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Berlin (dpa) - Pop and literature - for rock musician Thees Uhlmann and writer Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, the two have long belonged together.
Now also in the joint song “Club 27” by the two 46-year-olds, which deals with a sad phenomenon: the early drug death of music icons.
The song, written by Stuckrad-Barre, will be released digitally on Easter Monday as a new Uhlmann single.
"A music video with the two will be released soon," announced the label.
Prominent members of the so-called Club 27 such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison or Kurt Cobain, who all died at the age of only 27, are not named in the song.
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Uhlmann / Stuckrad-Barre do not approach the somewhat macabre topic of catchy pop rock with seriousness: "No matter what you say / about God / in Club 27 / there is always something going on ...".
He himself - according to the singer in the song - is long too old for this club and is therefore turned away by the Grim Reaper bouncer.
The two artists from northern Germany have lived in Berlin for a long time.
They know each other through their common interest in music, for example from Oasis, Udo Lindenberg or Die Toten Hosen, as they told a few years ago in a «Musikexpress» interview.
There was a "deep bond after a few seconds," said Stuckrad-Barre at the time.
Former Tomte frontman Uhlmann reached positions 2 to 4 in the German pop charts with his three solo albums - most recently in 2019 "Junkies and Scientologists".
His debut novel “Sophia, der Tod und Ich” (2015) was also successful.
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The writer, journalist and presenter Stuckrad-Barre (“Solo album”, “Panikherz”) was initially classified as part of the so-called pop literature, and most recently he published the book “All have become so serious” with the successful Swiss author Martin Suter.
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