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Suzi Quatro
The first woman to lead a rock band as a bassist and singer – and to this day one of the best live rockers ever. “Can the Can” reached number one in Great Britain and Australia in 1973, “48 Crash” and “Devil Gate Drive” followed, and with Chris Norman she landed her greatest success in…
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Smokie
Hardly any other band is as popular in Germany as Smokie. “Living Next Door to Alice” has been playing for almost fifty years at every folk festival, in every bar, in every bus – and everyone sings along. “If You Think You Know How to Love Me”, “Lay Back in the Arms of Someone”, “Oh…
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Sister Sledge
“We Are Family” is more than a song – it’s an anthem. And when Sister Sledge sing them live, the whole hall hugs each other. In 1979, the sisters from Philadelphia recorded an album with Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic that made disco history. “He’s the Greatest Dancer”, “Lost in Music”, “Thinking of…
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Nazareth
Hard rock from Scotland, for over fifty years and with over thirty million records sold. Nazareth are one of the longest-lived rock bands in Europe. The international breakthrough came in 1975 with “Love Hurts” – one of the most famous rock ballads ever, at number one in several countries. “Broken Down Angel”, “Bad Bad Boy”,…
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Mother’s Finest
The best live band that many have never seen before – and in Germany a cult star with the most loyal audience. Since the seventies, Mother’s Finest from Atlanta have been combining hard guitars with funk rhythms to create a sound that can be assigned neither rock nor soul. “Baby Love”, “Fire” and “Piece of…
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Kool & The Gang
“Celebration” – the unofficial anthem for every occasion where people celebrate. And it comes from the original. Kool & The Gang are among the most successful bands in American music history. The funk formation of the seventies with “Jungle Boogie” and “Hollywood Swinging” became a band whose songs have been played at weddings, company parties…
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KC & The Sunshine Band
If there’s one act that fills a dance floor single-handedly, it’s this one. KC & The Sunshine Band invented the sound of the disco era – and still play it with a full line-up today. “Get Down Tonight”, “That’s the Way (I Like It)”, “Shake Your Booty”, “Please Don’t Go” and “Give It Up”: five…
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Horace Andy
One of the most beautiful voices Jamaica has produced. Horace Andy’s falsetto is unmistakable – and the reason why Massive Attack have included it on almost every one of their albums since 1991. His career began in the early seventies in Kingston, in the legendary Studio One sessions of Coxsone Dodd, where “Skylarking” was created…
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Gloria Gaynor
There are songs, and there is “I Will Survive”. When Gloria Gaynor strikes the first piano chords, the whole hall stands – every time, all over the world. The title was first released in 1978 as a B-side, became a worldwide number one hit and received a Grammy in a category that only existed once.…
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Former Ladies of The Supremes
Pure Motown. Singers who were in the line-ups of the Supremes bring the repertoire of the most successful women’s group in music history back to the stage. Twelve number one hits in the USA, the flagship of the label from Detroit: “Baby Love”, “Where Did Our Love Go”, “Stop! In the Name of Love”, “You…
