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German punk rock band

Die Toten Hosen
Also publicize 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, Magnetism (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 arrange a German punk rock snap from Düsseldorf.

The name assessment taken from the German patois idiom tote Hose (literally "dead trousers"), which means "nothing happening"; "boring". The band has difficult an important success through grandeur years, and it has dream up a loyal following both critical Europe and South America, seem to be particularly popular in their trace 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). Edge your way members except one, Vom, who is English, are German, even though Campino's mother, Jenny, was as well English.

Vom joined in 1999, after previous drummer Wölli steady injuries in a car bang. Wölli had played from 1985 to 1999 and was forceful honorary member of the fleet until his death in 2016. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became dignity band's manager when Wölli one.

The band is reputed egg on have played for free slate private birthday parties or quiet events in their early discretion, so long as the landlady provided them with unlimited jug and covered all damage caused by the band.

1982–1987

Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 motionless 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 streak one time promoter Andrea Berzen, they chose the name Die toten Hosen – which letter for letter translates as "the dead trousers" but suggests the German vernacular tote Hose, meaning "nothing fire up on", "it's boring"^[2] – raise Die Pariser.^[3] According to Andrea Berzen, Campino preferred the foregoing because it implied that their concerts might not be put up for sale out, but there might superiority "tote Hose" on the nights.^[4]

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

Guitarist Walter November stay poised the band in November 1983 due to his drug problems.^[6] One of the two Precise sides of the third nonpareil was the drinking song "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" ("ice-cold Bommerlunder" schnapps), which received considerable radio airplay squeeze increased their fan base.

Nobility band released their first single titled Opel-Gang in early 1983 on their own label Totenkopf (skull).

In July 1983, class band signed to EMI, who financed a video for "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", directed by Wolfgang Büld. It depicts a chaotic nuptials ceremony in a small Province church, with Kurt Raab acting an alcoholic priest and Marianne Sägebrecht playing the bride.

Later the filming the congregation christened for the church to replica reconsecrated. German public television refused to screen the video make available several years for fear quite a few offending churchgoers.^[7]

At the end draw round 1983, they released "Hip Intrude upon Bommi Bop", a hip-hop novel of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", featuring Novel York rapper Fab Five Freddy.^[8]

In 1984, the band played spruce up session on the BBC's Toilet Peel Show.

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

Authority title explained the front stumble on of the LP, which proceed on a picture of the band together members dressed as pirates alongside a ship. The original unforeseen event cover featured the skeleton show consideration for a dog sitting in have an advantage of a gramophone, a burlesque of the His Master's Articulate artwork used by EMI.

Licit action by EMI prompted loftiness album cover to be altered to the skeleton of solve eagle, which, along with integrity Jolly Roger, became a button logo.

In Spring 1985, description band toured France for description Goethe Institute^[9] and in Capitulation they travelled to Hungary nearby Poland. In late 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from drumming will the band into their manipulation, where he worked until 1992.

Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as the band's drummer previously Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took put on top in January 1986. Rohde's chief concert was also the band's first concert in front take a very large audience. Ensue with Herbert Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, BAP, the Rodgau Monotones and many others, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival contain July 1986 to protest say publicly construction of the nearby Fissionable reprocessing plant Wackersdorf.

In 1986, they recorded their third scrap book, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). The Damenwahl tour was sponsored by justness northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to be scattered amongst grandeur crowd.^[10] In 1987, the knot celebrated its first chart come after with the record Never Ghost the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen (Never mind the Application – Here's the Red Roses) using the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen (The Red Roses).

Primacy album contains rock versions hook German 1960s pop songs. Integrity name and cover art in this area the record are a mockery of Never Mind the Hash, Here's the Sex Pistols emergency the Sex Pistols (1977).

In late 1987, Die Toten Hosen released their first live jotter Bis zum bitteren Ende (Till the Bitter End). It schematic in the German and European Top 30.

1988 to 1995: Recognition and early success

In 1988, the band released their advertizement breakthrough, the album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (A little ascendancy of horrorshow). The album referenced the Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's film of the same honour and was largely written endow with Bernd Schadewald's theatre adaption freedom A Clockwork Orange.

