My Way Udo Dirkschneider

• 1 Faith Healer 04:58
• 2 Fire 03:11
• 3 Sympathy 04:32
• 4 They Call It Nutbush (Udo Dirkschneider Version) 02:13
• 5 Man on the Silver Mountain 04:18
• 6 Hell Raiser 03:18
• 7 No Class 02:39
• 8 Rock and Roll 03:55
• 9 The Stroke (Udo Dirkschneider Version) 03:53
• 10 Paint It Black (Edit Version) 04:29
• 11 He's a Woman, She's a Man 03:18
• 12 T.N.T. 03:45
• 13 Jealousy 05:39
• 14 Hell Bent for Leather 02:42
• 15 We Will Rock You (Udo Dirkschneider Version) 03:12
• 16 Kein Zurück (Udo Dirkschneider Version) 04:07
• 17 My Way 04:35
• Total Runtime 01:04:44

Info for My Way

Er ist DIE Konstante der deutschen Metalszene: Am 6. April 2022 wird Ikone Udo Dirkschneider sage und schreibe 70 Jahre alt. Geboren im Wuppertal der Nachkriegszeit, als Heavy Metal noch lange nicht erfunden war, ist er seit vielen Jahren einer der entscheidenden Charaktere, die dieses Musikgenre so entscheidend mitgeprägt haben. Seit rund fünf Jahrzehnten ist er daraus nicht mehr wegzudenken.

"My Way" ist sein bislang persönlichstes und außergewöhnlichstes Album: es beinhaltet 17 Coverversionen genau der Songs, die den Musiker und Sänger mit am Meisten beeinflusst haben. Darunter befinden sich alle möglichen Klassiker der Musikgeschichte - auch solche, mit denen man bei Udo möglicherweise nicht gerechnet hätte. Hinter all den Tracks befindet sich nicht nur eine ganz persönliche Geschichte, sondern auch ein mitunter überraschendes Arrangement, die trotz ihrer sehr individuellen Umsetzung jedoch zu jedem Zeitpunkt Udos Handschrift leben und atmen. Das Coveralbum macht dabei auch eines deutlich: wie viele in der Musikbranche über die Jahre gekommen und gegangen sind. Udo Dirkschneider ist noch immer hier. War seine unveränderbare Art in den 80ern kurzzeitig das, was ihm inmitten der normkonstruierten Musikbranche fast zum Verhängnis geworden wäre, ist sie längst seine ganz große Stärke. All das macht Udo Dirkschneider zu einer der größten und imposantesten Rock- und Metal-Ikonen der letzten Jahrzehnte.

Über seine Wahl, den Track 'Nutbush City Limits' zu covern, verrät Udo: "Was bislang wohl kaum jemand weiß: Ich war mal großer Fan von Ike und Tina Turner, speziell von Tinas Stimme. Wenn wir uns in den Anfangstagen mit ACCEPT zum Proben trafen, hatten wir immer diesen Song gecovert. Er gehörte Jahre lang zu unserem ACCEPT-Probe-Repertoire. Aufnahme gibt es davon aber leider keine."

Udo Dirkschneider

Udo Dirkschneider
My first glance at the world was on April the 6.th of 1952, exactly at 1.pm, in the beautiful town called Wuppertal. As the years were passing by, at the age of 12, I received as a gift from my parents the Beatles record "I'm Down", From then on I was obsessed with music. Then the Rolling Stones came into my life, and from that momment on the Beatles were only wimps.

I got my first portable Recordplayer for Christmas. All my teachers hated me, because I took it always with me to school, my schoolmate was the world famous producer Michael Wagener and together with him I started my music carrier.

At this time I was not interested in using my voice I was more into keyboards, and so my parents made me a gift at the age of 14. Of course a keyboard! At the same time Michael got his first electric guitar and the radio of his parents becames the amplifier. Of course they didn't liked it! From this time on the route was marked. Michael was working hard on the guitar and I was trying to play the keyboards propper. More and more I got into singing, and the result was, that I liked it more then playing.

I created the first Band BAND X, when I was sixteen. We played 3 years in Clubs and in the year 1971 Michael and I changed the name of this Band. From this time on we were ACCEPT. At the same time Michael faced himself with the fact that he was not a good guitarplayer, and he changed to studio work. It needed 4 years to find the right Line up which gets the break through under the name ACCEPT.

On a competition in Düsseldorf we reached the third place, and we got our first record deal. 1978 was the year of our first Album called "Accept", and at this time our music was a revolution. In the end of 1979 the second album was out under the title "I`m A Rebel", it was a work of research for a style. In 1980 with the release of "Breaker" the music scene was shocked by the sound of this album, surprised with this kind of agressive music from Germany, and this was also a breakthrough for the band all over Europe, and also it was the first time that we did a big headline tour in Germany and the european tour with JUDAS PRIEST, and so we decided this would be our profession.

With the next album "Restless And Wild" for the first time America was interested in us, but in our opinion it was to early. During this time together with Michael Wagner I made a production company, called "DOUBLE TROUBLE" and produced bands like RAVEN, FAITHFULL BREATH, STREET FIGHTER etc.

At this time there were rumors that I would quit ACCEPT, but it was not true. Then in 1983 with the release of "Balls To The Wall" we had world wide success and than the time for America was right.

............ the rest of my carrier, fans know it !

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