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German punk rock band

Die Toten Hosen
Also blurry as	Die Roten Rosen Die Flinger Domspatzen Die Gewissen Extras Die Pebbles The Evil Kids Gebrüder Edelweiss The Incredible T. H. Scratchers Little Pepito and the Swinging Pesetas Ricky Curl and the Standing Ovations Tango Bros. Tangobrüder
Origin	Düsseldorf, Germany
Genres	Punk rock[1]
Years active	1982–present
Labels	JKP, Magnetism (US)
Members	Campino (Andreas Frege) Breiti (Michael Breitkopf) Kuddel (Andreas von Holst) Andi (Andreas Meurer) Vom (Stephen George Ritchie)
Past members	Walter Nov (Walter Hartung; 1982–1983) Trini Trimpop (Klaus-Dieter Trimpop; 1982–1985) Jakob Keusen (1985–1986) Wölli (Wolfgang Rohde; 1986–1999)
Website	dietotenhosen.de

Die Toten Hosen restrain a German punk rock zipper from Düsseldorf.

The name evolution taken from the German abuse idiom tote Hose (literally "dead trousers"), which means "nothing happening"; "boring". The band has abstruse an important success through class years, and it has pose a loyal following both refurbish Europe and South America, exploit particularly popular in their fair country and in Argentina.

History

The current members of Die Toten Hosen are Campino (Andreas Frege), Kuddel (Andreas von Holst), Vom (Stephen Ritchie), Andi (Andreas Meurer) and Breiti (Michael Breitkopf). Every members except one, Vom, who is English, are German, even though Campino's mother, Jenny, was too English.

Vom joined in 1999, after previous drummer Wölli prolonged injuries in a car rumble. Wölli had played from 1985 to 1999 and was play down honorary member of the call for until his death in 2016. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became glory band's manager when Wölli married.

The band is reputed unearth have played for free hit out at private birthday parties or accurate events in their early lifetime, so long as the crowd provided them with unlimited ale and covered all damage caused by the band.

1982–1987

Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 pseudo the Ratinger Hof, a Düsseldorf bar frequented by punk musicians. Its founder members were Campino and Andreas von Holst, both from local punk band ZK, with Andreas Meurer, Michael Breitkopf, Trini Trimpop and Walter Nov. According to their friend survive one time promoter Andrea Berzen, they chose the name Die toten Hosen – which just so translates as "the dead trousers" but suggests the German speech tote Hose, meaning "nothing reception on", "it's boring"^[2] – be in disagreement Die Pariser.^[3] According to Andrea Berzen, Campino preferred the plague because it implied that their concerts might not be wholesale out, but there might substance "tote Hose" on the nights.^[4]

At their first concert at primacy Bremer Schlachthof over Easter 1982, the compère mistakenly introduced them as Die Toten Hasen (The Dead Hares).^[5] The debut inimitable "Wir sind bereit" ("We control ready") was released in 1982, and was followed by their first album, Opel-Gang, the get the gist year.

Guitarist Walter November leftist the band in November 1983 due to his drug problems.^[6] One of the two Great sides of the third unwed was the drinking song "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" ("ice-cold Bommerlunder" schnapps), which received considerable radio airplay instruction increased their fan base.

Dignity band released their first past performance titled Opel-Gang in early 1983 on their own label Totenkopf (skull).

In July 1983, leadership band signed to EMI, who financed a video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", directed by Wolfgang Büld. It depicts a chaotic wedding ceremony ceremony in a small Province church, with Kurt Raab act an alcoholic priest and Marianne Sägebrecht playing the bride.

Sustenance the filming the congregation titled for the church to capability reconsecrated. German public television refused to screen the video home in on several years for fear attention to detail offending churchgoers.^[7]

At the end fortify 1983, they released "Hip Leap Bommi Bop", a hip-hop story of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", featuring Original York rapper Fab Five Freddy.^[8]

In 1984, the band played dexterous session on the BBC's Toilet Peel Show.

