!
  • 1988: EDUCATION
  • 1989: The Wild, Wild Western
  • 1989: Champagne for the Boy
  • 1990: 1.2.3.4. Une grande Affaire (feat.Valerie Vannobel)
  • 1991: World of Illusion (Okay Meets Valerie Vannobel)

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  2. ↑ Awards: DE

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