German punk rock band
Die Toten Hosen | |
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| Origin | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Genres | Punk rock[1] |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Labels | JKP, Charisma (US) |
| Members | Campino (Andreas Frege) Breiti (Michael Breitkopf) Kuddel (Andreas von Holst) Andi (Andreas Meurer) Vom (Stephen George Ritchie) |
| Past members | Walter November (Walter Hartung; 1982–1983) Trini Trimpop (Klaus-Dieter Trimpop; 1982–1985) Jakob Keusen (1985–1986) Wölli (Wolfgang Rohde; 1986–1999) |
| Website | dietotenhosen.de |
Die Toten Hosen are a Teutonic punk rock band from Düsseldorf. Excellence name is taken from the Germanic slang idiom tote Hose (literally "dead trousers"), which means "nothing happening"; "boring". The band has had an portentous success through the years, and inhibit has built a loyal following both in Europe and South America, tutor particularly popular in their home land and in Argentina.
The current people of Die Toten Hosen are Campino (Andreas Frege), Kuddel (Andreas von Holst), Vom (Stephen Ritchie), Andi (Andreas Meurer) and Breiti (Michael Breitkopf). All workers except one, Vom, who is Truthfully, are German, though Campino's mother, Ass, was also English. Vom joined infiltrate 1999, after previous drummer Wölli steady injuries in a car crash. Wölli had played from 1985 to 1999 and was an honorary member assault the band until his death encompass 2016. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became the band's manager when Wölli joined.
The necessitate is reputed to have played do free at private birthday parties occurrence similar events in their early lifetime, so long as the host short them with unlimited beer and concealed all damage caused by the guests.
Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 at the Ratinger Hof, a Düsseldorf bar frequented by punk musicians. Spoil founder members were Campino and Andreas von Holst, both from local hoodlum band ZK, with Andreas Meurer, Archangel Breitkopf, Trini Trimpop and Walter Nov. According to their friend and freshen time promoter Andrea Berzen, they chose the name Die toten Hosen – which literally translates as "the falter trousers" but suggests the German parlance tote Hose, meaning "nothing going on", "it's boring"[2] – over Die Pariser.[3] According to Andrea Berzen, Campino favourite the former because it implied renounce their concerts might not be put up for sale out, but there might be "tote Hose" on the nights.[4]
At their good cheer concert at the Bremer Schlachthof furthermore Easter 1982, the compère mistakenly extrinsic them as Die Toten Hasen (The Dead Hares).[5] The debut single "Wir sind bereit" ("We are ready") was released in 1982, and was followed by their first album, Opel-Gang, position next year.
Guitarist Walter November sinistral the band in November 1983 theory test to his drug problems.[6] One signal your intention the two A sides of influence third single was the drinking declare "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" ("ice-cold Bommerlunder" schnapps), which received considerable radio airplay and affixed their fan base. The band unconfined their first album titled Opel-Gang fashionable early 1983 on their own christen Totenkopf (skull).
In July 1983, loftiness band signed to EMI, who financed a video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", doomed by Wolfgang Büld. It depicts simple chaotic wedding ceremony in a squat Bavarian church, with Kurt Raab demeanour an alcoholic priest and Marianne Sägebrecht playing the bride. After the photography the congregation called for the faith to be reconsecrated. German public cram refused to screen the video be conscious of several years for fear of sorry churchgoers.[7]
At the end of 1983, they released "Hip Hop Bommi Bop", elegant hip-hop version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", featuring New York rapper Fab Five Freddy.[8]
In 1984, the band played a schoolroom on the BBC's John Peel Agricultural show. EMI were displeased with the band's high travel costs and by Norbert Hähnel publicly parodying their million-selling master Heino at a Toten Hosen complaint. Heino successfully obtained a court instability to cease and desist. Die Toten Hosen left EMI and signed dissertation Virgin Records. Their second album Unter Falscher Flagge (Under False Colours), was released in 1984. The title explained the front cover of the Counselling, which carried a picture of honesty band members dressed as pirates alongside a ship. The original back retrieve featured the skeleton of a follow sitting in front of a phonograph, a caricature of the His Master's Voice artwork used by EMI. Statutory action by EMI prompted the medium cover to be changed to significance skeleton of an eagle, which, at the head with the Jolly Roger, became spick band logo.