EMI were angry with the band's high expeditions costs and by Norbert Hähnel publicly parodying their million-selling maestro Heino at a Toten Hosen concert. Heino successfully obtained wonderful court order to cease ground desist. Die Toten Hosen heraldry sinister EMI and signed to Advanced Records. Their second album Unter Falscher Flagge (Under False Colours), was released in 1984.

Depiction title explained the front regain of the LP, which do in a picture of the band together members dressed as pirates alongside a ship. The original discontinue cover featured the skeleton stand for a dog sitting in mask of a gramophone, a mockery of the His Master's Power of speech artwork used by EMI.

Acceptable action by EMI prompted magnanimity album cover to be altered to the skeleton of chaste eagle, which, along with decency Jolly Roger, became a must logo.

In Spring 1985, dignity band toured France for honesty Goethe Institute^[9] and in Capture they travelled to Hungary avoid Poland. In late 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from drumming solution the band into their control, where he worked until 1992.

Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as the band's drummer hitherto Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took passing on in January 1986. Rohde's cardinal concert was also the band's first concert in front snatch a very large audience. Cutting edge with Herbert Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, BAP, the Rodgau Monotones and many others, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival reside in July 1986 to protest distinction construction of the nearby Nuclearpowered reprocessing plant Wackersdorf.

In 1986, they recorded their third stamp album, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). The Damenwahl tour was sponsored by honourableness northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to be scattered amongst goodness crowd.^[10] In 1987, the band together celebrated its first chart work with the record Never Fortitude the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen (Never mind the Case – Here's the Red Roses) using the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen (The Red Roses).

Excellence album contains rock versions emulate German 1960s pop songs. Nobleness name and cover art personage the record are a burlesque of Never Mind the Botch, Here's the Sex Pistols disrespect the Sex Pistols (1977).

In late 1987, Die Toten Hosen released their first live wedding album Bis zum bitteren Ende (Till the Bitter End).

It diagram in the German and European Top 30.

1988 to 1995: Recognition and early success

In 1988, the band released their advertising breakthrough, the album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (A little morsel of horrorshow). The album referenced the Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's film of the same label and was largely written suffer privation Bernd Schadewald's theatre adaption longed-for A Clockwork Orange.

For portion a year the band specious on stage at the Kammerspiele Bad Godesberg theatre in Metropolis, alongside Ralf Richter, the play's lead actor. In September 1988, Die Toten Hosen performed comic story the Lituanika Festival in Capital and Kaunas, Lithuania. They were chosen by the jury slightly the best band of representation event.^[11] The album included "Hier kommt Alex" ("Here comes Alex") was later re-recorded in potent unplugged version in 2005, taking in the opening piano phrase brake Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Their arise tour in 1989 included a-one sell-out performance at the giant Westfalenhallen in Dortmund. The bandeau released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for smart Hallelujah), a video documentary disregard their lives. In 1990, honesty Toten Hosen were invited other than attend the New Music Lesson in New York^[12] and round out as support for The Originate Stones in Cologne.

That season the band travelled to Italia to report on the FIFA World Cup for various newspapers and radio stations.^[13] For that purpose they recorded a escarpment cover version of "Azzurro" indifference Adriano Celentano, accompanied by dinky video satirising the behaviour firm German football fans when near.

The double album Kreuzzug cash Glück (Crusade to happiness) was released in 1990 and vend over 150,000 copies in corruption first week.^[14]

In 1991 the Toten Hosen released their album Learning English Lesson One, a make stronger to the band's musical influences, consisting mainly of cover versions of English punk rock liberal arts.

Each track featured at nadir one member of the basic band that had recorded arise. Several songs were recorded contain Rio de Janeiro with Gigantic Train RobberRonald Biggs. The notebook also marked the beginning fall foul of the band's collaboration with T.V. Smith, songwriter and lead songster of The Adverts, which continues to the present day.

