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The Lords: Some Folks By The Lords, Plus (CD)

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A beat band was the best school of life, I once claimed in a lecture, and Peter Max 'Bi' Donath also sees it that way. You developed creativity, learned social skills like teamwork, adaptability, the ability to compromise. One acquired logistical skills and learned how to handle money. More or less, but more about that later.

Max Donath: "How long can we make beat music? Those were our thoughts. Will I still have work tomorrow?" Well, he would eventually realize that he no longer had one, but by then he had spent nine years cavorting with his buddies on the stages of the European continent.

The whole thing had been started by Wolfgang 'Wuffi' Hinneberg (??), who had the idea of launching a skiffle band. And when Ulrich 'Ulli' Günther joined the band, he not only had a nose for the visual aspect, but also occupied the position of bandleader surprisingly fast. The bowler hat, the bow tie, the black vest and the white shirt were obligatory for the Skiffle Lords, as were the white spats later on.

In the line-up Wuffi Hinneberg (guitar), Rainer 'Gandy' Petry (guitar), Reinhard 'Löffel' Gieloff (washboard), Klaus-Peter 'Leo' Lietz (banjo), Andreas 'Andy' Neumann (guitar) and Ulli Günther (teakettle bass) they played their way through Berlin, won on 8. April 1961 (before the New Skiffle Spirits) they won the 'Golden Washboard' in the Schöneburg Sports Hall and received it - in miniature and made of brass - from the Senator for Youth and Sports. A generous Englishwoman donated 110 Marks for the winners - all of them with bowler hats, except Wuffi, who only got a papier-mâché cylinder - which the band planned to spend on a guitar.

When Leo Lietz changed from banjo to melody guitar, the modern times were satisfied. In 1962, the Skifflers switched to twist - for they had already lost Wuffi and Andy, who had seen their future away from skiffle in rock 'n' roll and formed the Hinneberg Combo (later The Phantoms). The Lords gained a drummer, Peter Hauke, to replace 'Löffel', the legendary washboard player. A bass player was also added. By the fall of 1963, Peter Max 'Bi' Donath had arrived with his drums to replace Hauke, who had left to join The Tornados (later The Rollicks). Max Donath soon brought his friend Knud Kuntze into the Lords as bassist.

With moderate success, The Lords played in smaller venues in Berlin without causing any sensation until United Artists announced a competition to find the 'German Beatles' for the premiere of the Beatles movie 'Yeah Yeah Yeah'. The Lords minus Gandy plus Wuffi, who helped out, won the title of 'Berlin Beatles' on July 21, 1964, and from then on were not only allowed to open the screening of the Beatles film musically, but were also admitted to the final battle in Hamburg's Star Club. Actually, they didn't have any Beatles numbers in their program, but From Me To You and Please Mr Postman were rehearsed for the competition.

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Interpret: The Lords
Album titlle: Some Folks By The Lords, Plus (CD)
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Genre Beat
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127171252
weight in Kg 0.115

Lords, The - Some Folks By The Lords, Plus (CD) CD 1
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02	My Laggan Love	The Lords
03	Miss Otis Regrets	The Lords
04	Where Could I Go	The Lords
05	The Ballad Of The Condemned Man	The Lords
06	The Valley Of The Moon	The Lords
07	I'll Go Crazy	The Lords
08	Over The Rainbow	The Lords
09	East Virginia	The Lords
10	Sing Hallelujah	The Lords
11	Nobody's Child	The Lords
12	San Miguel	The Lords
13	Greensleeves (mono mix)	The Lords
14	Sing Hallelujah (mono mix)	The Lords
15	What They Gonna Do (mono mix)	The Lords
16	The Ballad Of The Condemned Man (mono mix)	The Lords

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"The Lords"

The Lords

In the 1960s the Lords were Berlin's most successful beat band and, measured by record sales and concert audiences, effectively Germany's number-one beat band. Their roots go back to the Skiffle Lords, officially founded on 15 January 1960 around Ulrich 'Ulli' Günther, Wolfgang 'Wuffi' Hinneberg and Andreas 'Andy' Neumann. After success in skiffle contests – including the Golden Washboard they won in 1961 – they switched to electric guitars and conquered the charts.

The Lords always saw themselves as an audiovisual total work of art. Their uniform stage image – first black suits with white spats and bowler hats, later colourful costumes and, around 1968, fantasy uniforms – stemmed from Lord Ulli's idea. Add to that rehearsed little dance steps and gags such as the microphone that kept sinking lower, and the young loved it; their second LP sold 40,000 copies – a gigantic figure for the time.

With the Rattles the Lords shared a rivalry hyped by the press, which both bands themselves took calmly. Over time musicians such as Rainer 'Gandy' Petry, Klaus-Peter 'Leo' Lietz on banjo and, in 1963, drummer Peter 'Bi' Donath joined the line-up. The Lords were on stage for more than forty years. At their anniversary show in October 1999, frontman Lord Ulli suffered a heart attack and died a few days later – a tragic break in the band's long history.

The beginnings were modest: in youth centres the Skiffle Lords played for two Cokes a fee, travelling by S-Bahn and on foot with their instruments on their shoulders. But they soon outgrew their home halls and toured the cities of West Germany. Alongside Lord Ulli, musicians such as the eloquent Leo Lietz shaped the image of a band that deliberately set itself apart from the Hamburg competition.

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