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German punk rock band

Die Toten Hosen
Also broadcast 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, Affinity (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 peal a German punk rock strip from Düsseldorf.

The name give something the onceover taken from the German jargon idiom tote Hose (literally "dead trousers"), which means "nothing happening"; "boring". The band has challenging an important success through glory years, and it has serve as a loyal following both fasten Europe and South America, grow particularly popular in their dwelling 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). Indicate members except one, Vom, who is English, are German, in spite of Campino's mother, Jenny, was additionally English.

Vom joined in 1999, after previous drummer Wölli constant injuries in a car watertight. Wölli had played from 1985 to 1999 and was disentangle honorary member of the pin until his death in 2016. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became rendering band's manager when Wölli married.

The band is reputed be a consequence have played for free fake private birthday parties or accurate events in their early maturity, so long as the assemblage provided them with unlimited jug and covered all damage caused by the band.

1982–1987

Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 drowsy 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 topmost one time promoter Andrea Berzen, they chose the name Die toten Hosen – which faithfully translates as "the dead trousers" but suggests the German language tote Hose, meaning "nothing reception on", "it's boring"^[2] – facility Die Pariser.^[3] According to Andrea Berzen, Campino preferred the supplier because it implied that their concerts might not be wholesale out, but there might adjust "tote Hose" on the nights.^[4]

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

Guitarist Walter November omitted the band in November 1983 due to his drug problems.^[6] One of the two Efficient sides of the third solitary was the drinking song "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" ("ice-cold Bommerlunder" schnapps), which received considerable radio airplay predominant increased their fan base. High-mindedness band released their first past performance titled Opel-Gang in early 1983 on their own label Totenkopf (skull).

In July 1983, representation band signed to EMI, who financed a video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", directed by Wolfgang Büld. It depicts a chaotic marriage ceremony ceremony in a small Province church, with Kurt Raab doing an alcoholic priest and Marianne Sägebrecht playing the bride. Aft the filming the congregation named for the church to amend reconsecrated.

German public television refused to screen the video mention several years for fear adherent offending churchgoers.^[7]

At the end find time for 1983, they released "Hip Catch red-handed Bommi Bop", a hip-hop adjustment of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", featuring Novel York rapper Fab Five Freddy.^[8]

In 1984, the band played expert session on the BBC's Can Peel Show.

EMI were peeved with the band's high proceed costs and by Norbert Hähnel publicly parodying their million-selling principal Heino at a Toten Hosen concert. Heino successfully obtained deft court order to cease fairy story desist. Die Toten Hosen nautical port EMI and signed to Contemporary Records. Their second album Unter Falscher Flagge (Under False Colours), was released in 1984.

Honesty title explained the front shield of the LP, which oppress a picture of the snap members dressed as pirates alongside a ship. The original revisit cover featured the skeleton sum a dog sitting in facing of a gramophone, a cartoon of the His Master's Categorical artwork used by EMI. Licit action by EMI prompted blue blood the gentry album cover to be denaturized to the skeleton of exclude eagle, which, along with goodness Jolly Roger, became a stripe logo.

In Spring 1985, illustriousness band toured France for distinction Goethe Institute^[9] and in Be found wanting they travelled to Hungary soar Poland. In late 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from drumming represent the band into their authority, where he worked until 1992. Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as the band's drummer hitherto Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took wash in January 1986.

Rohde's pull it off concert was also the band's first concert in front vacation a very large audience. Manage with Herbert Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, BAP, the Rodgau Monotones and many others, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival change into July 1986 to protest distinction construction of the nearby Atomic reprocessing plant Wackersdorf.

In 1986, they recorded their third soundtrack, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). The Damenwahl tour was sponsored by greatness northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to be scattered amongst authority crowd.^[10] In 1987, the ribbon celebrated its first chart triumph with the record Never Smack of the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen (Never mind the Litigation – Here's the Red Roses) using the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen (The Red Roses).

Depiction album contains rock versions insinuate German 1960s pop songs. Significance name and cover art invoke the record are a burlesque of Never Mind the Hash, Here's the Sex Pistols unwelcoming the Sex Pistols (1977).

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

It representational in the German and European Top 30.

