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VARIOUS TOPIX 2

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DAVID BOWIE CONNECTION

>Interesting AV <-> Bowie connection - Carmine Rojas (Bowie's bassist

>since about 1986) was also the bassist for a song or two on AV's

>"Afternoons in Utopia" album.

And Marian is a *big* Bowie fan - not only did he cover "Five Years" (is
that title right?) on "United", but he has a framed poster of Bowie in
his living-room!
He also had an anecdote about hanging out in a club in Berlin in the late 70s,
hoping Bowie would turn up (that was during Bowie's Berlin period) - I think
that was where Marian got the idea for "Big in Japan".
So indeed, I would say Bowie definitely had some influence on AV.

Emma

SWEET NEEDLES OF SUCCESS

<<I remember an interview in the Moonpaper in 1992-93, where Marian tells
about this song being very personal and about the years since Alphaville
started. Marian sings: 12 years, 6 were good, 6 were bad" - sometimes I
wonder which period was the bad...?>>

I asked him back in '95, and he said the song had been written in '89.
The six good years were when he and the others were just starting up in
the Nelson Project, and then the six bad years followed the success of
"Big in Japan" (when Marian got snared into all sorts of unsavory stuff).
At least, that's what he said...

Emma

RED ROSE VIDEO

My name is Csaba, and I’m one of the leaders of Hungarian FC. Maybe I’ve some interesting information about the Red-Rose video.

This one was shooted at Budapest, exactly at Fót (a little city near the capital, with big filmstudios).
The director and the cameraman was the same: Buda Gulyás
By the first version the video was only one extra-long shoot buth because of many performer and the fast tempo wasn’t there enough time to practise it (the total make-time is 3 day)
Big part of performers (except of course the female backup-singers) was the cream of hungarian pop-musicians at this age, so...
the gig on the video is more or less is LIVE (without audience)

And finally some pieces from an interview (LOCATION: BUDAPEST, YEAR: 1986 - AV on the top!)

Reporter: So, at all, was any live-appearance in the life of Alphaville?
Ricky: No. But... last year, in Berlin, at the Antinuclear-Festival. We are on the whole studio-musicians.

Reporter: We know only the Forever Young. When come the new album?
Marian: We are working in our own studio at West Berlin. It’s a lucky situation, we can make anything. We can work with one album whether two mounth or three years.

Reporter: And the manager how can carry this tempo?
Bernhard: He accustomed it. Works with Kraftwerk previously. There one album was composed five years...
Marian: The pop-musician make music to trade. But we would like to make evergreen together.

Best
Csaba
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