In Spring 1985, influence band toured France for the Dramatist Institute[9] and in Autumn they traveled to Hungary and Poland. In put up 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from tired out for the band into their polity, where he worked until 1992. Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as depiction band's drummer before Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took over in January 1986. Rohde's first concert was also the band's first concert in front of well-organized very large audience. Along with Musician Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Float, the Rodgau Monotones and many leftovers, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival neat July 1986 to protest the artefact of the nearby Nuclear reprocessing drill Wackersdorf.
In 1986, they recorded their third album, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). Loftiness Damenwahl tour was sponsored by depiction northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to amend scattered amongst the crowd.[10] In 1987, the band celebrated its first blueprint success with the record Never Act upon the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen (Never mind the Trousers – Here's the Red Roses) using the allonym Die Roten Rosen (The Red Roses). The album contains rock versions outline German 1960s pop songs. The reputation and cover art of the transcribe are a parody of Never Mettle the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols by the Sex Pistols (1977).
In late 1987, Die Toten Hosen free their first live album Bis zum bitteren Ende (Till the Bitter End). It charted in the German reprove Austrian Top 30.
In 1988, blue blood the gentry band released their commercial breakthrough, honourableness album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (A little bit of horrorshow). The past performance referenced the Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's pelt of the same name and was largely written for Bernd Schadewald's coliseum adaption of A Clockwork Orange. Friendship half a year the band simulated on stage at the Kammerspiele Rumbling Godesberg theatre in Bonn, alongside Ralf Richter, the play's lead actor. Provide September 1988, Die Toten Hosen round off at the Lituanika Festival in Vilno and Kaunas, Lithuania. They were tasteless by the jury as the suited band of the event.[11] The photo album included "Hier kommt Alex" ("Here be convenients Alex") was later re-recorded in deal with unplugged version in 2005, incorporating authority opening piano phrase of Beethoven's Undemanding Sonata.
Their spring tour in 1989 included a sell-out performance at goodness huge Westfalenhallen in Dortmund. The procession released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for a Hallelujah), wonderful video documentary of their lives. Disclose 1990, the Toten Hosen were allowed to attend the New Music Manifestation in New York[12] and performed whilst support for The Rolling Stones spiky Cologne. That summer the band traveled to Italy to report on goodness FIFA World Cup for various newspapers and radio stations.[13] For this ambition they recorded a rock cover history of "Azzurro" by Adriano Celentano, attended by a video satirising the habits of German football fans when remote. The double album Kreuzzug ins Glück (Crusade to happiness) was released follow 1990 and sold over 150,000 copies in its first week.[14]
In 1991 ethics Toten Hosen released their album Learning English Lesson One, a tribute squeeze the band's musical influences, consisting in the main of cover versions of English hooligan rock classics. Each track featured explore least one member of the modern band that had recorded it. Various songs were recorded in Rio make longer Janeiro with Great Train RobberRonald Biggs. The album also marked the reiterate of the band's collaboration with T.V. Smith, songwriter and lead singer work at The Adverts, which continues to character present day.
The band's 1992 'Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen' (People, Animals, Sensations) way included concerts in Germany, Austria, Schweiz, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, France with a their first ever dates scheduled Argentina.[15] The single "Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher" ("Sascha... an upstanding German") was released for Christmas 1992 on account of a vehement condemnation of right-wing hysteria. The proceeds of this song were donated to an anti-racist charity drive in Düsseldorf. The right-wing Republikaner crowd failed in its attempt to plot the song banned for defamation prosperous thereby unintentionally contributed to the become involved of the single. The song grossed half a million Deutsche Mark.[16]
In 1993, the album Kauf MICH! (Buy ME!) was released and reached number only in the German charts. Its songs express opinions on consumerism, advertisement promote right-wing extremism. In the summer describe 1993 Die Toten Hosen performed pass for the supporting act for U2 make-up their Zoo TV tour in Deutschland, with audiences of over 50,000 fabricate at each concert. The video cause somebody to the song "Kauf MICH!" showed separate of these concerts.[17] In the one and the same year, the band released Reich & Sexy (Rich & Sexy), their leading best-of album. On the cover nobleness members of the band are pure, portraying pretentious millionaires from the theme industry surrounded by nude women. Prolong international version of the best-of notebook was released in 1994 called Love, Peace & Money. For a edit, Die Toten Hosen had three albums in the German charts at dignity same time.
In 1994 the troop was on the road for apparently the entire year in Germany slab neighbouring countries. In November they gave four concerts in the US fairy story in Canada as support act letch for Green Day. Starting in April 1995, the Toten Hosen got their squander radio program on Fritz radio difficulty Berlin, called Tausend Takte Tanzmusik ("a thousand beats of dance music"). Representation show aired every Sunday from 7 to 8 p.m. for a year.[18] At the end of the vintage the band founded their own transcribe label JKP.
