H Groenemeyer seen on Jools Holland

[ABBAFAN]

Just watched 'Later with Jools holland' on British forces Broadcasting and the man from Das Boot was on. I was vaguely aware he was in music. Does anyone here know of his work?

[CCIP]

Haha, in Germany he's definitely not known as "the man from Das Boot". As Wikipedia says, "His fifth album 4630 Bochum (1984) and his 20th album Mensch (Human) (2002) are the best-selling German-language records of all time"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Gr%C3%B6nemeyer

So he's a popular "adult contemporary" singer, I suppose. Here's the sort of stuff he does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC81i2M30Bc

[Skybird]

One could rate him as one name of the top lineup in German pop music. Very successful indeed. In germany, almost never is his past in Das Boot mentioned, he did not split career in music and movies, but after the film focussed on music exclusively. Personally, his music is not my taste, also, in parts he mumbles his texts, in parts presses them with a painful push out form his stomach and into acoustic being - I really think it is a very strange way of singing that he is practicing. But some of the songs he writes, are good on paper - some, not all. I would have preferred he left it to songwriting. Singing is the thing he just can't. It'S more a yelling, balking, muttering. Strange you can become financially successful when doing singing like this. Never understood that.

[Dan D]

So he's a popular "adult contemporary" singer, I suppose. Here's the sort of stuff he does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC81i2M30Bc

Well, his music is not always that sad. That music he made after his wife had died of cancer.

Grönemeyer's song about his native city "Bochum" which is "Bochum" is the football anthem of my favourite team "VFL Bochum 1848". When your are in the stadium and thousands of people sing to this song, that sounds great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVdVFD-BpAQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8nmqtaroIQ


BOCHUM (English Translation)
Deep in the West
where the sun is dusty
it is better
much better than one thinks
deep in the West
deep in the West

You're no beauty
all gray from work
you love yourself without makeup
you're an honest sort
unfortunately totally congested
but that's just what makes you

You have a pulse of steel
one hears it (beating) loudly in the night
you're simply too modest
your mine gold
has lifted us up again
you flower in the coal fields

Bochum,
I come from you
Bochum,
I'm fond of you
Good luck, Bochum!
[Glück auf! is a German miners greeting.]

You're no metropolis (world city)
on your Königsallee
there are no fashion shows [as in Düsseldorf]
here, where the heart still counts,
not big money
who wants to live in Düsseldorf

Bochum...

You are a home for pigeons [Himmelbett = four-poster bed]
and constantly on coke
your summerhouse in an allotment garden
with your one-two pass you make
every opponent all wet
you and your VfL [soccer team]

Bochum...

- from the album 4630 BOCHUM (1984)

Sorry for that, Penguin.

[nikimcbee]

Didn't know he was from Bochum?:haha: All of the exchange students we had at my school were from Bochum.

[Dan D]

Not only school exchange students come from Bochum. A couple of actors in the movie "Das Boot" are from the Bochum drama school actually, not only Grönemeyer but also "Frenssen","IIWO"(red hair guy) and Dieselheizer Ario at least.

So yes, Bochum is the place to be.

Still a good actor in his music videos:
Herbert Grönemeyer - Fanatisch (Official Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYfv03i9zT0&feature=relmfu)