Rheingold (band)

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Rheingold
General information
Genre (s) Neue Deutsche Welle
founding 1980
Current occupation
Bodo Staiger († 2019)
text
 Lothar Manteuffel
Brigitte Kunz

Rheingold is a music group from the environment of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW). The members are Bodo Staiger (vocals, guitar), Lothar Manteuffel (text) and Brigitte Kunz (keyboard).

Band history

Between 1980 and 1984 Rheingold released three LPs with German-language electro pop . Among the biggest successes included the title Dreiklangsdimensionen , river and FanFanFanatisch (the music for the film The fan with Désirée Nosbusch and Bodo Staiger in the lead roles). In the German single charts, Rheingold reached number 17 with triad dimensions , number 24 with FanFanFanati and number 44 with That suits you well . Dreiklangsdimensions was the first single assigned to the NDW, which appeared in the German top 20 charts in October 1981.

Lothar Manteuffel founded the duo Elektric Music in 1992 together with the former Kraftwerk musician Karl Bartos . In 2009 he was on tour as a keyboardist with Peter Heppner .

In 1984, one of the band's last TV appearances on Bayerischer Rundfunk, Rolf Meurer took part as a keyboardist. Today he is a sound & stage designer at Kraftwerk.

Bodo Staiger (1949–2019) founded the Rheinklang-Studio in Düsseldorf in 1988, where he worked as a producer and sound engineer. As the owner of the music label 3Klangrecords, Brigitte Staiger (formerly Brigitte Kunz) worked closely with her husband. Bodo Staiger worked in 1997 on the production of a solo album by the former Kraftwerk musician Wolfgang Flür , which was published under the project name Yamo .

In 2007, the original line-up of the album Electric City (Düsseldorfer Schule) appeared with cover versions of Düsseldorf electropop bands from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, including Fehlfarben , Kraftwerk, La Düsseldorf and Propaganda .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1980 Rheingold DE18 (38 weeks)
DE
1991 (CD), 2005 (CD with bonus tracks)
1982 R. DE13 (13 weeks)
DE
1993 (CD), 2005 (CD with bonus tracks)

More albums

  • 1984: Dis-Dance (LP)
  • 2007: Electric City (Düsseldorfer Schule) (MP3 download, CD 2008)
  • 2010: Best of Rheingold (MP3 download)
  • 2017: Over Time (CD)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1981 The three dimensions of the
Rheingold 		DE17 (38 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (2 weeks)
AT 		-
FanFanFanatic
R. 		DE24 (22 weeks)
DE 		- CH9 (4 weeks)
CH
1982 That looks good on you
R. 		DE44 (9 weeks)
DE 		- -

More singles

  • 1980: Rheingold / Staigerwalzer (7 ″)
  • 1980: river (7 ″)
  • 1980: graffiti (7 ″)
  • 1981: Sonido Tridimensional / Rio (12 ″, Spanish versions of triad dimensions / river )
  • 1981: Triad Dimensions / River (. 12 ", English versions of Dreiklangsdimensionen / river )
  • 1982: FanFanFanatic / River / Triad Dimensions (. 7 "and 12", English versions of FanFanFanatisch / river / Dreiklangsdimensionen )
  • 1982: Looks Good On You / A Moment's Glance (7 ″ and 12 ″, English versions of That suits you well / moment )
  • 1983: Te Sienta Bien (7 ″ and 12 ″, Spanish version of That suits you well )
  • 1983: Via satellite (7 ″ and 12 ″)
  • 1984: Computerbeat (7 ″ and 12 ″)
  • 1990: Dreiklangs-Dimensions Remix 1990 (12 ″ and CD5, two remixes)
  • 2001: Dreiklangsdimimen 2001 (12 ″ and CD5, several DJ remixes)
  • 2010: Dreiklangsdimimen New Mixes (MP3 download, four new remixes)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~topsi/deu1981/deu_291081.html
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH