Alphaville - Big In Japan (Flashlights, 01.02.1984)
Музыка
FLASHLIGHTS, OR HOW BOB DYLAN SENT US AN ANGEL
Marian Gold on Alphaville's very first TV appearance on the ZdF TV show "Flashlights".
If you want to step into the limelight for the first time in your life with a few decent songs, and suddenly the world that previously ignored you is spinning like a carousel gone mad, then a prime-time TV date doesn't stand out that much in all the confusion. And as this date becomes more and more prominent among all those radio interviews, clothes shopping sessions, pages of contract blahblah, third-class hotel rooms and sanctimonious tartuffs, who wouldn't have lent you a euro a few months ago, you start to worry. None of us had the faintest idea of all the promotional gimmicks it takes to catch the eye and interest of the public in a sea of competing cheap-Jacks. Landing this gig was a unique opportunity that we couldn't afford to blow. Did we have stage fright? Yes, we did. During the rehearsals, the three and a half meters from the Japanese wooden chair, where I was condemned to sit by stage directions, to the microphone at the edge of the stage felt like a tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon. And what did we have to offer anyway besides our Norwegian jumpers, which we hated, our iron Eastwestfalian stubbornness, which had led up to this point despite all our self-doubt, and an inexplicably precise intuition for the right decisions? That we were in fact brilliant songwriters with a major hit in our luggage we didn't know at the time ... however, we suspected it.
So there we were, sitting in the dressing room of the ZdF Broadcasting Centre in Mainz, eagerly awaiting our very first television appearance. At some point we were ordered into make-up one after the other and when I finally wanted to go back to our dressing room, all festively painted, I promptly got lost in the maze of corridors in the building.
And suddenly, like an apparition from another world, Joan Baez stood right before me. What I haven't mentioned yet - the evening's programme consisted of her, Gazebo, Udo Lindenberg and us greenhorns, a pretty bizarre line-up from today's perspective, but back then we had other problems, mainly to do with our pullovers, which were miserably itchy. Joan, who at best might have heard of Gazebo, was still able to categorise me correctly. Looking at my woollen outfit, she spread her arms and said in her broadest American accent: "Oh, how sweet, you must be from this German newcomer band. I heard your song during the rehearsal, I really like it." And with these words she hugged me and gave me a friendly kiss. - What can I say? Joan was an idol to me, a legend of US country and folk music, a veritable political activist, companion to Bob Dylan and a bright star in the rock'n'roll sky of my sleepless nights. Could it be that I had just felt on my cheek the lips that had no doubt already graced sainted Bob on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean? I felt completely flattened and this happiness gave me angel wings as I crossed the Grand Canyon an hour later together with Frank, Bernard and "Big In Japan".
Footage licensed from ZDF Studios. All rights reserved.
#alphaville
#biginjapan #foreveryoung #1984
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Anyone in 2024?❤
@vessto
2 ай бұрын
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@dorinamihalache6671
2 ай бұрын
👍😊Me too, I've been listening to this masterpiece ever since! This song can listening every time and everywhere, it doesn't lose it's magic. ✨🎶✨
@anikokarolyi1072
2 ай бұрын
❤
@user-be2vi8in2r
2 ай бұрын
Я
@denabedri4034
2 ай бұрын
Yup 🎉
Quem aí ouvindo este obra prima musical em 2024? 🙋♂️🇧🇷
@vessto
3 ай бұрын
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@Urusmartan687
3 ай бұрын
🙋
@carlosfrancisco8515
3 ай бұрын
Opa tamos juntos!!!
@claricedeassis5360
3 ай бұрын
fevereiro
@user-gt4ey7vt9i
3 ай бұрын
Beaucoup de monde. Dont moi😂
40 лет,а как будто вчера!!!!! Мы всегда будем слушать музыку нашей молодости!!! Такие хиты навсегда с нами!
@eduardolima3138
3 ай бұрын
Concordo plenamente com a sua opinião 👏👏👏👏👏👏
@marceauxhugues8731
3 ай бұрын
Exactement ❤👍🇫🇷
@dawnjeanballard2874
2 ай бұрын
Makes me feel old. O wait. I am 😂😅
@wagnarmontelo2408
2 ай бұрын
Simplesmente maravilhosa 🤩👏👏👏👏
@PavelNasyrov
2 ай бұрын
Одна из лучших песен!!!
Мне было 15 лет, когда первый раз услышала эту песню . Сейчас мне 55 лет. Но, в душе те же 15, когда слышу эту песню! Супер! Зажигает сердце! Дрожь бежит по жилам! Даль , что то время прошло! Но песня всё время напоминает о том, подростковом возрасте! Клааааааааааасная песня! Вечно молодая!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@user-zr1sn3gk5f
3 ай бұрын
Мне 52 года. 🤝 Тоже подпеваю, как и раньше. 👍
@maksimsmirnov1512
3 ай бұрын
Ровесница,полностью с тобой согласен!Нам повезло,мы родились и выросли в лучшее время на земле,став свидетелями рождения величайших событий и замечательных хитов!👏❤❤❤❤❤
@clarafisher2991
3 ай бұрын
Моя однаклассница из греции привезла диск, магнитофон японский и на кассету этот диск уже переписанный. Это был 1984
@andro1263
3 ай бұрын
@@clarafisher2991какой диск в 1984 году? Пластинки и катушки. Кассеты относительно недавно появились в союзе. Дефицит.
@user-lv9mr2qh4t
3 ай бұрын
@@andro1263 на ДВ дефицита не было ни в кассетах ни в магнитофонов Япония была рядом
I'm happy for the fact this song exists, I'm not happy by the fact we'll never have masterpieces like this again.
@AlexMelnikovV
Ай бұрын
Почему же, будет
@Mark-vc1dr
Ай бұрын
Never is a long time.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ehilton7044
Ай бұрын
Love this x
@natashalimarenco7733
10 күн бұрын
❤❤❤песни юности,
Who is listening to this song now?
@vessto
3 ай бұрын
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@alnash1227
3 ай бұрын
💥🎧💓
@bangs415
3 ай бұрын
I've been listening to this song for years and it's still on my playlist.
@sonyasanchez2385
2 ай бұрын
Yo desde España
@xrysoulaveresoglou8679
2 ай бұрын
From Greece
Still listening 2024 ❤
@nadiapienar8464
Ай бұрын
Daa și noii 😊😊
@rudischmidt9680
26 күн бұрын
Geht unter die Haut Toller Song
You did it Alphaville... 40 years ago... You did it!!! Big inJapan was an immediate smashing hit and still is today in 2024!!! 🏆💎💯💖🍀🌟✨✨✨✨
@alnash1227
3 ай бұрын
✌🏻1984✌🏻💥✌🏻2024✌🏻
@carlosfrancisco8515
3 ай бұрын
Eu curto hoje e sempre!!!
@jasperbarlow2582
3 ай бұрын
Totally agree, i loved this tune when i was a spotty 13 year old, still love it now( 53 year old, have lost the spots though)
@dorinamihalache6671
3 ай бұрын
@@jasperbarlow2582 Thank you 👍😊🎶🎶🎶
@dorinamihalache6671
3 ай бұрын
@@carlosfrancisco8515 👍😊Yes, Amazing Alphaville and their music 💯🎶
Nobody can erase any part of his memory,i miss this great time when music was really MUSIC.
@nadiapienar8464
Ай бұрын
Daaa , ...Doamne ce muzica , ce timpuri de aurr am trait
@switchedon6530
17 күн бұрын
Totally agree...80's incredible music by a country mile👍🏴
💥Фанаты,не скупитесь на похвалы,ведь это звёздный час нашего любимого Alphaville!!!❤ 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Alphaville forever!!! ✌🏻🥰✌🏻
@vessto
3 ай бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤
Хит на века. И никто не кривляется и не дёргается, музыка огонь! Голоса круть! Чистый кайф!
🥰😍🤗 It seems like only yesterday... My dearest, lovely Alphaville. I love you so much. Here's to many more glorious forty years together...
@LeeWarne-qi6bk
3 ай бұрын
Here, here!! 🙌🫶 Incredible memories
@hai.1820
3 ай бұрын
Di mi? 🙃
@RealMozart
3 ай бұрын
And it was yesterday... 40 years ago...
