Steppenwolf (Peter Maffay album)

Steppenwolf
Maffay studio album
Publication (s)	1979
Label (s)	Telefunken
Format (s)	LP, MC, CD
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	12
running time	48 min, 22 sec
occupation	Peter Maffay - vocals, guitar Frank Diez - guitar Gary Gordon - guitar Jean-Jacques Kravetz - keyboard, synthesizer Bertram Engel - drums Steffi Stephan - bass guitar Eddie Taylor - saxophone Thomas Glanz - synthesizer Frank Baum - pedal steel guitar
production	Peter Maffay , Peter Wagner
Studio (s)	Hansa Tonstudios 1 in Berlin
chronology Your Face (1977) Steppenwolf Revenge (1980)

Steppenwolf is the eighth studio album by Peter Maffay . The album, released in 1979, can be assigned to German rock .

History of origin

The creation of the album, named after a novel by Hermann Hesse , coincides with the divorce of his wife Petra Küfner and Maffay's move from Taufkirchen to Frankfurt. After a trip through the Sahara and during a boat trip to Antarctica, Maffay wrote the songs. Volker Lechtenbrink and Bernd Opinioner contributed the texts after his return. The album was recorded in the Berlin Hansa recording studios with almost the entire line-up of Udo Lindenberg's panic orchestra.

The released single So bist du reached the top position in the German album charts . The single contains a text passage that Berndorff / Friedrich describe as "a sound commitment to saying goodbye and starting over":

“And when I go, only part of me goes.
And if you go, your warmth stays here.
And when I cry, only part of me cries
and the other laughs with you. "

- Excerpt from So are you

After the album was released, Maffay left the Telefunken record company to sign a lucrative contract with the Metronome label in 1980, when the follow-up album "Revanche" was released in the late summer of 1980. His fee at Metronome is said to have been 5.6 million marks.

reception

Graf / Rausch call the album in their rock music lexicon "a refined mixture of Schlager and rock". For the 27-day tour that followed the release, the concert tickets were sold out within a few hours. A recording of the concert from Hof was broadcast on January 4, 1980 by ARD .

Cover artwork

The photo was created by Klaus Thumser .

Track list

The songs were written by Peter Maffay (1 - 3, 5 - 12); Bernd Opinioner (1, 3, 4, 7-9); Johnny Tame (2, 8); Oliver Spiecker (2); Burton Cummings (4); Volker Lechtenbrink (5, 6, 10 - 12) composed.

1. Not like that - 3:34
2. Steppenwolf - 3:33
3. On the way to me - 4:23
4. Jane - 3:57
5. Goodbye my friend - 3:25
6. You ran out of tears - 5:13
7. So are you - 5:07
8. Traces of a night - 5:02
9. Roadie - 4:06
10. This is my dream - 3:14
11. Darling, wake up - 3:38
12. Truth - 3:10

success

With the 1.6 million times sold album Steppenwolf , a sales record at the time, Maffay made it to the top of the album charts in 1979. On the album was his second number one hit So Are You . The single was also successful in Austria (17th place) and Switzerland (3rd place). The second single You had no more tears was released (Germany place 17).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lothar Berndorff and Tobia Friedrich: 1000 Ultimate Charthits . Moewig Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86803-272-7 . , P. 339
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Christian Graf and Burghard Rausch: Rockmusiklexikon . Europe / Vol. 2, Lake Zombies. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-12388-7 , pp. 751-1515 . , P. 809