Peter Maffay

Peter Maffay, 2009
Background information
Birth name Peter Alexander Makkay
Born (1949-08-30) August 30, 1949 (age 62)
Origin Braşov, Transylvania, Romania
Genres Rock, Musicals
Years active 1969–present
Labels BMG Ariola
Website www.maffay.de

Peter Alexander Makkay (born August 30, 1949) better known as Peter Maffay is a German musician.

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Biography [link]

Born in Brasov, Romania, the son of a German (Transylvanian Saxon), he was 14 when his family relocated to his parents' (West) Germany in 1963. In the same year, he started his first band, The Dukes. After completing his education and working for Chemigraphics, an art manufacturer, Maffay worked in clubs, where he distributed his music.

Peter Maffay's career started with the publication of his first single, "Du" (You in German). It was the biggest German hit in 1970 and brought Maffay instant fame. With the album Steppenwolf in 1979, Maffay became a major music star in Germany. The album sold 1.6 million copies, making it the best selling LP at that time. In 1980, the album Revanche (Revenge) broke his previous record, selling 2.1 million copies.

Maffay holds the German record for the most number one ranked singles in the single and album sales charts, including 12 albums.[1] In addition, most of his studio albums reached the top ten.[1] He also holds a German record for most albums to have sold over one million copies, with 14. His latest album,Laut und Leise (Loud and Quiet), became the fourteenth.

Altogether, Maffay has sold over 35 million records. Since 1980, each of his 13 tours (roughly every 2 years) has ranked among the three most visited attractions each season in Germany, with nine of them ranked first in that category.

Maffay also created a string of fairy tales about a little green dragon named Tabaluga, which was spread out onto five albums. The piece was also turned into a musical. Maffay went on tour individually with Tabaluga & Lilli in Germany; he later released a live album, DVD and live TV broadcast. The tour included Peter Maffay, Alexis, Nino de Angelo, Rufus Beck, and Carl Carlton among others.

In 1998, Maffay created an album in collaboration with artists from all corners of the world, including Aboriginal singers and musicians from Israel, called "Begegnungen". Julia Neigel, another famous German artist, is one of the musicians he usually works with in lyrics and singing in duets. She wrote two of his top singles - "Freiheit Die Ich Meine" and "Siehst Du die Sonne", a cover of Michel Polnareff's "Le Poupeé qui fait non".

He also starred in two films directed by Peter Patzak: The Joker in 1986, and Captured in Yemen in 1999. In addition, Maffay played a supporting role in the feature "The Polar Bear".

On 12 March 2011, Maffay received the Steiger Award (Germany).

Personal life [link]

Peter Maffay is active in politics and sometimes inserts his own political stances into his music. He is a peace activist, and in 2005 he performed a concert for German ISAF troops in Afghanistan. Maffay also donates to projects for traumatised and abused children. On the Spanish island of Majorca, he established a ranch where traumatised children from all over the world can have a free two-week holiday to help them cope with their problems. For his social commitment, he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1996, and, in 2001, he received an award called "Goldene Henne" ("The Golden Hen").

Peter Maffay has been married four times, has a son and lives with his family on a farm on Majorca. One of his hobbies is motorcycle riding. In 1972, Maffay was severely injured in an accident after crashing his Harley Davidson. Later in life, he crossed the Sahara Desert several times on an off-road motorcycle.

The band [link]

Since the beginning of Maffay's musical career, Carl Carlton has played guitar in many projects. Likewise, for many years, Bertram Engel (drums), Ken Taylor (bass) and Jean-Jacques Kravetz (piano) have worked with Maffay as well. Some time later, Jean-Jaques Kravetz brought his son Pascal Kravetz (guitar) with him into the fold. In 2004, Frank Dietz, Andreas Becker, some of Maffay's friends from the band left to pursue other projects. The newest addition to the band is the Hamburg guitarist, Peter Keller.

Discography [link]