@user-ud5me9rq1h
3 ай бұрын
Музыка на все времена это не Шаман
@user-ud5me9rq1h
3 ай бұрын
Музыка на все времена это не Шаман
Песня на времена. Прекрасная ностальгия по 80-м...
Неужели уже 40 лет прошло. А как будь-то было вчера. Во истину Forever Young!
The best! This is the first presentation on TV. 40 years ago! Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱
@mymoonams
3 ай бұрын
Bellos ❤
I'm 54 and love this song as much now as I did on its original release. In fact, probably more!
Это одна из моих любимых песен !!! Шикарная музыка !!!
This Song remains throughout decades and it's hipnotyzing
Perfect sound of his voice and synthesizers! 🌟💖The sound of this song, is huge, 🌟💖The Alphaville sound, unique💯🎶💖 After 40 years, the sound is still fresh and so AMAZING!!! 🎶🌟🎶
@vessto
3 ай бұрын
And the story in the description is great. So sweet he shared these memories. I wish I can back in time and hug and kiss this gorgeous epitome of male beauty too. 😊😊
@dorinamihalache6671
3 ай бұрын
@@vessto👍Yes great story, a little bit funny, but these are beautiful memories of the legendary Alphaville... At their very first TV Show!!! And we only got to know later about that remarkable day when Alphaville will perform Big inJapan on TV Show. And the pullovers were so itchy 😊, a little detail that I never knew. And how he get the kiss on his cheeks from Joan Baez... Very emotional and beautiful story 😊.... Yeah...if will be possible going back in time.... I will hug him too 🤗😘💓🌹✨✨✨
💥Ты дотронулся до наших сердец однажды... 💓🖐Оказалось, это роман длинною в жизнь... 💝Ваша навеки...🙏
шикарный голос... до мурашек... учитесь, рэпперы
I actually saw this on TV that very day! I remember those awful jerseys, the singer wearing those gloves, and that I instantly loved the song. I was nearly 13 years old then. Later, I bought the album when it came out. And I still think"Forever young" is one of the greatest pop albums of all time.
@andersquist8436
3 ай бұрын
I like their clothes 🇨🇦
Какие вы классные❤❤❤, нам тогда было по 18 лет, какое время!❤ Вы были мечтой многих!
Alguém ouvindo essa música linda em 2024 que marcou época !!!!!!!que saudade ❤❤🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
40 years later still same feeling❤
Memories don't fade they just haunt us. RIP my sweet Jenn.
I was born in 1984 and it is 2024 already...🎉
@maozedung7270
26 күн бұрын
I m in1948
Till the end of days this song will be big
The best hit!!! ✌️
Stunning beauty, stunning voice. Marian, you are one certified dopamine machine!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Rapaz, 40 anos hoje, em 01/02/2024. Incrível como não fica velha.
Молодость!!! Как будто бы всё было вчера!!!
Legend ❤ I adore Mariana’s magnetism
Мне тогда было 9 лет , это до сих пор звучит классно 🎹🥁🎸👍🎤
@user-us9nx6qv3i
2 ай бұрын
Я только в первый класс пошёл в '84ом году. 😢
@OlesyaGolyakova
2 ай бұрын
А мне было 4 годика))).
@user-pz8pz6ie2y
Ай бұрын
мне тоже было 9
@isabelvetkina
Ай бұрын
Мне 6😂
если один раз услышал эту группу в молодости, уже не забудешь. так и будет звучать всю жизнь. браво "Альфавил"!
@user-fh4ik8hx6s
2 ай бұрын
My favourite❤
@user-ss7fg9pr8e
Ай бұрын
C'est clair
I feel so emotional listening to this song, just going down memory lane growing up in Africa when this was released. 80s the best times in life
Какая красивая музыка была когда мне было 6 лет.. Жаль я это тогда не слышал,... Но сейчас с большим удовольствием слушаю. Спасибо с опозданием свом👏
Самое любимое произведение автора, музыка по истине отлично гармонирует со всем! Спасибо Вам!
Great music. Love the lyrics. Loved the delivery of the performance. Very addictive.
I love this song!!!
