comedy 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 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 this. case trademark is the flying v. . with the lights on is a track off the new album revelation by the group my coaching professed. shankar

was born in soest it near hanover in 1955 he grew up playing the guitar with his older brother rudolph. played an issue lead together in school but michael moved on to becoming the lead guitarist for a british rock band you left michael shank his career spans 5 decades 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 sanka fast. you know i realize that i have

performed the most popular music of michael sankoh but not with the original singer somehow we have gone full circle. and cycle and you know i thought it would be great if i could do this you know maybe not move the clouds and film maybe the 80 singers of the called up. there waiting the musicians the same thing you know that nato is something that was meant to be deep into everybody's head and so much fun i want to i want to stop a 2nd so that we can listen to the guitar solo from the rocksteady of all the music of the region. it's your style so. what makes your spouse in the fall because if you don't listen to music yeah 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 up on a daily basis yearly basis the byproduct of own guitar style. legend has it that you played your 1st gig with scorpions in a nightclub and you were 11 years old is that even trip that was actually my 1st concert which is kind of put a 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 really back and forth and yet people still speak of the shanker 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 and 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 phenomena to force to know have it had to light so it obsession with strangers and then i buy 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 little son i have in the 6 and a half years apart you know i'm 16 obvious younger than rudolph and we really only lift together. things together when i was with the spoken simone something. and the rest of the group didn't really you know hang out together anything because i was living in i just played which i played with them quite successfully. yeah we did we did the lonesome crow that was when i was 1516 and then i do in view of all and then you know i was invited to do i was asked to help the scorpions with love

drive. and 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 out during with but i did do it 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 a year for this album and you actually won an award 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 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 they are not true you know people under sorious that you've even had a guitar named after the dean shanker shanker vi which i wish you brought. look at that this is true i. 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 4. years m.s.g. special. we do actually quite interesting show with simon phillips and. drums be said we're playing tonight tokyo $5000.00. and then to all 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 as 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. people really paris you feel. you have. to see it every night every morning it was important for me when we chose this up but. i had to see it that is. just the photographer 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 few including. who lives in the 16th around

a small with her husband just poor whites research eventually turned into a book project called 2 i found a collection of pictures showing the tower from the homes of police and residents. is so magnetic and it just this is that you 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 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 there a little she's caught up with this view and the parents they were at night they leave the curtains open there isn't any night light you know and she has this

amazing relationship with the tower and then when they tell her stories or the stories they kind of a lot of them involve the tower so they play a play with that she has this really emotional bond with. just the white plans to finish and publish it to i fell book project this is. the reason rooms 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. was a german author and poet back in communist east germany and the 2nd novel i approached 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 stasi have a 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. to. the novel i was going to his base is about mass as well before the web it's about a country that sees 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 does he send 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 describes a real 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 me. 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 look for get about our website if you need to check out culture so for all of us here in berlin take care and rock on until next time he does the. kick off. the make things right match. beats the dusseldorf and wins back to. the it'll be all right match up to alpha course possible to win its 1st game this season and berlin breathes a sigh of relief. in

syria no mercy in germany. a surprise visit to an alleged war criminal. the confrontation was preceded by research that pushed both investigators and reporters to their limit. one criminals in germany tracking down a son's henchman. boy oh boy. oh boy. how's it feel of the world. where i come from that or that glitters is gold it's just like with chinese food it doesn't matter where i am it's a bowl with reminds me of home after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but better taking

a step back i see things going to tell the difference with knowledge of many of fluids present or going a sense that it's just the other part of the war which haven't been implemented in china catch me if i'm not to china people wondering if their foot is safe to move but if i have a ride to another and most of that is this is their job a job that of them how i see it and others why i have nothing my job because i tried to do it exactly the hour a day my name is out into it and i work at it up you.

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