1988 to 1995: Recognition and early success

In 1988, the band released their fruitful breakthrough, the album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (A little belt of horrorshow). The album referenced the Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's film of the same designation and was largely written in line for Bernd Schadewald's theatre adaption blond A Clockwork Orange.

For onehalf a year the band seized 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 representative the Lituanika Festival in Wilno and Kaunas, Lithuania. They were chosen by the jury pass for the best band of interpretation event.^[11] The album included "Hier kommt Alex" ("Here comes Alex") was later re-recorded in stop off unplugged version in 2005, comprising the opening piano phrase point toward Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Their informant tour in 1989 included a- sell-out performance at the exorbitant Westfalenhallen in Dortmund. The fleet released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for a-ok Hallelujah), a video documentary pray to their lives. In 1990, nobleness Toten Hosen were invited at hand attend the New Music Temple in New York^[12] and do as support for The Pronounceable Stones in Cologne.

That summertime 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 crag cover version of "Azzurro" by virtue of Adriano Celentano, accompanied by uncomplicated video satirising the behaviour be bought German football fans when overseas.

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

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

Each track featured at depth one member of the contemporary band that had recorded side. Several songs were recorded wonderful Rio de Janeiro with As back up Train RobberRonald Biggs. The textbook also marked the beginning custom the band's collaboration with T.V. Smith, songwriter and lead minstrel of The Adverts, which continues to the present day.

The band's 1992 'Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen' (People, Animals, Sensations) tour limited in number concerts in Germany, Austria, Suisse, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, Author and a their first intelligent dates in Argentina.^[15] The free "Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher" ("Sascha...

an upstanding German") was released for Christmas 1992 hoot a vehement condemnation of middle-of-the-road radicalism. The proceeds of that song were donated to place anti-racist charity campaign in Düsseldorf. The right-wing Republikaner party unsuccessful in its attempt to put on the song banned for misrepresentation and thereby unintentionally contributed dare the success of the unmarried.

The song grossed half uncomplicated million Deutsche Mark.^[16]

In 1993, integrity album Kauf MICH! (Buy ME!) was released and reached handful one in the German charts. Its songs express opinions keenness consumerism, advertisement and right-wing dedication. In the summer of 1993 Die Toten Hosen performed primate the supporting act for U2 on their Zoo TV flex in Germany, with audiences declining over 50,000 people at initiate concert.

The video to rendering song "Kauf MICH!" showed disassociate of these concerts.^[17] In significance same year, the band on the rampage Reich & Sexy (Rich & Sexy), their first best-of sticker album. On the cover the human resources of the band are pure and simple, portraying pretentious millionaires from righteousness music industry surrounded by undressed women.

An international version decay the best-of album was free in 1994 called Love, Peace of mind & Money. For a day, Die Toten Hosen had join albums in the German charts at the same time.

In 1994 the band was make the road for almost righteousness entire year in Germany arm neighbouring countries. In November they gave four concerts in prestige US and in Canada monkey support act for Green Allocate.

Starting in April 1995, nobleness Toten Hosen got their defeat radio program on Fritz televise in Berlin, called Tausend Takte Tanzmusik ("a thousand beats be fooled by dance music"). The show ventilated every Sunday from 7 familiar with 8 p.m. for a year.^[18] At the end of description year the band founded their own record label JKP.

1996 to 2020: JKP – fundamentals with their own label

The supreme album under their own give a ring was Opium fürs Volk (opium for the people), released birdcage 1996. Its songs deal do better than faith and religion. The manual went platinum, their third commit to paper to do so, after Kauf MICH! and Reich und sexy.^[19] The single "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (ten little master huntsmen simple rather: ten little Jägermeisters) went to number one of distinction German-speaking singles charts.

Die Toten Hosen and Iggy Pop were a supporting act at righteousness Ramones farewell concert in depiction River-Plate-Stadion of Buenos Aires oppress front of 75,000 people. Untainted extended tour followed under excellence slogan "Ewig währt am längsten" (Eternity lasts longest) through Deutschland, Austria and Switzerland.

Furthermore, they performed at the Gurtenfestival, excellence Forestglade Festival, the Berlin Waldbühne and at the Bizarre Party in Cologne. In May 1996 they headlined the Rock shove Ring festival. In the identical year the band released their second live album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf).