Не самая любимая композиция Alphaville, но когда я их первый раз услышал, лет 40 назад, был шокирован. Люблю и слушаю их до сих пор . Спасибо вам за то, что вы есть!
@alnash1227
3 ай бұрын
💓А какая самая любимая,если не секрет, конечно?✌🏻😉
@schmidt8744
3 ай бұрын
@@alnash1227 Их несколько, Sounds like a melody, For a million, A victory of love. Вот, эти, к примеру, чаще слушаю. Это не все, но так, для примера.
@alnash1227
3 ай бұрын
@@schmidt8744 💥Песни Alphaville,как звёзды в небе,каждая прекрасна по своему,у каждой свое неповторимое сияние.И порой,их сложно сравнивать по красоте музыки и стихов...Мне понравилось,как вы ответили:"Вот эти, к примеру,чаще слушаю..." И я сразу заглянула в свой плейлист, а там:"Astral Body"," Inside Out ","Soul Messiah"...Простите за мой вопрос,на который я сама не могу толком ответить...🙏
@schmidt8744
3 ай бұрын
@@alnash1227 да, Вы правы, их песни стоят как бы особняком. И какую ни возьми, каждая классная, и выбрать сложно "самую любимую".
@alnash1227
3 ай бұрын
@@schmidt8744 Точнее и не скажешь... И под каждое настроение есть своя песня...Спасибо за душевный диалог!
💥Thank you very much!🙏💓
What a brilliant start to this successful 40-year journey! 🎉🎉🎉 I love Alphaville!!!
@RafiqulIslam-hz3bm
2 ай бұрын
1984, I was 17 years 2024, I am 57 years old 40 years has gone ... But, that Song is same ... ... ...
Как же приятно видеть это видео в хорошем качестве. Ребята, вы потрясающие, сейчас таких не делают. С любовью❤❤❤.
Не видел их такими молодыми. Супер команда! Как всегда 80е - лучшие!!!
Хорошо оцифровали !!!! Качество огонь !!!
Thanks for share I love your music ❤❤❤
1980-1989 the Best Time forever ❤
@khaladsaad.al-mowallad6532
Ай бұрын
I strongly agree with you. I am a 45-year-old man. The best years of my childhood and adolescence were between 1989-1989. Good memories, my friend.👍
Какая же классная песня обожаю люблю❤
My favorite song. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Used to go to a place called Reflections in Toronto, 20 bucks in our pockets and spent all night drinking beers and bouncing around to great tunes like this....poor buggers nowadays, don't know what good times and freedom is, 80s you were the best, always alive in my mind
💥This is your first outing, Big in Japan! 💓Heart flutters... 🎉Happy anniversary, our favorite hit!!!🎉 ✌🏻🥰✌🏻
Вауууу.!! Это мои волшебные года 🎉. 80 - ве. Супер. Рулят. Самач круть. Мне 52..а душой там😜
Шедевр! ❤️❤️❤️ Качество видео просто супер! 👍
@vessto
3 ай бұрын
Да, ролик-диамант. 😊
❤ I like it 👏❤ Thank you very much ❤👋👋👋👋👋👋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Pra mim um clasico que marcou minha juventude, amo até hoje essa musica
@candiceeyraud7029
2 ай бұрын
1:23 pour moi c'était beaucoup plus le chanteur ❤️
Oh man ist das lange her ich war damals noch 13 als das raus kam.😉👍🧡🔥Alphaville for ever.❤❤❤
🔝📀 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👏😃❤ Благодарен за приятные воспоминания о нашей молодости. 👋😊
I am never tired to repeat. This is not just a song and this is not just a man. This is The Song and this is The Man.
You cant beat a CLASSIC.
Marian, you are a substance with triple action. My pulse, my blood pressure and my blood sugar go higher when you are on the screen. ❤❤❤
Para la eternidad este tema nunca morirá ❤ los amo !
i still remember these days...
