The Starfighters (band)
| The Starfighters | |
|---|---|
 The Starfighters (1969) |
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| General information | |
| origin | St. Wendel , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Beat , rock |
| founding | 1963, 2013 |
| resolution | 1970, 2014 |
| Founding members | |
| Karl-Heinz "Pop" Kunz | |
| Karl-Hans “Charly” graves | |
| Hansi Lehnhäuser (until 1965) | |
| Willi Zeier (until 1965) | |
| Last occupation | |
| Karl-Heinz "Pop" Kunz | |
| Karl-Hans graves | |
| Christian Hautz (from 2014) | |
Organ , guitar |
Jack "Jacky" Wahl (1967–1970, from 2013) |
| Albert "John" Ebener (1967, from 2013) | |
| Manfred Simon (from 2013) | |
| former members | |
| Klaus "Kolla" Lambert (1966–1970) | |
| Josy "Jos Distel" Disteldorff (1966–1967) | |
The Starfighters was a beat - cover band from St. Wendel in Saarland , which existed from 1963 to 1970. She never published her own title.
history
The cover band The Starfighters , made up of school friends, had its first appearance in January 1964 in the Neunkirchen parish hall as a guest group by Frank Farian and Die Schatten . From Easter of the same year, the group was booked almost every weekend for the St. Wendel restaurant in Lindenau . The program included beat and rock covers by The Beatles, Bill Haley, The Equals, Chubby Checker, etc. The guests also included French and American soldiers who were stationed in the city or in Baumholder .
In 1968 the band won the annual band competition for Manfred Sexauer's radio show Hallo Twen and now appears as the “most popular beat band in Saarland” as the opening act for The Tremeloes and Wonderland in the Saarlandhalle . With Sexauer's help, the band also produced a video clip at an American military airport in the Palatinate.
Singer Klaus Lambert wanted to work as a solo singer John Coller after winning a record deal and tried to go two ways with the band, but failed. In 1970 the band was dissolved.
Later activities
Various members of the band became active in the jazz rock cover band Sodoma from 1971 , which was renamed Orchestra John C. from 1972 and then became nationally active as an accompanying band for pop singers. They performed with Ramona Wulf , Costa Cordalis , Graham Bonney , Séverine , Chris Roberts , Bata Illic and Peter Orloff , while Coller sang in the pop ensemble Family Tree . Due to professional bottlenecks the orchestra separated in 1975. The group still existed with a different line-up until 1979.
In 1991, the regional book Saar-Rock-History published a multi-page report on the Starfighters . In 2011, when the book was reprinted, an exhibition was shown in the Historisches Museum Saar , where a live video of the group could be seen. On March 22nd, 2014 a revival concert of the Starfighters took place in the St. Wendeler Saalbau . Due to the great success, similar oldie nights were offered annually, which were contested by the successor project Orchestra John C.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Starfighters take off again at saarbruecker-zeitung.de
- ↑ Michael Beckert: With "Hallo Twen" Manfred Sexauer mixed up the German radio . In: Kleist, Thomas, Buchholz, Axel, Geistkirch-Verlag (eds.): Finds from 60 years of Saarland broadcasting history (s), people, experiences . 1st edition. Saarbrücken 2011, ISBN 978-3-946036-67-8 , pp. 372 .
- ↑ Elmar Peiffer: Honky Tonk, Beat & Rock - The Starfighters Story . In: Roland Helm, Norbert Küntzer (Eds.): Saar Rock History Volume 1 & 2 , Saarbrücken 1991/2011. Pp. 29-35. ISBN 978-3-87661-037-5 ( Web )
- ↑ Saar Rock History at historisches-museum.org
- ↑ 700 guests swarm to oldies at saarbruecker-zeitung.de