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Thomas Natschinski And His Group
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In the early 60's the beat started its triumphal march around the world. The Beatlemania also gripped the GDR in 1963 and encouraged many young people to take up the guitar. In 1964 a '1st Forum of the Followers of Guitar Music' took place in Berlin, and in April 1965 the FDJ, which at that time considered the beat to be a "progressive phenomenon of dance music development", called for a central performance comparison of the guitar groups within the framework of the movement of young talents. After the Germany meeting in 1964 the then music student Thomas Natschinski and the high school student, lyricist and songwriter Hartmut König (both born 1947) founded the Beatgruppe Team 4 in Berlin. They played Beatles and Rolling Stones titles and also wrote their own pieces from the beginning. The appearances in schools and gyms were soon followed by first recordings on the radio station DT 64 and a performance on the youth television programme 'Basar'.
At the end of 1965, a cultural-political ice age began in the GDR, which led to a de facto ban on beats. Erich Honecker accused the FDJ of "overlooking the fact that the opponent exploits this kind of music in order to turn young people into excesses by exaggerating the beat rhythms". Team 4 was one of the few bands allowed to continue. It was stylized as a figurehead of "socialist beat music", but at the beginning of 1967 it got caught up in the whirlpool of a campaign against 'Anglicisms' and now called itself 'Thomas Natschinski und seine Gruppe' in order not to jeopardize its first LP 'Die Straße'. According to the music journalist Olaf Leitner, it marked "in advance everything that will henceforth distinguish GDR rock or put it on the sidelines: Beautiful melodies, but also the slightly rancid pathos in the claim to the great art design. The lyrics are at times mystical, and the metaphor finds its way into pop music, the magic medium that will later be used to trick the censor into presenting the truth." Nevertheless it was "the first German Beat-, or even Rock-LP from the BRDDR. Your children, the pioneers of the West, were 68 years old in the basement." (Olaf Leitner)
The Team 4-/Natschinski-Band was in close connection with the forming singing movement, already through the lyricist and songwriter Hartmut König, but also through many joint appearances with the Hootenanny-/Oktoberklub. "At that time there was no 'rock scene' in the GDR, there was the 'pop scene', from which we separated ourselves. And there was the singing movement to which we felt related," said Thomas Natschinski about this time. He later played in other bands, produced with various interpreters and composes music for show and revue programmes, documentaries and feature films.
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