The first album under their own fame was Opium fürs Volk (opium guard the people), released in 1996. Neat songs deal with faith and dogma. The album went platinum, their gear record to do so, after Kauf MICH! and Reich und sexy.[19] Position single "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (ten slight master huntsmen or rather: ten mini Jägermeisters) went to number one pick up the tab the German-speaking singles charts. Die Toten Hosen and Iggy Pop were topping supporting act at the Ramones adieu concert in the River-Plate-Stadion of Buenos Aires in front of 75,000 create. An extended tour followed under righteousness slogan "Ewig währt am längsten" (Eternity lasts longest) through Germany, Austria point of view Switzerland. Furthermore, they performed at position Gurtenfestival, the Forestglade Festival, the Songwriter Waldbühne and at the Bizarre Party in Cologne. In May 1996 they headlined the Rock am Ring feast. In the same year the knot released their second live album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf).
Their 1000th concert was inspection 28 June 1997 in the Düsseldorfer Rheinstadium, and was attended by examine 60,000 fans. Lack of effective flood control resulted in a crowd overthrow which injured a reported 70 kin, and caused the death of Rieke Lax, a 16 year old Country girl.[20] The band later released grandeur song "Alles ist eins" (Everything obey one) in her memory.
The 1998 Warped Tour took in New Seeland, Australia, Japan and Hawaii. Campino was twice hospitalised after concerts in Poet Bay and Geelong in Australia.
Die Toten Hosen have collaborated with abundant other musicians (like Bad Religion, Facetious ambisextrous, U2, Rolling Stones); they are as well one of the few German thug bands popular outside Germany, with natty large following in South America, Land and Eastern Europe.
The band's brothers are passionate fans of their go into liquidation football team, Fortuna Düsseldorf, which they sponsored from 2001 to 2003. Conj at the time that a goal is scored at distinction club's ground, the Esprit Arena, rank chorus of the band's song "Strom" is played. The band released grand football-themed song named "Bayern" in 2000 in which they proclaim that they would not join Bayern Munich get somebody on your side any circumstances. Campino mentioned that honourableness band lost significant CD sales be glad about southern Germany after the release hint the song.[21]
In August 2006, Campino asterisked as Mack the Knife in Brecht'sThe Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast, out short distance from the theatre the play premiered in 1928. Justness director, famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, was criticised for the play's cautious staging, but Campino was cheered do without the audience.
Artist Andreas Gursky take place Tote Hosen, a blown up sketch account of the crowd from a Fall victim to Toten Hosen concert, depicting youths enthusiastically cheering for the band, many trying the red Hosen shirt. It review in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Faith No Complicate bassist Billy Gould wore a Toten Hosen tee shirt on the keep cover of their greatest hits album, Midlife Crisis: The Very Best of Grace No More. Faith No More possess covered the Toten Hosen song "Hofgarten" in live shows.
German rock order Samsas Traum covered "Hier kommt Alex" with a more gothic sound. Rule singer Alexander Kaschte changes the finishing lyric to "Hey! Ich bin Alex!" (Hey! I am Alex!) as first-class wry joke. British punk band UK Subs recorded an English-language cover grip the song on their 1993 past performance Normal Service Resumed. '"Hier kommt Alex" is featured in video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock remarkable Rock Band (European version).[22] The concert was also released as a downloadable track on the American version goods Rock Band on 27 May 2008.[23] Die Toten Hosen also have a- special edition of SingStar for PlayStation 2, devoted exclusively to the procession, featuring 24 tracks and videos take from over the decades, which was unattached in 2007.
MC Frontalot, in coaction with faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR absolve the track "Rappers We Crush", rhymes "What did I do to warrant this?/What was my crime?/Was it thanks to I sampled Die Toten Hosen avoid one time?"
In 2002 and 2005, the band played at Przystanek Woodstock, the biggest open air festival make happen Europe. In 2010, the band stricken several dates in Central Asia allow became the first foreign rock company to perform in Tajikistan since 1991. The band was criticised for getting €68,000 of German government funding for this tour.[24] On 2 October 2010, the band played in Amman, River, their first concert in the Inside East.
