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Real was a German pop band from Flensburg, which was founded in 1994. With the song You carry no love in you, they had their greatest success in 1999, before they broke up in 2002.
Band History
The members of Real met at their common school know and began her career as a school band Seven Up at the Kurt Tucholsky School (KTS ) in Flensburg, which was supervised by the former music teacher Dietmar Wagner. The cast remained unchanged during the entire active time.
Made headlines the band members, among other things, as they ran for the filming of the music video to the song 2010 naked on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg.
The end of the band began in 2001 with the release of the album recorder, in which they had written all the songs himself. The sales figures fell far short of expectations, and the sale of tickets for the tour went ahead very slowly, which is why the second part of the tour was canceled. The still originating from the album Recorder last single the band was standing retardation, a first for 2002 advertised new studio album did not come off. Instead, the end of 2002 the split of the band was announced.
2011 was the band, during a memorial concert for the late artist Walter Welke, for the first time since the separation together again on the stage.
Special
- In interviews, the band refused on principle to be called Boy Band, although their audience consisted mostly of young girls - no one is stylistically with the typical boy bands of the time comparable, even if it were for real a " retort band".
- Most of the songs on the albums penned by Kai Fischer, who was, however, mentioned in the CD booklet under the pseudonym Jonathan Lionheart. However, were just the best known and most successful titles and foreign compositions were, among others, by Michel van Dyke ( Where are you now? , And You carry no love in you) written. Especially in the early concerts cover versions were also quite often played by bands like Selig, whose former producer Franz Plasa also worked with Real.
- In episode 106 ( The Man Without a Head ) of the radio drama series The Three Investigators were involved in all the band members, although only singer Kim Frank a larger role (as Jeffrey ) had.
- In summer 2000 the band recorded the song Junimond Rio Reiser as a cover version; it served as a soundtrack for the film Crazy with Shia LaBeouf and Tom Schilling in the lead roles and was the last major success of the group.
- Kim Frank starred in the lead role of the film NVA Leander Haussmann, who was released in 2005.
- Florian Sump since 2007 as a rapper Jim rumen again active in the music business. In addition, he works as a pedagogical assistant in a Hamburg kindergarten. In 2012 he has released with the band your friends who are also members DJ Paul and Luke Nimscheck, a rap album, which is aimed at children in kindergarten and primary school age.
- Gunnar Astrup working after a completed internship as a music editor for radio.
Discography
Albums
Studio
Sampler
Singles
- 2000: Crazy Platinum Edition (with 6 live videos, the making-of Junimond and the music video of the same name )