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

He is THE constant in the German metal scene: on 6 April 2022, icon Udo Dirkschneider will be no less than 70 years old. Born in post-war Wuppertal, when heavy metal was still a long way from being invented, he has been one of the key characters who have had such a decisive influence on this music genre for many years. He has been an integral part of it for around five decades.

‘My Way’ is his most personal and extraordinary album to date: it contains 17 cover versions of the songs that have influenced the musician and singer the most. They include all kinds of classics from music history - including some that you might not have expected to hear from Udo. Behind all the tracks there is not only a very personal story, but also a sometimes surprising arrangement, which, despite their very individual realisation, live and breathe Udo's signature at all times. The cover album also makes one thing clear: how many in the music industry have come and gone over the years. Udo Dirkschneider is still here. While his unchangeable nature was briefly the thing that almost became his downfall in the 80s in the midst of the standardised music industry, it has long since become his greatest strength. All this makes Udo Dirkschneider one of the greatest and most impressive rock and metal icons of the last decades.

About his choice to cover the track ‘Nutbush City Limits’, Udo reveals: ‘What hardly anyone knows so far: I used to be a big fan of Ike and Tina Turner, especially Tina's voice. When we met up with ACCEPT for rehearsals in the early days, we always covered this song. It was part of our ACCEPT rehearsal repertoire for years. Unfortunately, there is no recording of it.’

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 !

This album contains no booklet.