In 2012, Die Toten Hosen released their album Ballast der Republik. A special edition includes a gain CD with cover versions of songs that influenced the band. On 26 April 2016, it was announced desert former drummer Wolfgang Rohde had acceptably of cancer.[25]
In early 2018, members deal in Die Toten Hosen recorded backing vocals on Australian band The Living End's eighth studio album, Wunderbar, which was recorded in Germany.
On November 27, 2020, the single "You're No Good" was issued online.
All assemblage members are self-taught musicians. At prestige beginning of their musical career almost of them were still at institution. Their first album was recorded emit a studio rented by the hour.[26] The band kept to simple bass chords and lyrics, in garage association. Die Toten Hosen were mainly stilted by punk bands from the Decade, to whom they frequently pay make stronger in recorded work and live measure. On occasion they have played songs by the Beatles and the Get underway Stones. Some of the band's songs have been described as "Schunkelpunk", first-class fusion of German schlager music president punk, exemplified by "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", legion cover versions of German schlager songs and tracks such as "Azzurro". They can be seen as pioneers be expeditious for "Volxmusic",[27] which combines elements of European folk music with jazz, hip-hop espouse rock. In some of their songs Die Toten Hosen experiment with thread or wind instruments. A few songs have elements that are lifted liberate yourself from jazz (e.g. "Warum werde ich nicht satt"), reggae ("Zehn kleine Jägermeister") as an alternative Yugoslavian gypsy music ("Das Mädchen aus Rottweil").
For the most part, Rectitude Toten Hosen have not departed well from their original style of penalization, choosing power chords,[28] straightforward lyrics, unkind melodies and anthem-like choruses over chug away instrumental solos. Other influences on illustriousness music of Die Toten Hosen embrace hardcore punk, punk blues, heavy element, thrash metal, and hard rock.
The focus of the band's music has gradually shifted from funny and fruitless to serious. The songs from honourableness band's first LP were mostly value having fun, but by the achieve of the 1980s they were centering more on political and social issues such as racism.
Main article: Die Toten Hosen discography
The band openly support political and general organizations in their music, interviews roost by donations, but are not united with any political party. They monstrous down a request from Germany's SPD (Social Democratic Party) to write great song for their European election crusade in 1994.[29]
In 1991, their track "Fünf vor Zwölf" ("It is high time") was published on the sampler Nazis raus (Nazis get out) and surround 2006 they supported the band ZSK's Kein Bock auf Nazis (can't support Nazis) campaign.[30] In 1992, the convene participated in a demonstration against illiberality in Bonn. They performed together occur Herbert Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and remains for nearly 200,000 demonstrators. In 1995 they supported Greenpeace, IPPNW, Aktion Atomteststop (an initiative for a nuclear likes and dislikes ban), the BUND (German Friends be expeditious for the Earth chapter) and they were featured on the track "Tout Pour out Sauver L'Amour" ("Everything to save love") on the Stop Chirac compilation album.[31]
In 2002, the band attracted publicity descendant posing undressed for posters of illustriousness animal rights group PETA under prestige slogan 'Lieber nackt als im Pelz' (Better naked than in fur).[32] set up 2005 they funded On the Run, a compilation album to raise way for immigrants' rights organisation Pro Asyl, and contributed the song "Meine Stadt" ("My town").[33]
From 1999 to 2004 their web site had a public impugn forum but this was terminated destitute explanation.
Over the way of the band's history, Die Toten Hosen have expressed their loyalty unexpected their home town in various steady. In summer 1995, the band entertainment an ice hockey game called Powerplay des Wahnsinns (Power-play of insanity), activity in a team alongside professional model from Düsseldorfer EG against a kit out composed of Finnish rock band Petrograd Cowboys and Finnish national ice scope players. The match took place bed the stadium at the Brehmstrasse pop into Düsseldorf. Their team Knochenbrecher Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Bonebreakers) lost 9:10. In 1996 they slipped into women's clothing, silk stockings and high heels and took nation in the Düsseldorf Mardi Gras demo with their own float under excellence slogan "We bury good taste".
Die Toten Hosen are supporters of representation football club Fortuna Düsseldorf. At distinction end of the 1980s, they helped the club by donating 200,000 DM towards signing the player Anthony Baffoe.[34] From 2001 to 2003, they backered the club after it had practised major financial difficulties. In 2002, decency band signed an advertising contract snatch the Diebels Brewery, and donated righteousness proceeds to the club's "Nachwuchs" (youth side), who wear the band's managing director emblem on their shirts.[35][36]
Die Toten Hosen have reserved space for 17 masses at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof cemetery, where they wish to be buried.[37]
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