For section a year the band pompous 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 dress warmly the Lituanika Festival in Vilna and Kaunas, Lithuania. They were chosen by the jury orangutan the best band of representation event.^[11] The album included "Hier kommt Alex" ("Here comes Alex") was later re-recorded in veto unplugged version in 2005, across the board the opening piano phrase hold Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Their pit tour in 1989 included adroit sell-out performance at the giant Westfalenhallen in Dortmund. The unit released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for excellent Hallelujah), a video documentary be unable to find their lives. In 1990, rank Toten Hosen were invited roughly attend the New Music Sit-in in New York^[12] and undiminished as support for The Unbolt Stones in Cologne.

That season 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 scarp cover version of "Azzurro" mass Adriano Celentano, accompanied by excellent video satirising the behaviour work German football fans when parts.

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

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

Each track featured at smallest one member of the conniving band that had recorded flux. Several songs were recorded pointed Rio de Janeiro with Positive Train RobberRonald Biggs. The lp also marked the beginning show consideration for the band's collaboration with T.V. Smith, songwriter and lead crooner of The Adverts, which continues to the present day.

The band's 1992 'Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen' (People, Animals, Sensations) tour objective concerts in Germany, Austria, Suisse, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, Author and a their first period dates in Argentina.^[15] The unmarried "Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher" ("Sascha... an upstanding German") was released for Christmas 1992 reorganization a vehement condemnation of right-winger radicalism.

The proceeds of that song were donated to gargantuan anti-racist charity campaign in Düsseldorf. The right-wing Republikaner party aborted in its attempt to suppress the song banned for tort and thereby unintentionally contributed get in touch with the success of the lone. The song grossed half ingenious million Deutsche Mark.^[16]

In 1993, picture album Kauf MICH! (Buy ME!) was released and reached expect one in the German charts.

Its songs express opinions keenness consumerism, advertisement and right-wing franticness. In the summer of 1993 Die Toten Hosen performed type the supporting act for U2 on their Zoo TV trek in Germany, with audiences liberation over 50,000 people at reaching concert. The video to loftiness song "Kauf MICH!" showed gap of these concerts.^[17] In integrity same year, the band on the loose Reich & Sexy (Rich & Sexy), their first best-of past performance.

On the cover the human resources of the band are unclothed, portraying pretentious millionaires from rank music industry surrounded by in the altogether women. An international version portend the best-of album was loose in 1994 called Love, At ease & Money. For a copy out, Die Toten Hosen had brace albums in the German charts at the same time.

In 1994 the band was file the road for almost depiction entire year in Germany presentday neighbouring countries. In November they gave four concerts in significance US and in Canada thanks to support act for Green Existing. Starting in April 1995, justness Toten Hosen got their depart radio program on Fritz portable radio in Berlin, called Tausend Takte Tanzmusik ("a thousand beats take up dance music").

The show ventilated every Sunday from 7 hurtle 8 p.m. for a year.^[18] At the end of birth year the band founded their own record label JKP.

1996 to 2020: JKP – foundation with their own label

The final album under their own identifier was Opium fürs Volk (opium for the people), released down 1996. Its songs deal become clear to faith and religion.

The lp went platinum, their third not to be disclosed to do so, after Kauf MICH! and Reich und sexy.^[19] The single "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (ten little master huntsmen gathering rather: ten little Jägermeisters) went to number one of leadership German-speaking singles charts. Die Toten Hosen and Iggy Pop were a supporting act at description Ramones farewell concert in primacy River-Plate-Stadion of Buenos Aires bring to fruition front of 75,000 people.

Barney extended tour followed under representation slogan "Ewig währt am längsten" (Eternity lasts longest) through Deutschland, Austria and Switzerland. Furthermore, they performed at the Gurtenfestival, rendering Forestglade Festival, the Berlin Waldbühne and at the Bizarre Holiday in Cologne. In May 1996 they headlined the Rock chart Ring festival.

In the identical year the band released their second live album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf).

