Wenn or WENN may refer to:

• WENN (AM), a radio station (1320 AM) licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Remember WENN, a television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on American Movie Classics
• World Entertainment News Network, an entertainment news wire service based in London, England
• Former callsign of WERC-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Hoover, Alabama, United States
• St Wenn, village and parish in the Restormel district of mid-Cornwall, United Kingdom
• Stuart Wenn, an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League

In German-language music:

• Wenn du da bist
• Wenn wir wollten
• Wenn alle untreu werden
• Wenn Der Letzte Schatten Fällt, album by L'Âme Immortelle
• Wenn der Himmel brennt

See also[link]

• Wenns, municipality in the Imst district of Austria

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Reinhard Mey
Reinhard Mey Live in Hamburg, 1974
Background information
Birth name	Reinhard Friedrich Michael Mey
Also known as	Frédérik Mey (in France)[1] Alfons Yondrascheck[1]
Born	(1942-12-21) December 21, 1942 (age 69) Berlin, Germany
Genres	Folk, chanson, skiffle
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Years active	1965–present
Labels	EMI
Website	www.reinhard-mey.de

Reinhard Friedrich Michael Mey (born December 21, 1942, Berlin) is a German singer-songwriter, known to fans as "Liedermacher". In France he is known as Frédérik Mey.

Mey has released 27 German albums so far by 2009, and consistently releases a new album approximately every two years; his first album was Ich wollte wie Orpheus singen (1967); the most recent studio album is Mairegen (2010). His biggest success to date was Mein Achtel Lorbeerblatt (1972). His most famous song by far is "Über den Wolken" (1974), which has been covered by numerous German artists. Mey is known to embark upon an extensive concert tour every two or three years, with a live album released from each tour.

Biography[link]

Reinhard Mey was born on December 21, 1942, in Berlin, Germany, where he spent his childhood. At the age of twelve, he had his first piano lesson, and at the age of fourteen, he got his first guitar. He taught himself how to play the trumpet. During his school years he gained performance experience by playing Skiffle music with friends. In 1965, Mey was offered the chance to perform at a Liedermacher festival at Waldeck Castle, a converted castle ruin. This led to his first recording contract. In 1961, he became part of the group Les Trois Affamés, with Schobert Scholz.

In 1963, Mey graduated from the French Gymnasium in Berlin, receiving the German Abitur as well as the French Baccalauréat, and thereafter began vocational training as an industrial trader at Schering AG Berlin. He broke off his university studies in economics in order to dedicate himself fully to songwriting and singing, and has been a successful performer in Germany, in France, and in the Netherlands ever since. He has written songs in German, French, Dutch, and Greek. He records his French material under the name of Frédérik Mey. In 1967, he married a French woman named Christine. Their marriage was dissolved in 1976.

Today, Mey lives in Berlin-Frohnau in his second marriage (since 1977) to Hella Hennies (born in Hannover), and had three children in the marriage: Frederik (born November 20, 1976), Maximilian (born January 28, 1982), and Victoria-Luise (born November 19, 1985).

On September 7, 2009 Reinhard Mey revealed in an interview on a German TV talk show that his son Maximilian had been in a persistent vegetative state since March 13, 2009. Undiagnosed severe pneumonia led to a cardio-pulmonary arrest, from which Max was resuscitated after eight minutes of hypoxia. Reinhard Mey and his family remain hopeful about a possible recovery and are focusing their energy on trying to coax Max out of his unresponsive state.

Lyrics and political views[link]

Mey writes both sensitive and humorous songs, with subject matter taken mostly from his everyday life and surroundings.^[2] His themes include life on the road, his hobbies (e.g., flying),^[3] childhood memories, his family life and surroundings, and occasionally politics.^[2] Many of his songs are humorous and demonstrate Mey's extraordinary linguistic versatility. Mey's songs are characterized most by their expressiveness of language and their penetrating melodies.

