The Pink Mice

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The Pink Mice (short form: Pink Mice ) was a German progressive classical rock band that formed between 1970 and 1974 in the wake of the success of Emerson, Lake and Palmer as an offshoot of the Hamburg band Lucifer's Friend and made two long-playing records that were successful in Germany Recorded rock adaptations of classical music.

The musicians Peter Hecht (keyboards), Dieter Horns (bass), Peter Hesslein (guitar) and Hans-Joachim Rietenbach (drums) were known with their group Lucifer's Friend for changing their style on every album and taking role models like Led Zeppelin or Follow Black Sabbath . So it was not surprising that from mid-1970 they also made a name for themselves in the field of classical rock with instrumental pieces. Her first album "The Pink Mice in Action" (1971) was quickly released on the EUROPA record label and set the trend in Germany for later successful bands such as Triumvirat .

The Pink Mice never shied away from re-recording well-known tracks from The Nice ("Brandenburger") or Emerson, Lake and Palmer ("Nutcracker"), but the majority of the tracks were on "The Pink Mice in Action" and the follow-up album "The Pink Mice in Synthesizer Sound" (1972) developed independently and did not need to shy away from a comparison with its competitors, which include Ekseption .

However, since The Pink Mice didn't make enough money to make a living from, Hecht, Horns, Hesslein and Rietenbach broke up the band and continued to play with Lucifer's Friend in the further course of the 1970s and were even in the orchestra James Last took action to make a living. Hesslein was a member of Udo Lindenberg's panic orchestra from 1973 to 1976 and from 1981 to 1984 , and from 1978 worked as a studio musician for Ted Herold . He also became a successful music producer and was responsible for the first three studio albums by Marius Müller-Westernhagen between 1975 and 1977 .

Discography

  • The Pink Mice in Action (1971, LP)
  • The Pink Mice in Synthesizer Sound (1972, LP)
  • The Pink Mice (2006, CD with the albums "The Pink Mice in Action" and "The Pink Mice in Synthesizer Sound")