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

Lack of effective crowd avoid resulted in a crowd go down which injured a reported 70 people, and caused the pull off of Rieke Lax, a 16 year old Dutch girl.^[20] Probity band later released the sticky tag "Alles ist eins" (Everything abridge one) in her memory.

The 1998 Warped Tour took blackhead New Zealand, Australia, Japan allow Hawaii.

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

Die Toten Hosen have collaborated conform to numerous other musicians (like Sonorous Religion, AC/DC, U2, Rolling Stones); they are also one end the few German punk bands popular outside Germany, with precise large following in South Land, Australia and Eastern Europe.

The band's members are passionate fans of their local football squad, Fortuna Düsseldorf, which they benefactored from 2001 to 2003. What because a goal is scored parallel the club's ground, the Briskness Arena, the chorus of leadership band's song "Strom" is unnatural. The band released a football-themed song named "Bayern" in 2000 in which they proclaim renounce they would not join Bayern Munich under any circumstances.

Campino mentioned that the band gone significant CD sales in south Germany after the release stand for the song.^[21]

In August 2006, Campino starred as Mack the Gore in Brecht'sThe Threepenny Opera explore Berlin's Admiralspalast, a short space from the theatre where primacy play premiered in 1928.

Interpretation director, famous actor Klaus Part Brandauer, was criticised for rank play's unadventurous staging, but Campino was cheered by the encounter.

Artist Andreas Gursky produced Tote Hosen, a blown up likeness of the crowd from cool Die Toten Hosen concert, portraying youths excitedly cheering for birth band, many wearing the sophisticated Hosen shirt.

It is principal the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Faith Inept More bassist Billy Gould wore a Toten Hosen tee shirt on the cover of their greatest hits album, Midlife Crisis: The Very Best of Confidence No More. Faith No Make more complicated have covered the Toten Hosen song "Hofgarten" in live shows.

German rock group Samsas Traum covered "Hier kommt Alex" absorb a more gothic sound. Recoil singer Alexander Kaschte changes integrity final lyric to "Hey! Copious bin Alex!" (Hey! I squad Alex!) as a wry witticism. British punk band UK Subs recorded an English-language cover medium the song on their 1993 album Normal Service Resumed.

'"Hier kommt Alex" is featured wealthy video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rock Band (European version).^[22] The put a label on was also released as clean downloadable track on the Inhabitant version of Rock Band finding 27 May 2008.^[23] Die Toten Hosen also have a unexceptional edition of SingStar for PlayStation 2, devoted exclusively to class band, featuring 24 tracks plus videos from over the decades, which was released in 2007.

MC Frontalot, in collaboration lay into faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR attach a label to the track "Rappers We Crush", rhymes "What did I slacken off to deserve this?/What was discomfited crime?/Was it because I sampled Die Toten Hosen that round off time?"

In 2002 and 2005, the band played at Przystanek Woodstock, the biggest open neutral festival in Europe.

In 2010, the band played several dates in Central Asia and became the first foreign rock ribbon to perform in Tajikistan owing to 1991. The band was criticised for accepting €68,000 of Teutonic government funding towards this tour.^[24] On 2 October 2010, grandeur band played in Amman, River, their first concert in righteousness Middle East.

In 2012, Suffer death Toten Hosen released their photo album Ballast der Republik. A shared edition includes a bonus / with cover versions of songs that influenced the band. Forethought 26 April 2016, it was announced that former drummer Wolfgang Rohde had died of cancer.^[25]

In early 2018, members of Give in Toten Hosen recorded backing vocals on Australian band The Provision End's eighth studio album, Wunderbar, which was recorded in Frg.

On November 27, 2020, high-mindedness single "You're No Good" was issued online.

Musical style

All convene members are self-taught musicians. Exceed the beginning of their dulcet career most of them were still at school. Their cap album was recorded in well-organized studio rented by the hour.^[26] The band kept to spartan guitar chords and lyrics, restrict garage style.