Mey's politics tend to be moderate to left-leaning. He speaks out in particular for freedom and non-violence, and not only in his songs (for example, he participated in a demonstration at the beginning of 2003 against the coming war in Iraq). Strongly influenced by the French chanson, Mey's political songs were relatively scarce among his works at the beginning, but they have increased in quantity over time, such that there is usually at least one song on each new album that concerns itself with politics. His 2004 album, Nanga Parbat, for example, includes "Alles OK in Guantanamo Bay", a song critical of the U.S. detention facility on the island of Cuba.

For years, Mey has been an avid vegetarian,^[2] and also has been active in the German chapter of the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Several of his songs deal with the theme of prevention of cruelty to animals, the most famous one being "Die Würde des Schweins ist unantastbar" (roughly, "a pig's dignity is inviolable.", echoing the first sentence of the first article of the German constitution)

Theme music[link]

The first bars Reinhard Mey's Gute Nacht, Freunde have been used since 1976 as the beginning of the theme tune for the popular Dutch radio show Met het Oog op Morgen, broadcast every night from 11pm until midnight on Radio 1. After the words "und ein letztes Glas im steh'n" the Mey song fades away and an orchestra takes over.^[4]

Awards[link]

• 1968 Prix International de la Chanson française (the first non-French singer to receive this award)
• 1983 Verdienstkreuz am Bande (Cross of Merit on ribbon)
• 2001 Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse (Cross of Merit, First class)

Selected discography[link]

German[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 1967 - Ich wollte wie Orpheus singen
• 1968 - Ankomme Freitag, den 13.
• 1970 - Aus meinem Tagebuch
• 1971 - Ich bin aus jenem Holze
• 1972 - Mein achtel Lorbeerblatt
• 1974 - Wie vor Jahr und Tag
• 1975 - Ikarus
• 1977 - Menschenjunges
• 1979 - Keine ruhige Minute
• 1980 - Jahreszeiten
• 1981 - Freundliche Gesichter
• 1983 - Die Zwölfte
• 1985 - Hergestellt in Berlin
• 1986 - Alleingang
• 1988 - Balladen
• 1990 - Farben
• 1992 - Alles geht
• 1994 - Immer weiter
• 1996 - Leuchtfeuer
• 1998 - Flaschenpost
• 2000 - Einhandsegler
• 2002 - Rüm Hart
• 2004 - Nanga Parbat
• 2007 - Bunter Hund
• 2010 - Mairegen

Live albums[link]

• 1971 - Reinhard Mey live
• 1974 - 20.00 Uhr
• 1978 - Unterwegs
• 1981 - Tournee
• 1984 - Live '84
• 1987 - Die grosse Tournee '86
• 1991 - Mit Lust und Liebe
• 1995 - Zwischen Zürich und zu Haus
• 1997 - Lebenszeichen
• 1999 - Lampenfieber
• 2002 - Solo - Die Einhandsegler Tournee
• 2003 - Klaar Kiming
• 2006 - !ich kann
• 2009 - Danke Liebe Gute Fee

Compilation albums[link]

• 1973 - Mädchen in den Schänken (Compilation of 7" 45rpm singles)
• 1973 - Alles was ich habe
• 1977 - Starportrait
• 1982 - Starportrait 2, Welch ein Geschenk ist ein Lied
• 1987 - Die großen Erfolge
• 1989 - Mein Apfelbäumchen
• 1990 - Die Story (6-CD-Release Bertelsmann Buchclub)
• 1993 - Ich liebe dich
• 1997 - Du bist ein Riese ...
• 2000 - Peter und der Wolf / Tierballaden
• 2003 - Über den Wolken - Lieder aus 4 Jahrzehnten

Singles[link]

