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The Final Foreword

The First-Step & Last-Waltz Album [Liner Notes]

A journey in time from the "beat culture" of the sixties with the first Improved single "It Is You" to the farewell song from the third milennium. In between film music for Michael Verhoeven's "Engelchen macht weiter", for the TV series "Krempoli" and for an episode of the series "The Kommissar". The previously unreleased ballad "The Policeman" is also recommended to positively inclined ears.

        Tracks
Samples
Lyrics
1) 
It Is You
2) 
We Are Alone
3) 
Marvin Is Dead
4) 
Sing Your Song
5) 
Love Is A Natural Thing
6) 
Hoppe Reiter
7) 
Don´t Know Baby If You Are Safe
8) 
Leave This Lesbian World
9) 
Old Captain Cook
10) 
Don´t You Feel Any Pain
11) 
I´m Exhausted
12) 
Offering A Highly Sophisticated Way To Ride
13) 
Oedipus
14) 
Where Will The Salmon Spawn
15) 
Krempoli Tune
16) 
Down The Dusty Road
17) 
Mexican Hat
18) 
Are You Kidding
19) Return To Fender  
20) Le Fleuve Tranquille  
21) The Policeman
22) The Very Last Waltz

Sing Your Song

In his tomb I saw the Well-known Soldier
Sweating tiny drops of blood
Yes I guess he didn´t like this last home
That was burning in the sun
So he just walked out there to rest
While asking me for a drink
Things go better with big-big smashing Coke

I´ll sing your song
Stopping fighting for a while
I´ll sing your song
But I can´t resist a smile

Yesterday I freed a prosecuter
Who was growing weed at home
Mrs. Joan O´Leary killed herself mmh
´Cause she couldn´t stand a vice
Deep and strong leaving her no choice
She´d stolen hard to believe
“Cream-Line” Toffee at Mr. Gardner´s shop

Music written by Axel Linstädt (except Tracks 1 and 2 by
Axel Linstädt and Johnny Fickert)
Lyrics by Bernd Linstädt

Johnny Fickert: voc., altosax, flute, Hammond organ, rhythm-guitar, percussion

Axel Linstädt: guitars, keyboards, ocarina, soprano and alto recorders, voc.

Uli Ruppert: bass, voc.

Rolf Gröschner: drums

Thanks to the brass and the strings

Recorded in Munich at Polydor Studios, 1966 (tracks 1 and 2), Trixi Studios, 1969 (tracks 3 and 4),
Union Studios, 1969 (tracks 5-12), 1979 (tracks 13 and 14),
1971 (track 21)
Bavaria Studios 1973 (tracks 15-20)
Track 22: december 2002, recorded by
Jörg Scheuermann, somewhere over the rainbow

Lincensed by Improved Sound Limited
Digital remastering: Jörg Scheuermann
Cover picture: Pamela Prechtl

 

 

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