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The Sweet
Glam rock in its purest form. The Sweet delivered a series of hits in the seventies that still carry every rock party today. “Blockbuster” reached number one in Great Britain in 1973, “Ballroom Blitz”, “Teenage Rampage” and “The Six Teens” followed. With “Fox on the Run” and “Love Is Like Oxygen”, the band increasingly wrote…
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The Boomtown Rats
Bob Geldof and his band from Dublin are among the defining names of the New Wave era – and their concerts still have the force of that time. In 1978, “Rat Trap” was the first song by an Irish band to reach number one in Great Britain, followed a year later by “I Don’t Like…
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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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Nina Hagen
An exceptional phenomenon in German music history. Nina Hagen sings like no one else can, turning every concert into an event with an open outcome. Growing up in East Berlin, where she was already known as a young singer, she left the GDR in 1976 and founded the Nina Hagen Band in West Berlin, whose…
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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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Foreigner
One of the greatest rock bands of all time. Over eighty million records sold, and a repertoire consisting exclusively of hits. “Feels Like the First Time”, “Cold as Ice”, “Juke Box Hero”, “Urgent” – and then “I Want to Know What Love Is”, simultaneously number one in the USA and Great Britain in 1984, recorded…
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Dire Straits Legacy
When the first bars of “Sultans of Swing” sound, a murmur goes through the hall. Musicians who belonged to Mark Knopfler’s band play here – and who have this sound in their fingers. Dire Straits sold over a hundred million records worldwide. “Romeo and Juliet”, “Walk of Life”, “Money for Nothing”, “Brothers in Arms”: songs…
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Chicago Legacy feat. Danny Seraphine
The founding drummer of Chicago brings one of the greatest repertoires in rock history back to the stage – with the horn section that has made this band unmistakable. Chicago sold over a hundred million records worldwide and wrote songs like “25 or 6 to 4”, “Saturday in the Park”, “If You Leave Me Now”…
