“FOREVER! BEST OF 40 YEARS”: 27 September 2024
Dear UNIVERSE, we’re very excited to finally be able to share with all of you what’s been cooking behind the scenes of Alphaville: In celebration of our 40th anniversary this year, we’ll be releasing our first ever anthology FOREVER! BEST OF 40 YEARS on 27 September 2024 with Warner Music Central Europe! It has been […]
Let’s stay in silence for a few minutes and listen. And then act…
Liebe Mitbürger, am Abend des 14. Juni attackieren in Grevesmühlen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 8 Jugendliche aus einer 20-köpfigen Gruppe heraus ein acht- und ein zehnjähriges Mädchen aus Ghana. Das achtjährige Mädchen wird getreten, als es mit seinem Roller an einem der Jugendlichen vorbeifahren will. Ihr herbeieilender Vater wird verletzt. Ich bin selber Vater von sieben Kindern […]
Happy Anniversary “Afternoons in Utopia”!
(english version below) Afternoons in Utopia! Irgendwo muss ich diesen Titel aufgeschnappt haben. Es existiert ein gleichnamiges Buch von Stephen Butler Leacock. Ich habs nie gelesen. Was mich an diesem Begriff reizte war seine Atmosphäre. Einmal wirken “Nachmittage in Utopia” entspannt und friedlich, andererseits verströmen sie ein Gefühl allmählichen Verlöschens von etwas ehedem Strahlendem, darin […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIAN GOLD!
Marian Gold turns 70 today, happy birthday!
“Sounds Like A Melody” live @ Wetten, dass… (1984)
“Big In Japan” live @ Thommys Popshow extra (1984)
40 years ago today, BIG IN JAPAN went all the way to the top of the Official German Singles Chart for the first time! In celebration, we dug up one of our favourite performances of the song that year at ‘Thommy’s Popshow extra’ and had it upgraded Enjoy it like it’s 1984! Read the description […]
VOTE NOW!
Alphaville turns 40 and YOU get the gift! Be part of the Alphaville universe and decide which of your all-time favourite Alphaville songs should be featured on the next career-spanning Best Of. VOTE NOW and get the chance to win one of 3 Vinyl & CD Bundles! Want to save your picks for later? Register […]
WHAT A NIGHT!
Stockholm 17. February, 2024 Thank you: Reuter Music & Photography
Even if evil wins, good always survives.
Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny is dead. But you cursed murderers will lose in the end. That’s how it always was and how it always will be. Even if evil wins, good always survives. But evil will die. Marian Gold
FLASHLIGHTS, OR HOW BOB DYLAN SENT US AN ANGEL
Marian Gold on Alphaville’s very first TV appearance on the ZdF TV show “Flashlights”. If you want to step into the limelight for the first time in your life with a few decent songs, and suddenly the world that previously ignored you is spinning like a carousel gone mad, then a prime-time TV date doesn’t […]
