Greetings to Angie, Heidi and the pants

News has been touring the news portals for weeks: Heino stops!

After Helene Fischer, Kraftwerk and Rammstein, probably the most Teutonic of all pop artists, after the summer of the century he says goodbye at the age of 80 with a new, very last album: "... and goodbye".

After the two "Best regards" albums, this is already the third album in a row with tongue-in-cheek cover versions from the German rock and pop world, among others by Xavier Naidoo, Trio or Hubert Kah. Heino even sings duet with Wolfgang Petry.

Heino, bourgeois Heinz-Georg Kramm, joins effortlessly between James Last's "Non Stop Dancing", the "Bravo-Hits" and Dick Brave & The Backbeats: party hits that anyone can whistle backwards - in Heino versions , Okay: a few original compositions are also included.

Amazingly, the record company, despite Christmas business and continuing vinyl boom of a LP edition or a complex collector box with party-suited Heino gimmicks apart. After all, there is a double CD issue with bonus songs and classics from the throat of the legendary hazelnut crooners, for example the "song for my audience" and the farewell hymn "thank you, goodbye".

"Toten wie die" by Toten Hosen is also on the regular album, which could be read like a late replica. After all, it was after all a certain Norbert Hähnel aka "The True Heino" in the trouser pre-program, who had to answer in the mid-eighties for his Heino parody before the Düsseldorf district court.

The verdict at that time was: 10,000 marks penalty, because Hähnel did not want to move away from the position to be the only true Heino. The Toten Hosen then played with the support of the Golden Lemons and Rocko Schamoni the fine. However, Hahnel refused to pay the amount to Heino, preferring to spend 20 days in detention.

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Since then, it was no longer all that good to talk about the white-blonde sunglasses man with the epic rutting-time baritone, especially in punk rock circles. Now Heino shows more than 30 years later with his pants cover once again all who is the true Heino here.

Speaking of the punks, Jello Biafra of US legend Dead Kennedys still likes to boast the world's largest Heino record collection. But he has a good laugh. Alone through the transatlantic safety distance, he can comfortably place Heino at home in the "Incredibly Strange Music" tray.

For critical Popfans in this country Heino was over the decades, however, always a serious, worrying phenomenon that revealed much about the state of the West German pop mainstream, as well as Ralph Siegel, Dieter Bohlen or Captain Jack: Collective repression and dreariness!

Above all, it was found that Heino sang songs like "The God Who Made Iron Grow", which could already be found in the SS song book. Many blamed Heino for choosing his songs when he lulled the Wirtschaftswunder audience in front of the TV set or the stages of this republic with old home songs.

Heino himself can not recognize a swastika in the songs to this day: "The songs can not help it if they have been instrumentalized," he says, as Heino in 2013 at the Alpenflair Festival together with the Tyrolean Rechtsrock-Band Frei.Wild appeared and was approached, he denied ever having heard anything about this band.

In contrast, Hamburg musician Jan Delay was allowed to pay € 20,000 in damages for his Heino insult. He had called the home singer in an interview a "Nazi". The Prehistory: Heino covered the song "Liebeslied" by Delay's Hip-Hop-Crew Beginner on the album "Yours sincerely". This was unbearable for the left-alternative Delay.

In the best Trump manner, Heino and his lawyers have been able to maintain their fake news allegations and pounded legal action on the pop surface. How fitting that there is already a Heino cover version of the song "capitulation" by the group Tocotronic: This man is just not get along.

On "... and bye," Heino actually dedicates a song titled "Pictures in the head (Angie)" to the German Chancellor: "Angie, Angie, my angel with the blond braid, we were like bad luck and sulfur, destined for each other Called you tenderly Angie, I was almost blind with love, "it says. Heino devotes the cover version of the powerhouse classic "The Model" to the mother of all next top models: Heidi Klum. A clever marketing concept, no matter if Angela Merkel is wearing a braid or not.

Musically, this album needs no human. Unless you have been waiting eagerly for a couple of years for a duet by Heino and Wolle Petry: "I breathe, I feel". Rammstein-influenced hit skirt for the generation Atemlos. Or a version by Hildegard Knefs "For me it's supposed to rain red roses", sung by Heino's wife Hanelore. And those who still have not found the "La Paloma" version for eternity, may finally find it on Heino's Unplugged version and can finally auction his old Freddy Quinn singles on Ebay.

After all: Young successful pop artists who sing in German - such as AnnenMay Kantentereit or Yung Hurn - can be happy today that Heino finally stops. You will probably be spared a Heino cover version of their greatest hits.

And goodbye? An occasional comeback on the stages of the republic Heino thinks again possible.

Heino: "... and Bye (The Last Album)" (Sony Music) was released on November 23rd.