  • 1970: Für das Mädchen, das ich liebe (CD / LP) (For the Girl that I Love)
  • 1971: Du bist wie ein Lied (CD / LP) (You are like a song)
  • 1972: Omen (CD / 2LP)
  • 1974: Samstagabend in unserer Straße (CD / LP) (Saturday Evening in our Street)
  • 1975: Meine Freiheit (CD / LP) (My Freedom)
  • 1976: Und es war Sommer (CD / LP) (And it was Summer)
  • 1977: Tame & Maffay (CD / LP)
  • 1977: Dein Gesicht (CD / LP) (Your face)
  • 1978: Live (CD / LP)
  • 1979: Steppenwolf (CD / LP)
  • 1979: Tame & Maffay 2 (CD / LP)
  • 1980: Revanche (CD /LP) (Revenge)
  • 1982: Ich will Leben (CD / LP) (I want to live)
  • 1982: Live '82 (CD / LP / VHS)
  • 1983: Tabaluga oder die Reise zur Vernunft (CD / LP) (Tabaluga or the Journey to Reason)
  • 1984: Carambolage (CD / LP)
  • 1984: Deutschland '84 (DVD / VHS)
  • 1985: Sonne in der Nacht (CD / LP / DVD / VHS) (Sun in the Night)
  • 1986: Tabaluga und das leuchtende Schweigen (CD / LP) (Tabaluga and the Luminous Silence)
  • 1987: Live '87 (DVD / VHS)
  • 1988: Lange Schatten (2CD / 2LP) (Long Shadows)
  • 1988: Lange Schatten Tour '88 (CD / LP / VHS) (Long Shadow Tour 1988)
  • 1989: Kein Weg zu Weit (CD / LP / DVD / VHS) (No Way to Far)
  • 1989: Die Story 2 (CD)
  • 1990: Leipzig (CD / LP / VHS)
  • 1991: 38317 (CD / LP)
  • 1991: 38317 — Das Clubconcert (DVD / VHS)
  • 1992: Freunde und Propheten (CD) (Friends and Prophets)
  • 1993: Der Weg 1979–93 (CD / VHS) (The Way 1979 to 1993)
  • 1993: Tabaluga und Lilli (CD) (Tabaluga and Lilli)
  • 1994: Tabaluga und Lilli Live (2CD / VHS) (Tabaluga and Lilli Live)
  • 1996: Sechsundneunzig (CD) (Ninety-Six)
  • 1996: Sechsundneunzig — Das Clubconcert (DVD / VHS) (Ninety Six — Club Concert)
  • 1997: 96 Live (2CD / DVD / VHS)
  • 1998: Begegnungen (CD / DVD / VHS)
  • 1999: Begegnungen Live (2CD)
  • 2000: X (CD)
  • 2001: Heute vor dreissig Jahren (CD) (Thirty Years ago)
  • 2001: Heute vor dreissig Jahren — Live (DVD) (Thirty Years ago — Live)
  • 2002: Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück (CD) (Gift of Luck)
  • 2004: Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück — Live (DVD) (Gift of Luck)
  • 2005: Laut und Leise (2CD / 2DualDisc) (Loud and Quiet)
  • 2006: Begegnungen, eine Allianz fuer Kinder (CD / DVD) (Encounters, an Alliance for Children)PR:M.Y
  • 2007: Frohe Weihnachten mit Tabaluga (CD) (Merry Christmas with Tabaluga)
  • 2008: Ewig (CD / DVD) (Forever)
  • 2010: Tattoos (40 Jahre Maffay-Alle Hits-Neu Produziert) (CD) (DE: #1, 1x Platinum) [2]
  • 2011: Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit (CD) (Tabaluga and the signs of the times)

References [link]

  1. ^ a b A German charts database
  2. ^ https://www.mtv.de/charts/album50

External links [link]

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Help Me

Help Me may refer to:

  • Mayday (distress signal), the English pronunciation of the French phrase "venez m'aider" ("Come help me")
  • "Help Me" (House), the sixth season finale of House

    • Music

    Albums

  • Help Me (album), a 1992 album by Jaci Velasquez

    • Songs

  • "Help Me" (Sonny Boy Williamson II song), a 1963 blues standard first recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson II
  • "Help Me" (Joni Mitchell song), a 1974 song from the album Court and Spark
  • "Help Me" (Nick Carter song), a 2002 single from the album Now or Never
  • "Help Me" (Alkaline Trio song), a 2008 single from the album Agony and Irony
  • "Help Me" (Tinchy Stryder song), a 2012 single from the album Full Tank
  • "Help Me", a song by E-40 from his 2012 album The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 1
  • "Help Me", a song by Deuce from the album Nine Lives
  • "Help Me!" (Marcy Levy and Robin Gibb song), a 1980 song from Times Square: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • "Help Me!!" (Morning Musume song), a 2013 single which was the first to feature Sakura Oda

    • See also

  • Help (disambiguation)
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    Help Me!! (Morning Musume song)

    "Help Me!!" (Help me!!) is the 52nd single by the Japanese female idol group Morning Musume, released in Japan on January 23, 2013.

    Release details

    "Help Me!!" will be the first single by Morning Musume on which Sakura Oda participates.

    The single will be released in eight versions: regular editions A and B and six limited editions: A, B, C, D, E, and F. The Limited Editions A, B, and C will come with a bonus DVD, all the other edition will be CD-only. Also, all the limited editions will include an entry card for the lottery to win a launch event ticket.

    Members at time of single

  • 6th generation: Sayumi Michishige, Reina Tanaka
  • 9th generation: Mizuki Fukumura, Erina Ikuta, Riho Sayashi, Kanon Suzuki
  • 10th generation: Haruna Iikubo, Ayumi Ishida, Masaki Sato, Haruka Kudo
  • 11th generation (debut): Sakura Oda

    • Track listing

    Regular Edition A

    All songs written and composed by Tsunku. 

