body about state surveillance seen through the lens of the east german secret police the stasi i'm. sure. all 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 to mulch us career well now he's back with a new album according to critics better than ever so i will speak to him right after that's. his trademark is the flying v. michael schenker. shaping with the right tone is a track off the new album revelation by the group my coaching professed. shankar

was born in saw me a handover in 1955 he grew up playing the guitar with his older brother. played an issue lead together in school but michael moved on becoming that he could charge for british rock band. michael shank his career spans 5 to cane and has made him one of the most famous german guitarists in the world. and he's with me in the studio michael sanker well. it's a valid so great to have you here and that was 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 schenker fast. you know i realize that i have

performed the most popular music of like this thank god but not with the original somehow we have gone full circle. and cycle and you know i thought it would be great if i could do the you know maybe not live the clowes film walk that maybe 80 singers of the called up there waiting the musicians the same thing you know that you know is something that was meant to be to everybody's having so much fun i want to i want to talk a 2nd so that we can listen to the guitar solo from rocksteady of the people the music of the field and it's a. pretty picture style so unique. but maybe in your spouse in the hall because you need to listen to music since i was 17 i discovered it 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 of your own guitar style ok and i legend has it that you played your 1st gig with scorpions in a nightclub when you were 11 years old is that even trip 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 turn 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 fam relate back and forth and yet people still speak of the shankar 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 from phenomenon to force to no heavy petting lights all that obsession. strangers in the night by everybody i'm going to do my own thing. 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've really only lived together. did things together when i was a disco consumed on something. and the rest of the movie didn't really you know hang out together anything because i was little and i just later tonight with them quite successfully. yeah we did with the lonesome crow that was when i was 15 and 60 and then i joined your fall and then you know i was invited to do i

was asked to help the scorpions would love to drive. you know and i think more but 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 all during with but i do or do it you know he did back actually crying on the phone michael please stay in the band again because i felt so bad for him and he talked about bringing the original guys back for a year for this album and you actually want to ward back in 2010 for rock n roll like sas and for living on the edge that was the marshall 11 what about now or that would you say you're mellowing out is it possible for michael shanks 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 bear on the truth you know

people just arias that you've even had a guitar named after the dean shanker. schenker v. which i wish you brought. 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 and 15 years of michael schenker music what's what's your feeling going into that. in japan actually we're doing for 3 years and was just special and we're doing actually quite interesting show with simon phillips and. drums a set b. said we're playing 2 nights tokyo 5000 you have to. stick and 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 and to see it every night every morning it was important for me when we chose this but. i had to see it. just to watch the potomac river 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 it including bob who lives in the 16th with her husband just to

whites research eventually turned into a book project called to i felt like a. section of pictures showing the tower from the homes of police and residents. this. is so magnetic and it just this is that you have to use this somehow after kind of use this tower to to tell a story about it. and that's how we started. since 2040 jasper has visited 40 homes from a luxury apartment on the sand to student digs on the city outskirts what they all share is a view of the eiffel tower. very interesting to find out how people bonded a little she's caught up with this view the parents they were at night they need to cousins open there isn't any nightlife 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 you know 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 room with a view. yes a sight that definitely warms my heart well our weekly book tip is a novel that's been called the perfect book for paranoid times i've gotten him was a german author and poet back in communist east germany and the 2nd novel i approach the internal struggle 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 in 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 guy who 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. is his novel about writing about the east german surveillance states about a regime destroyed in part by its own mistrust of everyone and everything. definitely

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