4630 Bochum
Occupation
- Herbert Grönemeyer - vocals, choir, keyboards, piano
- Detlef Kessler - drums
- Alfred Kritzer - Keyboards, Piano, Trumpet
- Norbert Hamm - Bass
- Jacob Hansonis - Guitar
- Gaggy Mrozeck - Guitar
- Charlie Mariano - Saxophone
4630 Bochum is the fifth studio album of the German musician Herbert Grönemeyer. It was released on August 14, 1984 at EMI.
Formation
4630 Bochum was recorded from January to March 1984 at the EMI Recording Studio II at Maarweg in Cologne. It is the first album by Grönemeyer for the company EMI after the company had Intercord Media GmbH previously dissolved in his recording contract. The album spent 79 weeks in the German album charts. While Michael Jackson's Thriller became the world's most successful album of the year, this title in 1984 went to Germany to Bochum 4630. With over 2.5 million copies sold, it takes among the best-selling albums in Germany 3rd one. It was 5 times platinum. In Switzerland and Austria, the album placed 13 or 24 weeks in the charts. Especially the single release men made known the artist in all of Germany.
The cover shows in block handwriting with white chalk on a black background to a letter addressing resembling lettering:
4630 was the then zip code of the city of Bochum, grew up in the Grönemeyer and where he had worked at the playhouse as a musician.
Content and effect
According to the publicist and pop music expert Jürgen Stark Grönemeyer had already taken up in the album 's previous works " with the aura of the merciless Civic Floor Standing " leftist themes. With 4630 Bochum Grönemeyer has become the Ruhr buddy who sing so men, children and alcohol, how to think in Rhenish scene bars. The women's movement, so strong out that it was " and look forward to Grönemeyer's self- knowledge as convert Softie smile of victory ."
The Rolling Stone magazine rated the album one of the " 50 events that changed rock and roll ." When a listener choice of the best albums of all time the transmitter WDR 2 topped 4630 Bochum as the best German -language album number 10
The title track of the album is considered by many Bochum as a kind of unofficial " anthem of the city." Since 20 March 1992, the song is sung, among others, in addition to the club song before every home match of VfL Bochum. The solo of the title contains, according to Rolling Stone " some wrong notes, what's so good about the tribute to the gray, decrepit mining town with the heart in the right place " fits.
The single release men is today one of the most successful titles Grönemeyer represents the youth magazine Bravo described the song as " catchy come- men ". For the mirror is in the song to "half satire, half eulogy, partly Men's Lib, partly Chauvi Restoration ". The song seemed " the nerve of all ( emancipation damaged? ) To have met men ". Grönemeyer, the mirror on, skidding " the remnants of non- reformed masculinity as clogged arteries and emotional inhibitions [ ... ] lead to the destruction with hard rhythms and with a bright, throaty, sometimes somersaulting voice. "