• 1965 - Geh und fang den Wind / Drei Lilien (Debut single; German cover version of Donovans "Catch The Wind" under the pseudonym Rainer May)
• 1966 - 25 00 30 Fred Kasulzke protestazki / Frau Pohl / Vertreterbesuch / Ballade / Bauer ich bitt euch (EP)
• 1966 - Die drei Musketiere / Schuttabladeplatz der Zeit / Abgesang / Mein Kanapee (EP)
• 1968 - Diplomatenjagd / Komm, giess mein Glas noch einmal ein
• 1969 - Ich hab' nur Dich gekannt / Der Weg zurück
• 1970 - Die Ballade vom Pfeifer / Ankomme, Freitag, den 13.
• 1970 - In meinem Zimmer fällt leis' der Regen / Ein Krug aus Stein
• 1971 - Die heisse Schlacht am kalten Buffet / Neun... und vorbei
• 1971 - Der Mörder ist immer der Gärtner / Längst geschlossen sind die Läden
• 1972 - Annabelle, ach Annabelle / Bevor ich mit den Wölfen heule
• 1973 - Trilogie auf Frau Pohl / Das Geheimnis im Hefeteig oder der Schuss im Backofen
• 1973 - Aber Deine Ruhe findest Du nicht mehr / Zwei Hühner auf dem Weg nach Vorgestern
• 1974 - Mann aus Alemannia / Über den Wolken
• 1974 - Gute Nacht Freunde / Musikanten sind in der Stadt
• 1974 - Über den Wolken / Der alte Bär ist tot und sein Käfig leer
• 1975 - Es gibt Tage, da wünscht' ich, ich wär' mein Hund / Es bleibt eine Narbe zurück
• 1975 - Hab Erdöl im Garten / Ich bin Klempner von Beruf
• 1977 - Ist mir das peinlich / Mein erstes graues Haar
• 1977 - Einen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars / Menschenjunges
• 1978 - Daddy Blue / Alles ist gut
• 1979 - Keine ruhige Minute / Dieter Malinek, Ulla und ich
• 1979 - Dr. Nahtlos, Dr. Sägeberg und Dr. Hein / Was weiss ich schon von Dir?
• 1980 - Wir sind lauter arme, kleine Würstchen / Freunde, lasst uns trinken
• 1980 - Sommermorgen / Bei Ilse und Willi auf'm Land
• 1981 - Müllmänner-Blues / Das Leben ist ...
• 1983 - Was in der Zeitung steht / Ich würde gern einmal in Dresden singen
• 1983 - Hilf mir / Ich habe nie mehr Langeweile
• 1984 - Rundfunkwerbung-Blues
• 1984 - Frohe Weihnacht / Alles ist so schön verpackt
• 1985 - Lasst sie reisen / Ich grüsse ...
• 1990 - Alle Soldaten woll'n nach Haus'
• 1986 - Nein, meine Söhne geb' ich nicht
• 1992 - Das Etikett (Promo-Single)
• 1994 - 51er Kapitän
• 1996 - Lilienthals Traum
• 1998 - Die 12 Weihnachtstage (Adaptation of the British Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas") / Willst Du Dein Herz mir schenken
• 2000 - Einhandsegler
• 2000 - Ich bring' Dich durch die Nacht (Promo-Single)

With other artists[link]

• 1986 - Ein Loch in der Kanne (Live with Rainhard Fendrich)
• 1996 - Liebe, Schnaps & Tod (with Hannes Wader and Klaus Hoffmann)
• 1999 - Einfach abhau'n, einfach geh'n (Maxi-CD, with Ina Deter)
• 2003 - Mey, Wader, Wecker - Das Konzert (live with Hannes Wader and Konstantin Wecker)

DVDs[link]

• 2003 - Klaar Kiming
• 2009 - Danke liebe gute Fee

British albums[link]

• 1970 - One Vote for tomorrow

French albums[link]

Studio[link]

• 1970 - Frédérik Mey, Vol. 1
• 1972 - Frédérik Mey, Vol. 2
• 1974 - Frédérik Mey, Vol. 3
• 1976 - Frédérik Mey, Vol. 4
• 1979 - Frédérik Mey, Vol. 5
• 1982 - Frédérik Mey, Vol. 6
• 2005 - Frédérik Mey, Vol. 7 - douce France

Live[link]

• 1976 - Recital Frédérik Mey à l'Olympia
• 1979 - Bobino

Dutch albums[link]

• 1975 - Als de dag van toen
• 1976 - Er zijn dagen ...

