Swan Lee

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Enter
  DK 27 02/16/2001 (6 weeks)
Swan Lee
  DK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
03/12/2004 (46 weeks)
Singles
I don't mind
  DK 3 02/27/2004 (8 weeks)

Swan Lee was a band from Denmark that was active from 2001 to 2005.

history

Swan Lee is based on a band founded by Pernille Rosendahl ( vocals ), her boyfriend at the time Tim Christensen ( keyboard ), Jonas Struck ( guitar ) and Emil Jørgensen ( drums ) in 1996. Christensen left the group in 1999, which continued as a trio. After the addition of bassist Frederik Damsgaard in 2001, they were called Swan Lee. The origin of the name is a song of Syd Barrett , the first piece on page 2 of the Opel - compilation .

After a series of rejections from contacted record companies , the band decided to found their own label called Gogo Records. In 2001 she made her debut with the album Enter , which sold around 30,000 copies within three years. In 2004, in Germany only in May 2005, the self-titled successor followed, which entered the charts at number one and stayed in the Danish top 40 for a total of 46 weeks. Accordingly, sales were twice as high in less time.

With the song Tomorrow Never Dies , on which Christensen had co-composed, the band took part in a competition in which the title song for the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies was determined. Sheryl Crow emerged as the winner of the tender . Instead of getting movie honors, the song by Swan Lee got a place in the credits for the video game Hitman: Blood Money .

The band broke up in September 2005. Pernille Rosendahl then founded the band The Storm in 2006 with her new partner, bassist Johan Wolgert from the group Mew . Tim Christensen had meanwhile switched to a solo career, with Emil Jørgensen helping him.

style

For Andy Thompson of planetmellotron.com , Swan Lee is 1960s-influenced pop . In her concert review on campuscharts.de , Katrin Jungmann writes about perceived folk , country and pop characteristics. Christian Biadacz calls the style “almost perfect radio music” at the web address bloom.de , which gets by without any effects. Arte.tv sums up Swan Lee's style as "party rock ". The band themselves stated that they play "decent music".

Discography

  • 2001: Enter (Gogo Records)
  • 2004: Swan Lee (Gogo Records)
  • 2007: The Complete Collection 1997 - 2005 ( compilation , Gogo Records)

Movies

  • 2004: Swan Lee live at Vega and Roskilde (concert)
  • 2005: Stjernekigger (documentation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chartsurfer.de
  2. ↑ Awards for music sales: DK
  3. ↑ chartsurfer.de
  4. ↑ a b c Andy Thompson: Swan Lee (Denmark). In: planetmellotron.com. See Reviews p. 23 , accessed March 1, 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ a b c d Guerilla Music Promotion (Ed.): Swan Lee. Swan Lee . Berlin (undated [2005], promo sheet).
  6. ↑ danishcharts.com
  7. ↑ Tomorrow Never Dies (Soundtrack). (No longer available online.) In: deutsch-linien.de. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsch-linien.de
  8. ^ Groups Swan Lee går hver til sit. In: nyhederne.tv2.dk. September 23, 2005, accessed March 1, 2015 (dk).
  9. ^ Ronny Bittner: The Storm. Black Luck . In: Rock Hard . No. 284 , January 2011, p. ? .
  10. ↑ Tim Christensen - She May Call You Up Tonight. In: soundcloud.com. Retrieved March 1, 2015 .
  11. ^ Katrin Jungmann: Feeder / Swan Lee - Cologne, Prime Club. In: campuscharts.de. March 1, 2005, accessed March 1, 2015 .
  12. ^ Christian Biadacz: Swan Lee - Swan Lee. In: bloom.de. May 3, 2005, accessed March 1, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Danish music scene. (No longer available online.) In: arte.tv. October 2, 2003, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv