Fischer-Z

Fischer-Z was an English rock group led by singer and guitarist John Watts. It is regarded as one of the most popular bands of the New Wave in the early 1980s.

Band History

The band released between 1979 and 1981 three successful music albums. Several songs from the album Red Skies over Paradise from 1981, about Berlin and Red Skies over Paradise, thematize the Cold War. The piece is about the cruise missiles nuclear arms race and the mutual threat of the superpowers with nuclear war.

From 1982, John Watts was working solo. His two albums One More Twist and Iceberg model were successful, but he was able to build only limited to the first successes. From 1984 he was active for an album under the band name The Cry. Only in the year 1987, he returned with the album Reveal back to the band's name Fischer -Z. Apart from him, even the band but even then not a member of the original cast longer belonged to what is relativized by the fact that Watts himself Fischer-Z sees as an important part of the repertoire of his overall artistic creation; with the exception of four Watts has all the songs under the group name exclusively composed herself and texted. In addition to some Fischer- Z albums, he has also published after 1987 increasingly solo albums under his own name.

In 2004, to mark a small show to a temporary reunion of the band in the original line.

Since 2010, Watts has three younger musicians under the repertoire name Fischer- Z in Germany and other European countries on tour.

Discography

Studio albums

• Word Salad (1979 )
• Going Deaf for a Living (1980 )
• Red Skies Over Paradise (1981 )
• Reveal ( 1987)
• Fish 's Head (1989 )
• Destination Paradise (1992 )
• Kamikaze Shirt ( 1993)
• Stream (1995)
• Ether (2002)

Compilations

• Going Red for a Salad (The UA Years 1979-1982 ) ( 1990)
• The Best ( 1995)
• The Worker (1997)
• The Perfect Album ( 1998)
• Highlights 1979 to 2004 (2004)