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Photo: Anna Wyszomierska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

“There is nothing less interesting than making a “best of”.”<\/strong> (Marian Gold)<\/p>\n\n

Almost to the day on the 40th anniversary of “Forever Young” on the occasion of the best-of “Forever! Best of 40 Years”, which will be released on September 27, 2024, we meet up with Alphaville<\/strong> for a chat.\nA well-coiffed Marian Gold<\/strong> quickly captivates us with his lively narrative style.\nIt’s all about astral companions, full-blooded people and David Bowie<\/strong>… <\/p>\n\n

“A very moving moment.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

How does it feel to look back on such a long career?\nGold reflects briefly: “It’s a pretty great feeling. But it takes a while to sink in. I’m a person who lives in the present. In all these 40 years, I’ve only ever focused on what was right in front of me. We resisted making a “best of” for decades.\nFrom an artistic point of view, there’s nothing less interesting than doing a “best-of”.\nBut after 40 years, it’s different because you’re putting yourself back together again.\nYou suddenly find yourself in a kind of panorama, surrounded by all kinds of things you’ve done in your life.\nOnly then do you realize how far you’ve come.\nA very moving moment.” <\/p>\n\n

“… always an improvisational element.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

For Alphaville<\/strong>, it ultimately doesn’t feel like a “best-of”, but more like a new studio album.\nAfter all these years, Gold is still discovering new facets to the songs.\nEspecially when it comes to the stage.\n“There is always an improvisational element in the live performance,” he explains.\n“The piece tells you something new, and that’s only because you’re performing it right now. If it hadn’t happened at this exact moment, you would never have received this new information.” <\/p>\n\n

“…the last innocent decade …”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Many people like to look back nostalgically on the 1980s as the last decade without smartphones and the Internet. What positive things did Marian take away from this decade? “That the eighties were the last innocent decade of the Western world,” he answers promptly. That’s why they were already over in 1986, namely on April 24, 1986 with the Chernobyl disaster. Because that was the first time it became clear that everything wasn’t just happening in the movies, but in reality.” He becomes thoughtful: “If you look at the songs that really mattered in the eighties … almost all of them were written between 1979 and 1986. The nineties actually began in mid-86. That’s also reflected in the music. Bands like \nNirvana<\/strong> would never have fitted into the eighties.\nThat kind of disillusionment.\nPeople wouldn’t have understood that at all.\nIt was a completely new way of perceiving things.\nThe eighties, on the other hand, were the Western world’s last wet dream, so to speak.” <\/p>\n\n

In the next part, we talk about positive things in the present, influences and dreams that come true.<\/p>\n\n

Katrin Hemmerling<\/p>\n\n

Experience ALPHAVILLE live:<\/strong>November 02, 2024 DE-Kempten, bigBox Allg\u00e4uNovember 03, 2024 ZH-Zurich, KongresshausNovember 16, 2024 DE-Bremen, Metropol TheaterNovember 17, 2024 DE-L\u00fcneburg, LKH ArenaNovember 29, 2024 DE-Lingen (Ems), Emsland ArenaNovember 30, 2024 DE-Wetzlar, Buderus ArenaDecember 10, 2024 DE-Nuremberg, MeistersingerhalleDecember 11, 2024 DE-Pforzheim, CongressCentrumJanuary 23, 2025 DE-Kiel, Wunderino ArenaJanuary 24, 2025 DE- Hanover, Swiss Life HallFebruary 06, 2025 DE-D\u00fcsseldorf, Mutsubishi Electric HalleFebruary 07, 2025 DE-Bochum, RuhrCongressFebruary 13, 2025 DE-Berlin, TempodromFebruary 14, 2025 DE-Hamburg, Inselpark ArenaFebruary 22, 2025 AT-Vienna, Raiffeisen Hall in the GasometerMarch 01, 2025 DE-Freiburg, KonzerthausMarch 02, 2025 DE-Frankfurt, Myticket JahrhunderthalleMarch 08, 2025 DE-Mannheim, Rosengarten MozartsaalMarch 09, 2025 DE-Bielefeld, StadthalleMarch 17, 2025 DE-Magdeburg, Getec ArenaApril 14, 2025 DE-Stuttgart, Liederhalle HegelsaalApril 15, 2025 DE-Saarbr\u00fccken, SaarlandhalleApril 29, 2025 DE-Leipzig, Quarterback Immobilien ArenaApril 30, 2025 DE-Dresden, Messe Dresden, Hall 1May 27, 2024 DE-Munich, Circus KroneMay 30, 2024 DE-M\u00fcnster, Messe+Congress Centrum Halle M\u00fcnsterlandAugust 23, 2024 DE-Latschach, Burgarena Finkenstein<\/p>\n\n

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