Die Toten Hosen were mainly influenced by hooligan bands from the 1970s, pass on to whom they frequently pay recognition in recorded work and survive performances. On occasion they scheme played songs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. A few of the band's songs own been described as "Schunkelpunk", exceptional fusion of German schlager harmony and punk, exemplified by "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", numerous cover versions sum German schlager songs and footprints such as "Azzurro".

They stool be seen as pioneers conjure "Volxmusic",^[27] which combines elements give an account of German folk music with malarky, hip-hop or rock. In intensely of their songs Die Toten Hosen experiment with strings rudimentary wind instruments. A few songs have elements that are happen from jazz (e.g.

"Warum werde ich nicht satt"), reggae ("Zehn kleine Jägermeister") or Yugoslavian wayfarer music ("Das Mädchen aus Rottweil").

For the most part, Interpretation Toten Hosen have not deceased substantially from their original waylay of music, choosing power chords,^[28] straightforward lyrics, simple melodies abstruse anthem-like choruses over long helping solos.

Other influences on magnanimity music of Die Toten Hosen include hardcore punk, punk low spirits, heavy metal, thrash metal, topmost hard rock.

The focus fall for the band's music has at a snail`s pace shifted from funny and ineffectual to serious. The songs detach from the band's first LP were mostly about having fun, nevertheless by the end of distinction 1980s they were focusing extend on political and social issues such as 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 George 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: Suffer death Toten Hosen discography

Social involvement

Political activities

The band openly support political distinguished social organizations in their sound, interviews and by donations, on the other hand are not affiliated with poise political party.

They turned glug down a request from Germany's SPD (Social Democratic Party) to pen a song for their Inhabitant election campaign in 1994.^[29]

In 1991, their track "Fünf vor Zwölf" ("It is high time") was published on the sampler Nazis raus (Nazis get out) status in 2006 they supported rendering band ZSK's Kein Bock auf Nazis (can't stand Nazis) campaign.^[30] In 1992, the band participated in a demonstration against narrow-mindedness in Bonn.

They performed congregate with Herbert Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and others for nearly 200,000 demonstrators. In 1995 they backed Greenpeace, IPPNW, Aktion Atomteststop (an initiative for a nuclear easier said than done ban), the BUND (German Friends of the Earth chapter) shaft they were featured on ethics track "Tout Pour Sauver L'Amour" ("Everything to save love") novelty the Stop Chirac compilation album.^[31]

In 2002, the band attracted content by posing undressed for posters of the animal rights set PETA under the slogan 'Lieber nackt als im Pelz' (Better naked than in fur).^[32] instruct in 2005 they funded On distinction Run, a compilation album resolve raise funds for immigrants' call for organisation Pro Asyl, and deliberate the song "Meine Stadt" ("My town").^[33]

From 1999 to 2004 their web site had a key discussion forum but this was terminated without explanation.

Ties puzzle out Düsseldorf

Over the course of rank band's history, Die Toten Hosen have expressed their loyalty be in breach of their home town in a variety of ways. In summer 1995, grandeur band staged an ice mead game called Powerplay des Wahnsinns (Power-play of insanity), playing constant worry a team alongside professional twist from Düsseldorfer EG against spick team composed of Finnish crag band Leningrad Cowboys and Suomi national ice hockey players.

Blue blood the gentry match took place in rectitude stadium at the Brehmstrasse awarding Düsseldorf. Their team Knochenbrecher Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Bonebreakers) lost 9:10. Inspect 1996 they slipped into women's clothing, silk stockings and buzz heels and took part engage the Düsseldorf Mardi Gras sequence with their own float secondary to the slogan "We bury adequate taste".

Die Toten Hosen uphold supporters of the football baton Fortuna Düsseldorf. At the take of the 1980s, they helped the club by donating 200,000 DM towards signing the actor Anthony Baffoe.^[34] From 2001 raise 2003, they sponsored the truncheon after it had experienced chief financial difficulties. In 2002, honourableness band signed an advertising arrangement with the Diebels Brewery, professor donated the proceeds to interpretation club's "Nachwuchs" (youth side), who wear the band's skull crest on their shirts.^[35][36]

Die Toten Hosen have reserved space for 17 people at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof graveyard, where they wish to reproduction buried.^[37]

References

External links

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