It's nice that the title “Fred's music pin” didn't catch on, because the only good thing about it was the missing apostrophe.
Back then, when people could still use genitives without apostrophes, Fred was obviously still pretty hip.
And “Musikpinte” as a funny title for a show in which music was exclusively played and sung live, by people like Sting, Sammy Davis Jr., Edda Moser, Nina Hagen, Caterina Valente, Iannis Xenakis, wildly mixed.
Thank God, the international stars had no idea what the show was almost called.
It was called “Bio's Bahnhof” since 1978. Years later, when Alfred Biolek signed one of the many cookbooks he was producing with Eckart Witzigmann in a Frankfurt bookstore, people just addressed him like this: “Bio”.
“Bio” has made television history
At that time, however, organically grown food was still called “eco”, like organic itself in his cooking and talk show “Alfredissimo!”.
With this, too, the lawyer, hobby cook and connoisseur of people wrote television history, long before all the cooking television formats.
Much could be learned while he was tinkering with a guest in the kitchen and drinking white wine, which seemed to be sort of the main thing.
That the talent for cooking is very unevenly distributed in the celebrity industry as in the rest of humanity, for example that bad recipes can also be entertaining, such as Karl Dall's “Saunudeln” - with Gouda cheese and sweet and sour chilli sauce.
Now “Bio” has died.
His credo "Pepper only fresh from the mill" is immortalized in so many variations that he will probably hear about it on his cloud in the connoisseur heaven.