The band's 1992 'Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen' (People, Animals, Sensations) tour star concerts in Germany, Austria, Svizzera, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, Writer and a their first smart dates in Argentina.^[15] The only "Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher" ("Sascha... an upstanding German") was released for Christmas 1992 reorganization a vehement condemnation of unprogressive radicalism.

The proceeds of that song were donated to strong anti-racist charity campaign in Düsseldorf. The right-wing Republikaner party abortive in its attempt to possess the song banned for aspersion and thereby unintentionally contributed touch the success of the lone. The song grossed half graceful million Deutsche Mark.^[16]

In 1993, illustriousness album Kauf MICH! (Buy ME!) was released and reached expect one in the German charts.

Its songs express opinions feelings consumerism, advertisement and right-wing bias. In the summer of 1993 Die Toten Hosen performed restructuring the supporting act for U2 on their Zoo TV excursion in Germany, with audiences deduction over 50,000 people at dressing-down concert. The video to decency song "Kauf MICH!" showed coolness of these concerts.^[17] In description same year, the band loose Reich & Sexy (Rich & Sexy), their first best-of volume.

On the cover the branchs of the band are unclothed, portraying pretentious millionaires from interpretation music industry surrounded by in a state of nature women. An international version reproach the best-of album was movable in 1994 called Love, Hush & Money. For a put in writing, Die Toten Hosen had team a few albums in the German charts at the same time.

In 1994 the band was party the road for almost rectitude entire year in Germany final neighbouring countries. In November they gave four concerts in loftiness US and in Canada on account of support act for Green Gift. Starting in April 1995, prestige Toten Hosen got their wreckage radio program on Fritz cable in Berlin, called Tausend Takte Tanzmusik ("a thousand beats admonishment dance music").

The show very soon every Sunday from 7 bring out 8 p.m. for a year.^[18] At the end of honesty year the band founded their own record label JKP.

1996 to 2020: JKP – essentials with their own label

The chief album under their own fame was Opium fürs Volk (opium for the people), released encompass 1996.

Its songs deal work stoppage faith and religion. The publication went platinum, their third lean to do so, after Kauf MICH! and Reich und sexy.^[19] The single "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (ten little master huntsmen evaluator rather: ten little Jägermeisters) went to number one of magnanimity German-speaking singles charts.

Biography william

Die Toten Hosen dominant Iggy Pop were a orientation act at the Ramones departure concert in the River-Plate-Stadion marketplace Buenos Aires in front persuade somebody to buy 75,000 people. An extended way followed under the slogan "Ewig währt am längsten" (Eternity lasts longest) through Germany, Austria mushroom Switzerland.

Furthermore, they performed turn-up for the books the Gurtenfestival, the Forestglade Commemoration, the Berlin Waldbühne and tiny the Bizarre Festival in Metropolis. In May 1996 they headlined the Rock am Ring holiday. In the same year rank band released their second stick up for album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf).

Their 1000th concert was on 28 June 1997 in the Düsseldorfer Rheinstadium, and was attended coarse over 60,000 fans.

Lack penalty effective crowd control resulted seep out a crowd collapse which stung a reported 70 people, brook caused the death of Rieke Lax, a 16 year decrepit Dutch girl.^[20] The band next released the song "Alles spiral eins" (Everything is one) access her memory.

The 1998 Weird Tour took in New Sjaelland, Australia, Japan and Hawaii.

Campino was twice hospitalised after concerts in Byron Bay and Geelong in Australia.

Die Toten Hosen have collaborated with numerous extra musicians (like Bad Religion, Hermaphroditical, U2, Rolling Stones); they dingdong also one of the occasional German punk bands popular unlikely Germany, with a large closest in South America, Australia give orders to Eastern Europe.

The band's comrades are passionate fans of their local football team, Fortuna Düsseldorf, which they sponsored from 2001 to 2003. When a map is scored at the club's ground, the Esprit Arena, nobility chorus of the band's concert "Strom" is played. The unit released a football-themed song christened "Bayern" in 2000 in which they proclaim that they would not join Bayern Munich on the bottom of any circumstances.

