and in our series 100 german must reads we feature a dark comedy about state surveillance seen through the lens of the east german secret police the stasi i'm. bored. well fans of hard rock and heavy metal know him well michael schenker widely considered one of the best guitar soloists around a veteran member of u.f.o. he also played for scorpions way back in the seventy's and has had an illustrious if till 2 s career well now he's back with a new album according to critics better than ever so we'll speak to him right after that's. his trademark is the flying v. guitar michael schenker.

shaping with the lights on is a track off the new album of revelation by the group my coaching fast. shank who was born in soest it near hanover in 1955 he grew up playing the guitar with his older brother rudolph. right initially together in school but michael moved on becoming the charge for a british rock band he left out of my coaching his career spans 5 to canes band has made him one of the most famous german guitarists in the world. and he's with me in the studio michael sankoh well. it's a valid so great to have you hear about your new album revelation congratulations looks like you guys are having a blast there now this is really classic hard rock with a bunch of guys that you've worked with for years robin mccauley graham bonnet

what's the message here is this is this a celebration yeah it's michael shank a fast and you know i realize that i have performed the most popular music of like this thank god but not with the original ha we have gone full circle and. cycle and you know i thought it would be great if i could do this you know mavin a group of clowns and film maybe 80 singers and the chords up there waiting the musicians the same thing and ready to go is something that was meant to be everybody's having so much fun i want to i want to stop a 2nd so that we can listen to the guitar solo from rocksteady of all the music out of the military. police or style so you. could make your spouse in the hall because you don't listen

to music since i was 17 i discovered and i knew that we are all unique and if we are all unique i don't need to do what everybody else is already doing so i do i open up myself nobody knows what's in there if i open i'll do this on a daily basis yearly basis the by product is a guitar style. legend has it that you played your 1st gig with scorpions in a nightclub when you were 11 years old is that even true that was actually my 1st concert which is kind of for the remarkable because i forgot about that and i got reminded later it was a twist and 10 and it's a ok so then you left scorpions at 17 to go play with u.f.o. and you didn't even speak english at the time had quite a turbulent career with them really back and forth and yet people still speak of the schenker years with us and i think i think it was what do you remember from that time how do you look back on that period yeah it was a blessing that i didn't speak english let the duke music do the talking so we were

focusing on music number one which was very important. you know developed in lights speed of light for form phenomenon to force to know heavy petting lights all that obsession. anderson and i had by everybody i'm going to do my own thing now. and there's over the years obviously been a lot of a lot of friction spoken about in the media between you and your brother rudolf of the scorpions how do you feel now about your time as a scorpion well listen i have in the 6 and a half years apart you know i'm 16 obvious younger than rudolph and we really only lived together. things together when i was with the spoken someone from for. the rest of the movie didn't really you know hang out together anything because i was little and i just played which i played with them quite successfully. here with the lawn some crow that was when i was 1560 and then i joined your fall and then

you know i was invited to do i was asked to help the scorpions with a laugh dr. and you know and i think of one more but he didn't tell me that but you know then they tried to persuade me to stay in in the band and i went out to him with but i think we're good you know he'd be back actually crying on the phone michael please stay in the band again because i felt so bad for him you know and he talked about bringing the original guys back for your for this album and you actually want to ward back in 2010 for rock n roll excess and for living on the edge that was the marshall 11 what about now or is it would you say you're mellowing out is it possible for michael schenker now to just mellow out a little bit. more out of that then that is really true about this because if you have a talent and on the top people want to come up with great stories and i think

that there are a lot of great stories. a lot of stories that don't they are not true you know people under sorious that you've even had a guitar named after you the dean shanker. schenker v. which i wish you brought. to my question. it's all actually more than one k. . you're going on tour in the u.k. next year to celebrate this album as well you'll be in japan in 15 years of michael schenker music what's what's your feeling going into that. in japan actually we're doing for 3 years m.s.g. special and we do actually quite interesting show with simon phillips and on drums be said we're playing 2 nights tokyo $5000.00. and then to a 2nd the fans are looking forward to it and we'll be watching from here thanks

very much for joining us. well if you've ever had the good fortune to live in paris which i did for many years you'll possibly relate to the feeling of comfort that arises when you return and 1st see the eiffel tower again for me it's a feeling of warm familiarity but jasper white wondered what it was like for people who actually enjoy the view of the eiffel tower every day. really paris you feel when you have in front of you. to see it every night every morning it was important for me when we chose this up but. i had to see it. from london he wanted to know how the iconic landmark is viewed by the city's

residents and visitors people lucky enough to live with a view of including bob who lives in the 16th with her husband just poor whites research paper she turns into a book project called to i felt a connection. pictures showing the tower from the homes of promethean residents. is so magnetic and it just this is that they have to use this somehow i have to kind of use this tower to tell a story about art and that's how we started. since 2014 jasper has visited 40 homes from a not 3 apartment on the sand to student digs on the city outskirts what they all share is a view of the i consult. very interesting to find out how people bonded a little girl she screwed up with this view and the parents they were at night they

leave the curtains open there isn't any night life you know and she has this amazing relationship with the tower and then when they tell her stories or the stories stay in they kind of a lot of them involve the tower so they play a play with that she has this really emotional bond that. just the white plans to finish and publish it to i fell book project. the reason rooms with. yes a sight that definitely warms my heart well our weekly book tips is a novel that's been called the perfect book for paranoid times but i've gotten him was a german author and poet back in communist east germany and the 2nd novel i approach the internal struggles struggles of a writer who is doubling as a spy for the dreaded east german secret police and that's of course the study to

look at that somewhere there might be a record of you watching this video ok but what about those other sites you've been visiting. those sites today with the internet it's easy to get paranoid but surveillance is nothing new. in. the novel i was going his base is about mass as spinoffs well before the web it's about a country that these its own citizens as a potential threat and spies on them all it's not science fiction it's about east germany and its secret police force the sht ozzie and this was their headquarters. the narrator of the book is an east german poet and wished as he sends to berlin to spy on other authors he spends his days creeping around tunnels and cellars at night he attends the secret meetings of east berlin underground literary scene but

he soon realizes there aren't just interested in what he reports back about the others they're spying on him to. the goal of the service was to make everyone everyone without exception and to collaborators of this service and saying though this notion might sound so that all could be watched by all that was a security worthy of its name. the system voice gunnhild bush described as surreal and he should know the stasi spied on him for decades even though he fit the regime's ideal a working class author writing about workers' experiences but he wasn't cozy with the regime and that made him a suspect who left east germany before the wall fell but in the west he was an outsider to. iowa is his novel about writing about the east german surveillance state about a regime destroyed in part by its own mistrust of everyone and everything.

definitely want to put on your reading list well that brings us to the end of the show but don't up for get about our website if you need to check out the culture so from all of us here in berlin take care and rock on until next time he doesn't and by.

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