Klaus Lage
Klaus Lage ( born June 16, 1950 in Soltau ) is a German musician. He gained popularity mainly due to the song 1000 and 1 night ( Zoom! ) Klaus Lage Band.
Life and work
Klaus Lage began an apprenticeship as a wholesale merchant, without an end to this, then went to Berlin and worked as an educator and social worker in a children's home.
In the 1970s he made the first time talked about the Berlin rock ensemble ( BRE ). The quintet in the regular cast Klaus Lage (vocals, guitar), Gregor Schaetz (guitar, vocals ), Ralph Bill Mann (keyboards ), Axel Crémer (bass) and Martin Crémer (drums ) occurred throughout the country. The director Ulli Herzog turned on behalf of the SFB two reports on the band. His first albums, music machine (1980) and Positive ( 1982), followed.
The breakthrough location with his third album, City Strings ( 1983).
In 1984, the album was produced by Wolf Maahn beads of sweat. The lyrics written by Diether Dehm and Göran Walger, keyboardist Klaus Lage Band, composed song 1000 and 1 night ( Zoom! ) was coupled out of the album and gave wide situation awareness as a professional German Rock Artist. Shortly after the title again Zuhaus and the written also with the collaboration of today's left - politician Dehm and Wolf Maahn Monopoli were released.
Even with more songs like fist to fist from the 1985 album Hot tracks, celebrated successes location. Fist to fist was the theme song of the first Schimanski movie, tooth for tooth, with Götz George as the main character. Of this was also an English version, Fists of Steel, published.
The title song Now That You're Gone for the second Schimanski movie, Zabou, was also a common composition of Klaus Lage and Dehm, sung by Joe Cocker. In this movie location took a small role as a cook.
Since 1995, played the title role in the situation written by Diether Dehm musical stars. To the composed by Randy Newman soundtrack of the animated film Toy Story sang situation of the German texts.
Since 1991, the situation in different occupations, and since 2002 also with his keyboardist Bo Heart, on the road and has more projects realized: first, he toured with his album Live in pairs from 2002 to 2005 by Germany. From late October 2006, Klaus Lage joined forces with Bo Heart and Lothar Altwell at several concerts under the title of his album train to train on. On this tour could be heard in unusual arrangements known and new songs. Addition to the 1000 and 1 night ( Zoom! ) a capella, there were also listen to songs by Pete Seeger. In 2007, four of the albums from the period 1985-1991 were released as remastered with bonus tracks.
With Best location appeared in 2008 a 2- CD best-of album with all the great successes and current titles. In addition, the new album near and important has been published and presented by Janis Joplin with band at around 20 concerts live on 26 September. The first single from the new album called Always.
2010 Location remembered his roots as a singer-songwriter and entered first time in over 30 years on solo. Due to the positive response, he continued the tour in 2011 and released a live recording.
In February 2011, in addition, the studio album was released The moment he on some concerts in the spring - now back with ribbon - live presented. In autumn 2013 a solo tour followed by the name of time travel, which he continued in the spring of 2014.
Able lives in Bremen since 2008.
Cover versions
On the album published in 2003, The world is beautiful! found with the title What if God is a cover version of the song written by Eric Bazilian One of Us, with which the U.S. singer Joan Osborne in 1995 scored a worldwide hit.
Discography
Studio albums
Concert albums
Compilations
Singles
The fellow musicians Marius Müller- Westernhagen, Scorpions, Peter Maffay and Klaus Lage founded in the late 1990 's, the company " German Rock Radio ". The declared aim was the promotion of rock music in the pop-oriented radio landscape. So started on 1 August 1998, the first nationwide program of musicians " Rockland Radio" in Rhineland- Palatinate.