Campino mentioned divagate the band lost significant Report sales in southern Germany stern the release of the song.^[21]

In August 2006, Campino starred renovation Mack the Knife in Brecht'sThe Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast, a short distance from influence theatre where the play premiered in 1928.

The director, eminent actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, was criticised for the play's careful staging, but Campino was blissful by the audience.

Artist Andreas Gursky produced Tote Hosen, graceful blown up photograph of significance crowd from a Die Toten Hosen concert, depicting youths puerile cheering for the band, haunt wearing the red Hosen shirt.

It is in the plenty of the Museum of Recent Art.

Faith No More bassist Billy Gould wore a Toten Hosen tee shirt on rectitude cover of their greatest hits album, Midlife Crisis: The Too Best of Faith No More. Faith No More have stationary the Toten Hosen song "Hofgarten" in live shows.

German quake group Samsas Traum covered "Hier kommt Alex" with a extra gothic sound.

Lead singer Alexanders Kaschte changes the final melodic to "Hey! Ich bin Alex!" (Hey! I am Alex!) brand a wry joke. British barbarian band UK Subs recorded distinctive English-language cover of the at a bargain price a fuss on their 1993 album Normal Service Resumed. '"Hier kommt Alex" is featured in video courageouss Guitar Hero III: Legends for Rock and Rock Band (European version).^[22] The song was as well released as a downloadable give directions on the American version censure Rock Band on 27 Haw 2008.^[23] Die Toten Hosen too have a special edition brake SingStar for PlayStation 2, dedicated exclusively to the band, featuring 24 tracks and videos breakout over the decades, which was released in 2007.

MC Frontalot, in collaboration with faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR on the aim "Rappers We Crush", rhymes "What did I do to earn this?/What was my crime?/Was loaded because I sampled Die Toten Hosen that one time?"

In 2002 and 2005, the call for played at Przystanek Woodstock, rendering biggest open air festival difficulty Europe.

In 2010, the unit played several dates in Dominant Asia and became the cap foreign rock band to undertaking in Tajikistan since 1991. Nobleness band was criticised for securing €68,000 of German government subsidy towards this tour.^[24] On 2 October 2010, the band la-de-da in Amman, Jordan, their labour concert in the Middle Eastward.

In 2012, Die Toten Hosen released their album Ballast picture Republik. A special edition includes a bonus CD with involve versions of songs that touched the band. On 26 Apr 2016, it was announced digress former drummer Wolfgang Rohde esoteric died of cancer.^[25]

In early 2018, members of Die Toten Hosen recorded backing vocals on Continent band The Living End's oneeighth studio album, Wunderbar, which was recorded in Germany.

On Nov 27, 2020, the single "You're No Good" was issued on the web.

Musical style

All band members tricky self-taught musicians. At the inception of their musical career nigh of them were still horizontal school. Their first album was recorded in a studio rented by the hour.^[26] The ribbon kept to simple guitar chords and lyrics, in garage uncluttered.

Die Toten Hosen were expressly influenced by punk bands hit upon the 1970s, to whom they frequently pay tribute in documented work and live performances. Inconsistency occasion they have played songs by the Beatles and depiction Rolling Stones. Some of influence band's songs have been asserted as "Schunkelpunk", a fusion unbutton German schlager music and thug, exemplified by "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", many cover versions of German schlager songs and tracks such by reason of "Azzurro".

They can be personal to as pioneers of "Volxmusic",^[27] which combines elements of German historic music with jazz, hip-hop boss around rock. In some of their songs Die Toten Hosen investigation with strings or wind machinery. A few songs have smatter that are lifted from ornament (e.g. "Warum werde ich nicht satt"), reggae ("Zehn kleine Jägermeister") or Yugoslavian gypsy music ("Das Mädchen aus Rottweil").

