City - Nur Die Nachte Gehoren Uns [1979 Hard Rock n Roll GDR Germany ]

Album: Der Tatowierte
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Here's three minutes of hard rock n roll to wake you from the dreamy environs of the previous track. City was founded in 1972 by Fritz Puppel (guitar) and Klaus Selmke (drums) in East Berlin.The breakthrough for City came in 1975 with the performance of the song "Am Fenster" at the radio station in the GDR. The song then played all over the radio and although the song hadn't been released on disc yet, clubs around the country were already using it on tape. Only in 1977 did Amiga release a single of "Am Fenster". This gave the song a further boost and the result was top places in the radio charts. In 1977, the song took second place in the GDR radio station's annual rankings and was only pushed to second place by the Puhdys song "Erinnerung". That's remarkable if only because the song wasn't initially intended for release on vinyl, let alone production in the studio. One year later, the group released the album "Am Fenster", which went well with their hit and was also very successful. The song "Am Fenster" somehow reached Greece, where it also became a hit. The album itself was released there and later went gold in the country.

The band followed up with in 1979 with the LP "Der Tatowierte". Again, this album was released in Greece. In an overall comparison, this album does not count among the band's strongest works - possibly due to its fairly rapid development. As a result, came some personnel changes. With Rüdiger Barton (keyboard) and Gisbert "Pitti" Piatkowski (guitar), two new members came from the group Magdeburg. In this extended formation with six musicians - two of them guitarists - the LP "Dreamer" and the song "Efkaristo", which was jointly written by Joro Gogow and Gisbert Piatkowski, was released in 1980.

The band remained successful through the '80s and into the new millennium. At the end of 2019 founding member and drummer Klaus Selmke became seriously ill and had to undergo treatment. At the beginning of April 2020, the musician reported back to the fans with a video. In May 2020, Selmke died in a Berlin hospital. Without him, planning began for the band's 50th birthday in 2022. A tour with the Berlin Philharmonic was planned. A band tour was also planned as the last tour, and they disbanded after the final concert in December 2022. In the spring of the same year, City's last studio album, "The Last Round", was released. A lot more can be read at https://www.deutsche-mugge.de/portraits/1215-city.html