Alphaville



 

 

Alphaville (band)

 

Alphaville is a German synthpop/new wave band which gained popularity in the 1980s.

 

The founding members were lead

Singer Marian Gold(real name: Hartwig Schierbaum, born 26 May 1954 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia),

Bernhard Lloyd (real name: Bernhard Gössling, born 2 June 1960 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia), and

Frank Mertens (real name: Frank Sorgatz, born 26 October 1961 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia). The band was at first named “Forever Young” before being changed to “Alphaville”. They achieved chart success with the singles “Big in Japan“, “Jet Set“, “Dance With Me” and “Forever Young“.

Alphaville formed in early 1982, when Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd met at the music project Nelson Community. Many months later, Frank Mertens joined the project. Together the three wrote Forever Young and recorded their first demo of the same name. In 1984, the newly renamed Alphaville released their debut single, “Big in Japan”, which Gold wrote in 1979 after hearing the music of Holly Johnson‘s band Big in Japan.[4]

 

 

Alphaville_