From what was, of what remains - a humbling document greats of show business

Noiseless drives the CD into the player and the first bars sounded. It is the prelude of the concert, which I amidst a devoutly listening crowd saw in the Frankfurt Festhalle and I will now pass in review. Wistfulness comes on like all the images that are interwoven with that night in early November last year. A man appears on stage, frenetically celebrated, tens of views, but always captivating. He is known "forever", his gestures seem familiar as the sounds that he knows how to elicit his beloved piano. It is Udo, Udo ALL, no one really knows, and whose person familiar yet appear as some relative.
He talks, sings his songs, the proven mix of newly written songs and a selection of his evergreens, which he understands always shall be included new nuances in concerts. Of course, the program is well thought out as calculated, otherwise can not work great entertainment, can not those magic created that connects the general public over such a long period of time fixed by this artist, more than that can be almost symbiotic.

Nevertheless appear calculated to the performance, although it's nothing. And you wonder a little if you this impression is aware. One knows how much detail is in a touring show, before she "is" and the difficult balancing act between the demanded by the masses Hitfeuerwerk as well as the quiet, equipped with clever lyrics songs manages those so delicate hurdle that ultimately so different pacify listening habits and know the audience well-satisfied, even happy, releases at the end to "11:10".
But you do not really wonder long. That this is precisely one of the strengths of this man named Udo Jürgens, who stands up there, up there sitting at the piano and - has become extremely rare - his songs anmoderiert (unfortunately the recordings neglected) comes to mind as well as the knowledge, that one is dealing with a truly Great, there to sing about love, society, the happiness and the sadness white and does not get bored even in well-known popular songs, because they were never applied to the beer tent level and are - the " Greek wine "is to be a matter not" Fiesta Mexicana ", but the Champions League in that genre, with the Jürgens was life equated as it could be him never meet.

Man enjoying the cocktail of seemingly not for ends. "Again and again the sun rises" next to the "crown of creation", and of course the inevitable "cream" as the haunting, timeless classic, "I'm for it." And it fits, it is no sin, there is Udo in all its facets, which ultimately almost everyone identified: The happiness does not work without the bitterness of grief, melancholy without the euphoria.

If these artists had a secret, then it is in fact not really a, unless you into old age does not equate high artistic creativity and authenticity so unbroken. This double album - albeit reduced in terms of moderation - is actually unplanned legacy of a true circus horse, a gifted composers and interpreters, neither crooner still chansonnier in its purest form, but "simply he" somewhere in between, but always on a very high level. He was, he is, so his songs will remain.
Like the melancholy that he is no longer.