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official homepage of Reinhard Mey
• Reinhard Mey - www.laut.de
• Source of many Reinhard Mey's recordings

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Roger Whittaker
Roger Whittaker playing live
Background information
Born	(1936-03-22) 22 March 1936 (age 76) Nairobi, Kenya, British Empire
Genres	Easy listening, pop
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter, teacher
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1962–present
Website	www.rogerwhittaker.com

Roger Whittaker (born 22 March 1936) is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability. American audiences are most familiar with his 1970 hit "New World in the Morning" and his 1975 hit "The Last Farewell," the latter of which is his only single to hit the Billboard Hot 100 (it made the Top 20) and also hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Childhood and beginning[link]

Whittaker's parents, Edward and Viola, were originally from Staffordshire, England, where they owned and operated a grocery shop. His father had a motorcycle accident and the family moved to a farm near Thika, Kenya because of the warmer climate. His grandfather sang in various clubs and his father played the violin. Roger learned to play the guitar.

Whittaker was drafted into national service and spent two years in the Kenya Regiment. In 1956 he was demobilized and decided on a career in medicine. He enrolled at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

He left the university after 18 months and joined the civil service education department to try teaching.

Recording and performing career[link]

To further his teaching career, Whittaker moved to Britain in September 1959. For the next three years, he studied zoology, biochemistry, and marine biology at the Bangor University and received a B.Sc. degree. He continued to sing in local clubs and released some of his songs on flexi-discs included with the campus newspaper, the Bangor University Rag. Shortly afterwards, he was signed to Fontana Records who released his first professional single, "The Charge of The Light Brigade", in 1962.

In the summer of 1962, he appeared at a professional gig in Portrush, Northern Ireland. He landed his first major breakthrough when he was signed to appear on an Ulster Television show called This And That. His second single was a cover version of "Steel Men", released in June 1962.

Whittaker met Natalie O'Brien in the spring of 1964 and they married on 15 August of that year. They have five children: Emily (b. 28 May 1968), Lauren (b. 4 June 1970), Jessica (b. 14 February 1973), Guy (b. 15 November 1974), and Alexander (b. 7 April 1978). They now have nine grandchildren.

In 1966, Whittaker switched from Fontana to EMI's Columbia label. His fourth single for the imprint was "Durham Town (The Leavin')", which in 1969 became Whittaker's first UK Top 20 hit. Whittaker's US label, RCA Victor, released the uptempo "New World In The Morning" in 1970, where it became a Top 20 hit in Billboard magazine's Easy Listening chart.

In the early 70's Whittaker took interest in the Nordic Countries when he recorded the single "Where the Angels Tread (Änglagård)" to the music of Evert Taube in 1972. In 1974 he partook in the Finnish Eurovision qualifications. The song "The Finnish Whistler" he performed in the qualifications later became famous in Finland as it was used as a title music for the popular Finnish YLE TV cooking program "Patakakkonen".

1975 saw EMI release "The Last Farewell", a track from his 1971 New World in The Morning album. It became his biggest hit and a signature song, selling more than 11 million copies worldwide. In 1979, Whittaker wrote the song "Call My Name" which reached the final of the UK Eurovision selection, A Song For Europe, performed by Eleanor Keenan and coming third. Whittaker recorded the song himself and the single charted in several European countries. Whittaker also established himself in country music with "I Love You Because" getting "into the lower reaches of the country chart"^[1] in late 1983. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Whittaker had success in Germany, with German language songs produced by Nick Munro. Unable to speak German, Whittaker sang the songs phonetically. He appeared on German and Danish TV several times,^[2] and was on the UK Top Of The Pops show 10 times in the early to mid 1970s.

In 1986, he published his autobiography, So Far, So Good, co-written with his wife.

