New digitally remastered double CD with Top Hits & Rarities

The crazy miraculous story of segelohrigen warehouseman Christopher from Redcar with the self-colored longhair mane and his friend, the car washers Pete from Leeds, which together with the shy Alan, who had just broken his electrician teaching and chubby painter Terence, the all Terry called, unawares the industrial city of Bradford left to go out into the world and to seek their musical happiness and to find. It's the crazy tragic story of Alice, Sally, Jeanette, Carol and Belinda, about ups and downs, through sessions in London, Paris, Cologne and Glendale, about performances with constant jokes on the stages of the world.
The curtain rises on SMOKIE, the most romantic rock ballads band in the world that refused to die ...

40 years have accomplished. Being a fan of this band, 1975-78 was not easy. A commitment to their music at that time resulted in Häme, hostile, abusive or women music lovers, as Schlagerfuzzifreak, wimp and Retarded, which you wanted to quickly yet the Hard Rock Deep Purple or the Stones near bring before one would be sunk completely into the abyss of shallow rock ballads swamp. Unverständins in the faces of my fellow students, attempts at demonizing this band, vilification with each new hit on the charts. Us fans fared worse than the beleaguered ABBA Gutfindern and the clandestine The Sweet-year-loud-listeners. Well, what the heck. We having survived. The bumps on my helmet still bear witness to the struggles that were often fought with my brothers and sisters, parents and in my case with the wife. Torn Smokie images, abused as greaseproof paper Smokie poster, my Chris-Norman-newspaper clippings collection of Mucki, our guinea pigs fed and my Smokie song anthology abused by my buddy as toilet paper, glued to the rare Kindness single a fat Popel. I have suffered through everything and then threatened with my little fist: you bang Köppe have no idea of ​​really good music! We will again speak to us in 40 years, there will be seen so, whether Smokie had inventory.

In classrooms and seminar group meeting my former friends take me to and remind me of my former prophecies and whisper in my ear their confessions: "You were right back then with Smokie."

Lutz Woodpecker, my friend, he even had to suffer that his wife called their son "Norman". He has endured it bravely with dignity. Who can count all the babies who are called for Smokie Chris?

In my yellowed box in the cupboard is still a 90-minute MC, to which only a title has been recorded successively: Livin 'Next Door To Alice. If you familiar?

And now? Now she is in front of me. The oh-so-expected Smokie double CD in the deluxe edition with the song "The Book", "Looking Daggers" and believed "A Cry In The Night", on their publication on CD not even Mucki, my guinea pig. Even my cat would never Naschanskaja received me a bet. And let's face it - who believed that would 2 Kindness song will appear on the official CDs of us Smokie fans? Rather an elephant would hang with a daisy on a cliff.

But the incomprehensible occurred. All songs were again really new remastered digitally. In "Baby It's You", "Oh Carol" and "It's Your Life" you can hear it clearly. The songs are crystal clear, warm and dynamic. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" now has a bass that you fetzt off the hood. And only "What can I do" - I thought my ears not to be trusted. The sound is all top notch - the drums and Bummert Rummelt, my few hairs on his head waving in the wind of Baßboxen. Gorgeous warm sounds, the cold, metallic and rather snotty over came in the 1990 remaster. The beginning of Baby It's You ("Honey, you're the one to which I just keep thinking") I once consulted at least 20 in a row. Loud, clear, warm, as if Chris with his guitar sitting next to me. The song was otherwise always a little quieter and more reserved. Now Enjoy's been eight for Vattern.

And the two Kindness songs? Hats off! This could rausholen from these songs something. On the double CD inner sleeve are even the full credit, including the first names of the composers who so far came empty-handed. Some details the maturities are wrong. the remix of "If You Think ..." is 5'14 long. Having 15 x heard him, I'm amazed: You get used to not only to him, but he drills in fact the Smokie ear. (I liked someone borrowed a Smokie-ear and did not return it. Since I got it, take heed it as my eyeball.)

The Meckerern: All songs form a unit on the CD because they are matched sonically. You can run the two CDs quiet. In addition, yes you can hear rare songs "embedded" among the hits that you would otherwise have internalized rather not intensively. So I am amazed at "'tis Me", which has an end, what I so intense not heard hatte.Weiß anyone know what this neologism is "' tis Me" in German? As I puzzle to this day in vain ...

On the inner envelope, the charts of all countries are listed, however, in English abbreviations. Vatter amazed, because he does not know what they have to do the abbreviations. Can an unraveled times me?

In "40 Years On" creeps me an oppressive feeling of melancholy. Is that all really Almost 40 years ago? Have we really spent 40 years with Chris, Pete, Alan and Terry together? Under Fire also includes the knowledge: The era is coming to an end Smokie.

In the booklet, which is written in English, Chris and Terry are allowed to shred really. Vanities, hurt feelings, Hochnäsigkeiten, Dunmmheiten behold at Smokie first time the light of day. Friends of the night - that was necessary? Must that be? What is this like cheese in this booklet, I therefore actually saw you in your buttocks columns' slide. With age, the Smokiebarden are now even quirky. Man oh man - rather celebrate your anniversary, making a one-off reunion and Enjoy life before it bites the dust.

My CDs anyway rotate in Autoplayer a wolf. Oh, what I've always wanted to know and never dared to ask: What does "Do To Me" in German? Approximately: "Baby, Please bang's me!" ??

Oh - I suspected it. I guessed it ...

Smokie Forever!