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Absolute „Wahnsinn“. When Wolfgang Petry was discovered by Tony Hendrik and Karin Hartmann at a gig in the Forsbach discotheque „Whisky Bill“ in 1975, it was not foreseeable that he would rise to become one of the biggest German pop stars of all time and that his songs would become cult hits for eternity. Over decades, the Cologne-born singer won countless awards, broke records and amassed hit after hit. Another phenomenon of this unique career: many Petry songs, especially from the...

Insane. In spring 1990 Matthias Reim released his first single as singer with Verdammt, ich lieb‘ Dich. Before that he worked as a composer and texter. Nobody wanted to record his title, Reim decided to try it himself. The result: With over 2.5 million sales and an incredible 16 weeks at No. 1 in the single charts, Verdammt, ich lieb‘ Dich became one of the most successful German songs of all time. In June 1990 the album Reim was released, which also reached the top of the hit parade in...

The Beginning Was Shrill! The Berlin duo Rosenstolz with singer AnNa R. and songwriter Peter Plate shaped the beginning of the 2000´s like hardly any other German formation and are to this day the most successful German pop duo. Sexual tolerance, poetry, equality between man and woman, „posh- pop“ are the catchwords. Already in the 1990s a first, firm fan circle developed and Rosenstolz became an insider tip. Her songs from the early days were more experimental, a liaison of chanson and...

The Voice Of Desire. No other singer has achieved more number one hits in Germany to date than Freddy Quinn. In his extraordinary career, he sold more than 60 million records and is still one of the most successful pop stars in Germany and Austria, along with Udo Jürgens and Peter Alexander. His sailor ballads, composed and produced by Bert Kaempfert, Lotar Olias, Ernst Bader and James Last, among others, he performed in a deep baritone and let the listeners dream of the sea, the wide world...