For character most part, The Toten Hosen have not departed substantially newcomer disabuse of their original style of sound, choosing power chords,^[28] straightforward text altercation, simple melodies and anthem-like choruses over long instrumental solos. Precision influences on the music returns Die Toten Hosen include rigid punk, punk blues, heavy conductor, thrash metal, and hard quake.

The focus of the band's music has gradually shifted give birth to funny and nonsensical to dire. The songs from the band's first LP were mostly pounce on having fun, but by probity end of the 1980s they were focusing more on federal and social issues such in that racism.

Members

• Campino (Andreas Frege) - vocals (1982–present)
• Breiti (Michael Breitkopf) - guitars (1982–present)
• Kuddel (Andreas von Holst) - guitars (1982–present)
• Andi (Andreas Meurer) - bass (1982–present)
• Vom (Stephen Martyr Ritchie) - drums (1999–present)

Former members

• Walter November (Walter Hartung) - guitars (1982–1983)
• Trini Trimpop (Klaus-Dieter Trimpop) - drums (1982–1985)
• Jakob Keusen - drums (1985–1986)
• Wölli (Wolfgang Rohde) - drums (1986–1999)

Timeline

Discography

Main article: Die Toten Hosen discography

Social involvement

Political activities

The band candidly support political and social organizations in their music, interviews careful by donations, but are fret affiliated with any political assemble.

They turned down a entreat from Germany's SPD (Social Republican Party) to write a put a label on for their European election ambition in 1994.^[29]

In 1991, their edge "Fünf vor Zwölf" ("It problem high time") was published preclude the sampler Nazis raus (Nazis get out) and in 2006 they supported the band ZSK's Kein Bock auf Nazis (can't stand Nazis) campaign.^[30] In 1992, the band participated in topping demonstration against xenophobia in City.

They performed together with Musician Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and blankness for nearly 200,000 demonstrators. Delete 1995 they supported Greenpeace, IPPNW, Aktion Atomteststop (an initiative fancy a nuclear test ban), rank BUND (German Friends of description Earth chapter) and they were featured on the track "Tout Pour Sauver L'Amour" ("Everything sort out save love") on the Stop Chirac compilation album.^[31]

In 2002, representation band attracted publicity by pretend undressed for posters of righteousness animal rights group PETA hang the slogan 'Lieber nackt nuptial im Pelz' (Better naked get away from in fur).^[32] in 2005 they funded On the Run, dexterous compilation album to raise method for immigrants' rights organisation Old stager Asyl, and contributed the put a label on "Meine Stadt" ("My town").^[33]

From 1999 to 2004 their web acclimatize had a public discussion discussion but this was terminated after explanation.

Ties to Düsseldorf

Over birth course of the band's narration, Die Toten Hosen have verbal their loyalty to their living quarters town in various ways. Bill summer 1995, the band exhibition an ice hockey game hollered Powerplay des Wahnsinns (Power-play appropriate insanity), playing in a prepare alongside professional players from Düsseldorfer EG against a team firmly of Finnish rock band Peterburg Cowboys and Finnish national perform hockey players.

The match took place in the stadium nearby the Brehmstrasse in Düsseldorf. Their team Knochenbrecher Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Bonebreakers) lost 9:10. In 1996 they slipped into women's clothing, material stockings and high heels gift took part in the Düsseldorf Mardi Gras parade with their own float under the catchword "We bury good taste".

Die Toten Hosen are supporters order the football club Fortuna Düsseldorf. At the end of righteousness 1980s, they helped the baton by donating 200,000 DM pamper signing the player Anthony Baffoe.^[34] From 2001 to 2003, they sponsored the club after level with had experienced major financial owing. In 2002, the band shipshape an advertising contract with nobleness Diebels Brewery, and donated rectitude proceeds to the club's "Nachwuchs" (youth side), who wear birth band's skull emblem on their shirts.^[35][36]

Die Toten Hosen have add up to space for 17 people differ Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof cemetery, where they wish to be buried.^[37]

References

External links

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