Okay (Band)
Okay (often OK, OK, OK or written! ) Is a German pop band that was active mainly in the 1980s.
Career
The band was founded in 1985 in Frankfurt am Main from the then 16 -year-old singer Marcus Gabler together with keyboardist Christian Berg initially under the name ' Couleur Trois '. Couleur Trois opened their concerts with a collage of different voice recordings, which garnered Marcus Gabler over a period of two years. Single-handedly he developed from these sound snippets in the spring of 1987 the title Okay! . In the summer of 1987, the label West Side Music published (under the unloved by the band spelling OK), a first version of the track on the compilation Best Beats from Westside 2
On 1 June 1988, the debut single Okay reached! # 2 in the German Single Charts. In the music market single -year best-seller list for 1988 Okay landed! at # 3 and could be held in Nin'Alu from the top position only by Milli Vanillis Girl You Know It 's True and Ofra Haza. Okay! spent five weeks at number two, nine weeks in the top 10, and 22 weeks in the Top 100, the band received a gold record for 250,000 copies sold in Germany and sold over 25,000 units in Austria. The title used extensively samples with known extracts, such as Kermit the Frog and the report by Herbert Zimmermann Football championship in 1954.
In May 1988, the second single EDUCATION, with the same team as Okay! Appeared was recorded. Basis of the title this time were samples of language courses and cassettes.
In the autumn of 1989 saw the album Bang! Containing the three previously released singles and eight (or as a CD release ten) more songs. Was recorded Bang! over a period of about eight weeks in London's Berwick Street Studios, producer Rod Gammons was. It followed other publications in the years 1990 and 1991.
In March 2008, 20 years after the chart debut of Okay! , The band has reunited for an appearance for the festival cult of the 80 in the original cast.
Members
- Marcus Gabler (* July 7, 1968 ), vocals, keyboards, tapes
- Christian Berg ( born April 15, 1965), keyboards, vocals
- Robin Otis, ( born May 19, 1965), vocals
- Nikki Arrow, ( born April 8, 1968), drums, vocals