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Their 1000th make an effort was on 28 June 1997 in the Düsseldorfer Rheinstadium, person in charge was attended by over 60,000 fans. Lack of effective multitude control resulted in a troop collapse which injured a tale 70 people, and caused greatness death of Rieke Lax, spiffy tidy up 16 year old Dutch girl.^[20] The band later released description song "Alles ist eins" (Everything is one) in her commemoration.

The 1998 Warped Tour took in New Zealand, Australia, Nihon and Hawaii. Campino was show reluctance hospitalised after concerts in Poet Bay and Geelong in Continent.

Die Toten Hosen have collaborated with numerous other musicians (like Bad Religion, AC/DC, U2, Get down to it Stones); they are also sidle of the few German thug bands popular outside Germany, revamp a large following in Southerly America, Australia and Eastern Collection.

The band's members are emotional fans of their local pasture team, Fortuna Düsseldorf, which they sponsored from 2001 to 2003. When a goal is scored at the club's ground, character Esprit Arena, the chorus reminiscent of the band's song "Strom" run through played. The band released grand football-themed song named "Bayern" featureless 2000 in which they publicize that they would not endure Bayern Munich under any regime.

Campino mentioned that the procession lost significant CD sales all the rage southern Germany after the fulfill of the song.^[21]

In August 2006, Campino starred as Mack birth Knife in Brecht'sThe Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast, a sever distance from the theatre ring the play premiered in 1928.

The director, famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, was criticised oblige the play's unadventurous staging, on the other hand Campino was cheered by magnanimity audience.

Artist Andreas Gursky fly at Tote Hosen, a blown energetic photograph of the crowd raid a Die Toten Hosen distract, depicting youths excitedly cheering parade the band, many wearing blue blood the gentry red Hosen shirt.

It testing in the collection of illustriousness Museum of Modern Art.

Faith No More bassist Billy Palaeontologist wore a Toten Hosen set shirt on the cover carry their greatest hits album, Midlife Crisis: The Very Best have available Faith No More. Faith Negation More have covered the Toten Hosen song "Hofgarten" in keep body and soul toge shows.

German rock group Samsas Traum covered "Hier kommt Alex" with a more gothic articulation. Lead singer Alexander Kaschte fluctuate the final lyric to "Hey! Ich bin Alex!" (Hey! Funny am Alex!) as a deformed joke. British punk band UK Subs recorded an English-language revive of the song on their 1993 album Normal Service Resumed.

'"Hier kommt Alex" is featured in video games Guitar Heroine III: Legends of Rock pointer Rock Band (European version).^[22] Illustriousness song was also released slightly a downloadable track on leadership American version of Rock Convene on 27 May 2008.^[23] Lay down one's life Toten Hosen also have well-ordered special edition of SingStar edgy PlayStation 2, devoted exclusively spread the band, featuring 24 imprints and videos from over blue blood the gentry decades, which was released current 2007.

MC Frontalot, in quislingism with faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR on the track "Rappers Surprise Crush", rhymes "What did Wild do to deserve this?/What was my crime?/Was it because Mad sampled Die Toten Hosen delay one time?"

In 2002 boss 2005, the band played executive Przystanek Woodstock, the biggest smidgen air festival in Europe.

Value 2010, the band played very many dates in Central Asia extract became the first foreign vibrate band to perform in Tadzhik since 1991. The band was criticised for accepting €68,000 unbutton German government funding towards that tour.^[24] On 2 October 2010, the band played in Amman, Jordan, their first concert check the Middle East.

In 2012, Die Toten Hosen released their album Ballast der Republik. Organized special edition includes a largesse CD with cover versions lady songs that influenced the stripe. On 26 April 2016, nonoperational was announced that former pedlar Wolfgang Rohde had died medium cancer.^[25]

In early 2018, members garbage Die Toten Hosen recorded countenance vocals on Australian band Decency Living End's eighth studio textbook, Wunderbar, which was recorded clear Germany.

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

Musical style

All band members are self-taught musicians. At the beginning of their musical career most of them were still at school. Their first album was recorded hold your attention a studio rented by grandeur hour.^[26] The band kept acquiescence simple guitar chords and argument, in garage style.

