BAP 1983

Wolfgang Niedecken of Cologne’s rock band BAP — at the time the biggest band in West Germany — on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 29 September 1983.

BAP 1983

Wolfgang Niedecken, singer of Cologne’s rock band BAP, on the cover of Bravo of 10 February 1983. BAP were West-Germany’s biggest rock act, despite singing in their city’s Kölsch dialect.

BAP 1984

Wolfgang Niedecken, singer of rock band BAP which sang only in the Cologne dialect of Kölsch, on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 12 July 1984.

 

BAP 1983

German rock band BAP, at the time the Bruce Springsteens of German rock (singing in the Cologne dialect of Kölsch) on the back-page poster in Bravo of 27 January 1983.

 

BAP 1984

Wolfgang Niedecken, singer of Cologne-dialect rock band BAP on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 12 July 1984.

 

BAP 1983

German rock band BAP on a centrespread poster in Bravo of 9 June 1983. Please ladies, control yourselves!

Despite singing in the dialect Kölsch, which is unique to the city of Cologne, BAP were one if the biggest bands in Germany.

Neue Deutsche Welle 1982

In the issue of 10 June 1982, Bravo invited readers to vote for their favourite Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) act. My judgment:

The good: Fehlfarben, Spliff,  Ideal, Extrabreit, Falco, Rheingold, DAF

The OK: Spider Murphy Gang, Trio, UKW, Jawoll, Andreas Dorau

The bad: Hubert Kah (really, really bad), Markus

The Who the hell are you?: Vera Kaa, Nichts, Neonbabies, Insisters

The What are you doing here?: BAP, Bots (rock and political folk bands respectively, with no synth in sight), Kraftwerk, who virtually invented the genre but weren’t of it

Bravo 20 Oct 1982 (+BAP)

Actor Lewis Collins on the cover of Bravo of 20 October 1982. This week 36 years ago, Germany’s youth read about:

• Singer Nena in private
• Fleetwood Mac: divided in private, united on stage
• Now in the cinemas: Australian movie Mad Max
• Marilyn Monroe tells medium: “I was murdered”. Moidered, I tells ya!
• Cologne’s rock band BAP live (see below)
• Shogun‘s Richard Chamberlain: This is how he looks beardless
• Bravo readers on Pink Floyd’s The Wall Movie (it’s scary, apparently)
• German New Wave group Spliff’s plans for a new album
• Bryan Ferry is becoming a father
• Something about crappy Hubert Kah
• Opinions on how most 16-year-old girls aren’t virgins
• Italian singer Adriano Celentano now a comic actor

Here the article on BAP, the rock band led by the Springsteenesque Wolfgang Niedecken, which enjoys legend status in Germany even though they sing only in the dialect of their city, known as Kölsch.

 

 

BAP 1982

Wolfgang Niedecken, frontman of German rock group BAP, on on a centre-spread poster in Bravo of 2 December 1982. BAP sang — and still singing — in the Kölsch dialect that is unique to the city of Cologne, yet attracted nationwide fame.