In March 2006, Whittaker announced on his website that a 2007 Germany tour would be his last, and that he will limit future performances to "occasional concerts". Now more fluent in German, he was seen singing and was interviewed in German on Danish TV in November 2008.

In recent years he has been living in Eyrecourt, County Galway, Ireland, close to the River Shannon.

Tours[link]

In 1976, Whittaker undertook his first tour of the United States.

In 2003 he again toured Germany. After recovering from heart problems at the end of 2004, he started touring in Germany in 2005, and then in UK from May to July.

Awards[link]

In his career to date, Whittaker has earned over 250 silver, gold and platinum albums.

He was part of a successful British team that won the annual Knokke music festival in Belgium, and won the Press Prize as the personality of the festival.

Ivor Novello awards (twice) for songwriting in 1971-72 and for "The Last Farewell" in 1975-76 (?) (unconfirmed - e-mail query pending)

He was awarded a 'Gold Badge Award', from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) in 1988.^[3]

He earned a 'Golden Tuning Fork' (Goldene Stimmgabel in Germany) in 1986, based on record sales and TV viewer votes.

Discography[link]

Hit singles[link]

European albums[link]

a selection

• 1971 New World in the Morning
• 1979 Mein deutsches Album (in German)
• 1981 Zum Weinen ist immer noch Zeit
• 1982 Typisch Roger Whittaker
• 1983 Voyager
• 1984 Ein Glück, daß es Dich gibt
• 1987 Heut bin ich arm - Heut bin ich reich
• 1991 Frohe Weinacht - Die schonsten Weihnachtslieder
• 1991 Mein Herz schlägt nur für Dich
• 1992 Stimme des Herzens
• 1993 Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
• 1994 Leben mit Dir
• 1994 Sehnsucht nach Liebe
• 1994 Geschenk des Himmels
• 1995 Ein schöner Tag mit Dir
• 1996 Alles Roger!
• 1996 Einfach leben
• 1997 Zurück zur Liebe
• 1999 Alles Roger 2
• 1999 Awakening
• 2000 Wunderbar geborgen
• 2002 Mehr denn je
• 2003 Alles Roger 3
• 2003 Der weihnachtliche Liedermarkt
• 2004 Live in Berlin
• 2004 Mein schönster Traum
• 2005 Moments in My Life
• 2007 The Danish collection

US albums[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• The Official German Fan Page
• Roger Whittaker at the Internet Movie Database

Luna Luna
Origin	Recklinghausen, Germany
Genres	Folk rock
Years active	1989–1997
Members
Frank Niggemann Stefan Kahé Markus Schroer Lambert Stallmeyer Wolfgang Bahne Bettina Hagemann

Luna Luna was a German rock band from Recklinghausen, Germany formed in 1989.The founding members were Frank Niggemann (vocals), Stefan Kahé (guitar), Markus Schroer (keyboards), Lambert Stallmeyer (bass), Wolfgang Bahne (drums) and Bettina Hagemann (violin). They continued to perform until 1997, when the band was formally dissolved.^[1]

The group released several singles and three albums: Es war einmal (“Once upon a time”) in 1993, Rosa (“Pink”) in 1994 and Supernova in 1997. Their most successful single “Küss mich” (“Kiss me”) entered the German single charts in 1993.^[2] Nonetheless is the song “Wenn ich tot bin (sollst du tanzen)” [“When I'm dead (you should dance”)] from the Supernova album considered to be the band’s most famous one.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 1993: Es war einmal
• 1994: Rosa
• 1997: Supernova

Singles[link]

• 1993: Küss Mich
• 1993: Schwarze Rose
• 1993: 60 Sekunden
• 1994: Rosa
• 1994: Sturmalarm
• 1994: Gibt es noch Liebe?
• 1995: Sehnsucht

References[link]

External links[link]

• Former official website at web.archive.org (German)
• Luna Luna at lastfm.com
• Luna Luna at musicbrainz.org