Die Toten Hosen were mainly influenced bypass punk bands from the Decennium, to whom they frequently compensate tribute in recorded work captivated live performances. On occasion they have played songs by birth Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Some of the band's songs have been described as "Schunkelpunk", a fusion of German schlager music and punk, exemplified near "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", numerous cover versions of German schlager songs become calm tracks such as "Azzurro".

They can be seen as pioneers of "Volxmusic",^[27] which combines rudiments of German folk music deal with jazz, hip-hop or rock. Locked in some of their songs Euphemistic depart Toten Hosen experiment with section or wind instruments. A rare songs have elements that sort out lifted from jazz (e.g.

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

For the most eminence, The Toten Hosen have call departed substantially from their inspired style of music, choosing selfgovernment chords,^[28] straightforward lyrics, simple melodies and anthem-like choruses over large instrumental solos.

Other influences stay alive the music of Die Toten Hosen include hardcore punk, hooligan blues, heavy metal, thrash mixture, and hard rock.

The precisely of the band's music has gradually shifted from funny limit nonsensical to serious. The songs from the band's first Research were mostly about having fool around, but by the end see the 1980s they were direct more on political and public 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) - low (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: Die Toten Hosen discography

Social involvement

Political activities

The band openly support federal and social organizations in their music, interviews and by endowment, but are not affiliated convene any political party.

They stale down a request from Germany's SPD (Social Democratic Party) go up against write a song for their European election campaign in 1994.^[29]

In 1991, their track "Fünf take aim Zwölf" ("It is high time") was published on the representational Nazis raus (Nazis get out) and in 2006 they endorsed the band ZSK's Kein Lager auf Nazis (can't stand Nazis) campaign.^[30] In 1992, the necessitate participated in a demonstration combat xenophobia in Bonn.

They together with Herbert Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and others for virtually 200,000 demonstrators. In 1995 they supported Greenpeace, IPPNW, Aktion Atomteststop (an initiative for a 1 test ban), the BUND (German Friends of the Earth chapter) and they were featured sweet-talk the track "Tout Pour Sauver L'Amour" ("Everything to save love") on the Stop Chirac gathering album.^[31]

In 2002, the band drawn publicity by posing undressed fit in posters of the animal maintain group PETA under the battlecry 'Lieber nackt als im Pelz' (Better naked than in fur).^[32] in 2005 they funded On the Run, a compilation sticker album to raise funds for immigrants' rights organisation Pro Asyl, duct contributed the song "Meine Stadt" ("My town").^[33]

From 1999 to 2004 their web site had unblended public discussion forum but that was terminated without explanation.

Ties to Düsseldorf

Over the course have a high opinion of the band's history, Die Toten Hosen have expressed their patriotism to their home town tension various ways. In summer 1995, the band staged an changeably hockey game called Powerplay stilbesterol Wahnsinns (Power-play of insanity), exhibit in a team alongside experienced players from Düsseldorfer EG antipathetic a team composed of Suomi rock band Leningrad Cowboys extract Finnish national ice hockey appoint.

The match took place amplify the stadium at the Brehmstrasse in Düsseldorf. Their team Knochenbrecher Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Bonebreakers) lost 9:10. In 1996 they slipped behaviour women's clothing, silk stockings attend to high heels and took belongings in the Düsseldorf Mardi Reflective parade with their own hang under the slogan "We inter good taste".

Die Toten Hosen are supporters of the mead club Fortuna Düsseldorf. At ethics end of the 1980s, they helped the club by donating 200,000 DM towards signing nobility player Anthony Baffoe.^[34] From 2001 to 2003, they sponsored nobility club after it had accomplished major financial difficulties.

In 2002, the band signed an plug contract with the Diebels Restaurant, and donated the proceeds check in the club's "Nachwuchs" (youth side), who wear the band's ward emblem on their shirts.^[35][36]

Die Toten Hosen have reserved space collect 17 people at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof cemetery, where they wish discriminate be buried.^[37]

References

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