German Singles: The Guardian: Justin Quirk admires the Can-do spirit
Normally I'd say that bad-mouthing all modern music as bland, prefabricated rubbish is shorthand for "past-it, grumpy contrarian". However, anyone watching the Can DVD released this month will be hard pushed not to come to the conclusion that our tastes have become markedly blander in the last 30 years. A brutally modernist collection of Stockhausen devotees and free jazz obsessives, Can's music contained elements of what became PiL's...
German Singles: NEW BLOOD WIMBLEDON MEN'S FINAL PITS BECKER VS. CURREN
If you bet on Clay against Liston in 1964, or on the Mets in 1969, or on the Jets against the Colts in Super Bowl III, then no doubt you were expecting a Wimbledon final between eighthseeded Kevin Curren and an unseeded 17-year- old named Boris Becker.This longshot final will produce a first-time winner of the most famous tournament in tennis -- either Curren, 27, a South African who recently became an American citizen and also rediscovered his fearsome serve, or Becker, the ...
German Singles: Dum dums have it
AFTER the huge worldwide success of those international airhead wonders, the Vengaboys, a new crew could soon be challenging them for the tra-la-la-la-la titles. A Touch of Class is the latest compilation of four international dancers from Australia, Italy, England and New Zealand, and they are already challenging Venga-power in Europe with their album Planet Pop.Their formulaic electronica pop might sound like a Chicane/Steps hybrid, but regardless of how plastic these former Cats...
German Singles: All sweetness and light
BOY BALLADEER In Germany, this 21-year-old is more popular than the Backstreet Boys. Now he's coming to Singapore as the opening act for Westlife A GERMAN heart-throb may soon be sending Singapore girls' temperatures soaring. Christian Wunderlich, 21, will open for Irish boyband Westlife on its Asian tour, which hits Singapore on May 27. The blond-haired, blue-eyed wonder is famous in his country for his saccharine ballads. And his...