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词条 Marian Gold
释义

  1. Biography

     Early life  Alphaville  Solo 

  2. Personal life

  3. References

  4. External links

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| name = Marian Gold
| image = Marian Gold.jpg
| caption = Marian Gold in 2006
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Hartwig Schierbaum
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|05|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Herford, West Germany
| death_date =
| death_place =
| genre = {{hlist|Synth-pop|new wave}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter}}
| instrument = Vocals
| years_active = 1982–present
| label =
| associated_acts = Alphaville
| website =
}}Marian Gold (born Hartwig Schierbaum on 26 May 1954) is a German singer-songwriter who gained fame as the lead singer of the German synth-pop recording act Alphaville, but also had recorded as a solo artist.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

Born in Herford, West Germany, Gold became part of the Berlin art collective the Nelson Community, where he formed the band Chinchilla Green in the late 1970s, which also included future Alphaville colleague Bernhard Lloyd.[3]

Alphaville

In 1982, he joined Lloyd and Frank Mertens in the band Forever Young, which soon became Alphaville.[3] He sang lead vocals on Alphaville's 1980s pop singles, including "Forever Young", "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody", "Dance with Me" and "Jerusalem. He is known for his soaring tenor multi-octave vocal range, His work is characterized by his English language lyrics, and this contributed to the Alphaville's considerable commercial success in the UK and US during the 1980s.

Since the early 1990s, Gold has taken Alphaville from a studio-based project to a successful live act and has established the band's website, Moonbase.[4]

He has remained the only ever-present member of the band, whose latest album Strange Attractor was released in 2017.[5]

On May 25 and May 26, 2018 Marian Gold and Alphaville held a two day concert at the Whisky a Go Go club in Hollywood.[6][7] The two concerts were also live streamed.[7]

Solo

Gold's first solo album, So Long Celeste, was released in 1992.[8] Included on the album were cover versions of "The Shape of Things to Come" (originally by The Headboys) and "One Step Behind You" (by Furniture).{{cn|date=November 2017}}

A second solo album, United, followed in 1996.{{cn|date=November 2017}}

Personal life

In the late 1980s, Gold lived in Münster with his then wife Amy Magill.[9]

Gold has seven children by four different women.[10]

References

1. ^High Fidelity, Volume 35, Issues 1-6, Page 167
2. ^{{cite web|author=Robbins, Ira|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=alphaville|title=Alphaville|work=Trouser Press}}
3. ^{{cite web|author=Deming, Mark|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/alphaville-mn0000790509|title=Alphaville Biography|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=13 February 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.alphaville.info/|website=Alphaville.info|title=Alphaville}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/strange-attractor-mw0003037676|title=Strange Attractor|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=23 March 2018}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.whiskyagogo.com/site/event/alphaville/|title=Alphaville|date=May 2018|publisher=Whisky a Go Go}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.eventelevator.de/&prev=search|date=June 28, 2018|title=Alphaville and Richard Kay put on Chauvet in Whiskey A Go Go Los Angeles|website=Eventelevator.de}}
8. ^St. Renburg, Holger (2001) Forever Young, {{ISBN|978-3831116164}}, p. 92
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/stage/5312/article1.html |title=A Special Interview with Marian Gold |accessdate=14 October 2013 |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20131017060832/http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/stage/5312/article1.html |archivedate=17 October 2013 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bunte.de/stars/star-news/musik/alphaville-saenger-marian-gold-sieben-kinder-von-vier-frauen.html|title=„Alphaville"-Sänger Marian Gold: Sieben Kinder von vier Frauen!|language=German|author=Vollmer, Simone|date=23 August 2017}}

External links

{{Commons category|Marian Gold}}
  • Moonbase - Official Alphaville Web Site
  • {{IMDb name|id=1009715|name=Marian Gold}}
  • {{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3530}}
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