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LP APOCALYPSE
Apocalypse
Country of release: Germany, 2014
Original released: 1969
Label: Long Hair Music
Catalogue number: LHC135
Barcode: 4035177001358
Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Nein/No
incl. 4 Pages Insert
Condition Record: MINT
Condition Cover: MINT
LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks Side 1:
1. Life Is Your
Profession
2. Let It Die
3. Patricia
4. Reflection Of A
Summer (Bonustrack)
Tracks Side 2:
1. Milkman
2. Try To
Please Me
3. Pictures Of My Woman
4. Linda Jones
5. Blowing
In Blow
Listen At YouTube:
Apocalypse, from Kiel, started life as 'Die Anderen'
(trans: The Others) in 1966. ( ) After becoming 'Apocalypse' in 1968, they
recorded one album before splitting. One name connected to the band that most
Germans will know is singer Jürgen Drews. He is now the self-appointed "King of
Mallorca", a favourite holiday island of Germans, where he is a frequent
entertainer. He was also in the 'Les Humphries Singers', a popular group started
by an Englishman in Germany that had many singers, including John Lawton of
later Uriah Heep and Lucifer's Friend fame ( ). Apparently the Apocalypse album
is an early production job of Giorgio Moroder, which does not surprise after
hearing the quality and atmosphere of it. ( ) 'Life Is Your Profession' has an
epic, rousing intro and ends up in some great progressive psych.
(aftersabbath.com)
An early Moroder production. I am not kidding!
It
was actually recorded and released in 1969, not 1970. ( ) I like this album a
lot. Very psychedelic, but also krauty on the other hand. Maybe Kraut Psych?
Great Sitars, and especially great when blending in with Juergen Drews' voice.
Now, Non-Germans will not know that dude, but every single German knows
him. He is the self-declared "King of Mallorca". That island off Spain is the
favourite vacation place for Germany's White Trash. (Compare to Cancun for
Americans.) The main kind of entertainment there is to get drunk out of buckets
filled with cheapest red wine.
Now, that is where our Juergen finds his
audience nowadays. Unfortunately, his songs have to fit that audience, and he
plays his role pretty well.
But those who know him say that he is absolutely
not that idiot he is pretending to be, that he is in fact a well educated, very
intelligent man, even sensitive. He was supposed to become a doctor, at least
his parents expected him to.
Well, this is the group (first named "Die
Anderen", then renamed into Apocalypse) that got him off that academic trail.
After this group he joined the Les Humphries Singers (late 1970), and when
they stopped existing in the summer of 1976, he immediately had his first (and
biggest) hit with the german version of Bellamy Brothers' "Let your love flow"
(his version, of course, was "Ein Bett im Kornfeld").
Now, knowing all this
and then seeing the 60-year-old performing in a sleazy way with 20-year-old
dancers (girls) on stage, one might not believe that this same guy was really a
member of this Kraut Psych group Apocalypse, and that he really sang on this
record.
But yes, it was really him, and I believe (personally) that this was
in a time when he made music for fun, not to pay the mortgage.
Dear Juergen,
you went a long, long way. (albgardis/rateyourmusic.com)
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