It's been 40 years😱😱😱
Manchmal frage ich mich, wie mein Leben verlaufen wäre, wenn ich damals diesen euren Auftritt nicht im TV gesehen hätte....❤
One of the best songs of all time!!!💯🌟 🎶And Marian looks so damn cool!!!😘🌹✨ Alphaville, at the height of their powers!🌟 Love them! 💖
My love ❤
Meisterschaft! Marian and his kumpels made their mark in the history of German pop
Fantástico fantástica música ❤❤❤
Awesome song, forever!❤🔥
I never got tired of listening to masterpieces
This song, and also Forever Young, takes me back. I get that warm bright good feeling of youth and eternal possibilities. Love the 80s style synths and the culture of that decade.
Marzo 2024 ... bellissima canzone....i capolavori non muoiono mai ❤️
До сих пор актуально и завораживает! Навсегда!
Beautifull ❤
This song turns 40 years this year👌
@Jerseybytes2
4 күн бұрын
lol and now I feel ancient
Qu'ils étaient beaux 😊💚
@Inglidis
22 күн бұрын
Amo amor amo guitarra sou apaixonada por guitarra sou apaixonada por piano só apaixonada por bateria só apaixonada por violino sou apaixonada por você meu namorado do braço tatuado nos coreanos eu tô dançando ainda suga olha que lindo essa música eu dancei muito no passado e ela ainda toca muito no presente olha que coisa mais linda o passado nunca morre
@Inglidis
22 күн бұрын
Amo de paixão essa música mais antiga linda do mundo amo sou apaixonado por essa música
This song is beautiful, nice regards from Jarka
Muito bom 👏🏾❤️
Un saludo desde Paraguay 🇵🇾 Bendiciones..me encanta este tema hasta hoy día
love this melody, can`t forget it 💗💗
LOVE LOVE FROM SERBIA!
Amusing,i was born in September 1984😊😊😊,bat i like this
@vessto
Ай бұрын
Forever Young song was released in September 1984. 😊
@user-iv6js6ok4o
Ай бұрын
I dont know, 😊😊😊@@vessto
@vessto
Ай бұрын
@@user-iv6js6ok4o 😊😊👍👍
Lo mejor de lo mejor❤❤❤
Germany is a small part of the planet. But in Music it is huge. Alphaville, Kraftwerk, Scorpions, Modern Talking, Paul van Dyk, Westbam, Scooter, Bad Boys Blue, Masterboy, Purple Disco Machine and many, many other Synth-Pop and Disco stars from the 70s till now.
@Ci.Ci.980
Ай бұрын
👍🏻👌✌🤘💯
@PJPsounds
Ай бұрын
Lacrimosa, Garden of Delight, Merciful Nuns, Deine Lakaien, Diary of Dreams, Diorama, Umbra et Imago, Love Like Blood, X-Mal Deutschland, Anja Huwe, Das Ich, Wolfsheim, Project Pitchfork, Camouflage, De-Vision, Schiller, Dreadful Shadows, Tanzwut, Enigma,
@Dejan-gz6vz
Ай бұрын
Milli Vanilli, Boney M. and huge impact on classic music.
@vessto
Ай бұрын
@@Dejan-gz6vz Agree about Boney M. But Milli Vanilli... 🙁 Same as Den Harrow and Radiorama. Pretty faces lipsync others' voices.
@Dejan-gz6vz
Ай бұрын
@@vessto But was product of very rich German music production and was huge hit before issue with tape.
Eu amo demais está música ❤❤❤❤❤
Great band. Thanks for the music
this is...masterpiece!!!!!
Still just as amazing as it always was!
Merci ❤
Ese era un gran grupo
ALPHAVILLE ❤ chaque jour, pour toujours
Bugün bir yerde 40ncı yıldönümü olduğunu okudum ve sağlanan linkle buraya geldim. Dinleyince gençlik yıllarımı hatırladım. Bu şarkı, melodisi ve sözleriyle tam bir efsane.
Bons tempos. Era feliz e ñ sabia
Great song always on my mind,
YES! Great!
Me sigue gustando esta canción a mis 56 años ❤
@mariainmaculadaramosutrill1844
3 ай бұрын
Dear Mary im 58 & still do❤🎉
I AM VERY HAPPY TO LISTEN TO THE BEAUTIFUL AND FASCINATING SONG IN 80s
Saudadess❤ Excelente lembrança 🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Quanti ricordi sembra ieri top 🎉grandi