Warning (electropop band)

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Warning
  DE 52 07/25/1983 (2 weeks)
Singles
Why Can the Bodies Fly
  DE 11 06/06/1983 (11 weeks)
  AT 17th 07/15/1983 (4 weeks)

Warning was a German electro project from the early 1980s that became a one-hit wonder in 1983 with the single Why Can the Bodies Fly . The song was part of the soundtrack of the Tatort episode Peggy is Afraid .

background

Warning consisted of the Hamburgers Edgar Schlepper, owner of a music shop, and Hans Müller, who worked for a record label . During a jam session on a guitar synthesizer , several songs were created, which were released by Phonogram in 1982 as the studio album Warning . The musicians took the pseudonyms Ed Vanguard (Edgar Schlepper) and Mike Yonder (Hans Müller).

On the recording of the album , the then worked Rattles - drummer Dicky Tarrach with the backing vocals comes from two singers of the former Les Humphries Singers . The lyrics to Why Can the Bodies Fly comes from the Spaniard Ines Gaim, the remaining texts by Jürgen Barz . The musicians presented themselves masked on the album cover like Darth Vader .

Director Wolfgang Becker noticed the song Why Can the Bodies Fly while on vacation because of its morbid mood, so he used it in the soundtrack of the 1983 crime scene Peggy is Afraid . In the film, the perpetrator (played by Hans-Georg Panczak ) plays the song in stressful situations (before the murders), accompanies it with bongos and plays it in the café (music box) where the model Peggy (played by Hannelore Elsner ) works, causing her to panic. Peggy and the investigating commissioner Wiegand (played by Karin Anselm ) also hear the striking song on the phone, the recognition value of which establishes the connection to the perpetrator.

The single reached number eleven of the German and space 17 of the Austrian single charts and was the only hit of the duo . Edgar Schlepper later produced radio plays . His partner Hans Müller died of cancer in 2004 , Edgar Schlepper died in 2015.

Why Can the Bodies Fly was developed by the Austrian death metal band Pungent Stench on the 1993 released EP Dirty Rhymes and Beats Psychotronic gecovert .

Discography

Albums

  • 1982: Warning
  • 1983: Electric Eyes

Singles

  • 1982: Why Can the Bodies Fly
  • 1983: Journey to the Other Side

swell

  1. ↑ Warning in the German charts
  2. ^ Warning in the Austria charts
  3. ↑ Mourning for Edgar Schlepper. In: plattnet.de. July 25, 2015, accessed May 3, 2016 .

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