    Limited Editions A, B, C, Regular Edition B

    Limited Edition D

    Limited Edition E

    Limited Edition F

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    Help Me! (Marcy Levy and Robin Gibb song)

    "Help Me!" is a song by Marcy Levy (better known now as Marcella Detroit) and Robin Gibb. The song was recorded for the official soundtrack of Times Square, and released as the album's lead single, going on to peak at #50 on the Billboard Top 100. It was also considered as Levy's first single and her only song that was charted in the United States.

    Background

    After working on Jimmy Ruffin's Sunrise (including the track "Where Do I Go", a duet by Ruffin and Marcy Levy) Robin Gibb and Bee Gees keyboardist Blue Weaver work together again by supplying tracks for the soundtrack of the film Times Square (an RSO movie). And the result was the song "Help Me!" sung by Levy and Gibb. The song was heard in the film's closing credits.

    Related session outtake, "Touch Me", a song also written by Gibb and Levy with lead vocals provided by Levy as a demo for Linda Clifford but was not recorded by Clifford himself. Weaver says he and Levy didn't like its sexually charged lyrics and Gibb had to talk Levy into singing it. The B-side of the single, an instrumental version of "Help Me!" on which they made two instrumental versions of the same track, one with Gary Brown playing a sax solo.

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    Podcasts:

    Peter Maffay

    ALBUMS

    Wenn das so ist

    Released 2014

    Wenn das so ist - Live

    Released 2014

    Wenn das so ist

    Released 2014

    Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit

    Released 2011

    Tattoos

    Released 2010

    Tattoos

    Released 2010

    Ewig

    Released 2008

    Ewig

    Released 2008

    Frohe Weihnachten mit Tabaluga, Peter Maffay & seinen Freunden

    Released 2007

    Begegnungen: Eine Allianz für Kinder

    Released 2006

    Heute vor dreißig Jahren

    Released 2006

    Laut & Leise

    Released 2005

    Tabaluga und das verschenkte Glück

    Released 2002

    X

    Released 2000

    Wie Feuer und Eis: Rocksongs

    Released 1999

    Begegnungen

    Released 1998

    96 Live

    Released 1997

    Weil es Dich gibt: Die stärksten Balladen

    Released 1997

    96

    Released 1996

    1980-1985

    Released 1995

    Tabaluga und Lilli: Live!

    Released 1994

    Live 82

    Released 1993

    Samstag Abend in Unserer Straße

    Released 1993

    Omen

    Released 1993

    Leipzig

    Released 1993

    Live: Lange Schatten-Tour '88

    Released 1993

    Der Weg: 1979-93

    Released 1993

    Tabaluga und Lilli

    Released 1993

    1971-1979

    Released 1993

    Freunde + Propheten

    Released 1992

    Liebeslieder

    Released 1991

    38317

    Released 1991

    Die Story

    Released 1989

    Kein Weg zu weit

    Released 1989

    Peter Maffay - '73-'75

    Released 1988

    Lange Schatten

    Released 1988

    Stationen

    Released 1986

    Tabaluga und das leuchtende Schweigen

    Released 1986

    Sonne in der Nacht

    Released 1985

    Carambolage

    Released 1984

    Tausend Träume weit

    Released 1984

    Tabaluga oder die Reise zur Vernunft

    Released 1983

    Josie

    Released 1982

    Ich will leben

    Released 1982

    Frei sein: Seine größten Hits

    Released 1980

    Revanche

    Released 1980

    Steppenwolf

    Released 1979

    Live

    Released 1978

    Dein Gesicht

    Released 1977

    1

    Released 1977

    Und es war Sommer

    Released 1976

    Meine Freiheit

    Released 1975

    Du bist wie ein Lied

    Released 1971

    Für das Mädchen, das ich liebe

    Released 1970
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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Ich Hab' Nur Dich

    by: Peter Maffay

    Ich seh' dich an
    und ich fühle genau
    du bist der Mensch
    der mir fehlt
    und alles and're geb' ich für dich auf
    weil außer dir nichts mehr zählt.
    Ich hab' nur dich
    in meinem Leben.
    Ich hab'n nur dich
    dich ganz allein.
    Außer dir wird es nie
    eine and're für mich geben
    denn ich kann ohne dich nicht mehr sein.
    Wenn du mich brauchst
    dann bin ich für dich da.
    Ich tröste dich
    wenn du weinst.
    Ich streich' dir zart
    mit der Hand über's Haar
    und schenk' dir was du erträumst.
    Käme der Tag
    an dem ich dich verlier
    dann wüßte ich nicht wohin.
    Ich sähe im Leben
    kein Ziel mehr vor mir
    was ich auch tu' ist für mich ohne Sinn
    wenn ich nicht bei dir bin.
    Drum laß ich dich niemals mehr geh'n.
    In einer Zeit
    wo sich alles bewegt
    ist uns're Liebe ein Halt.
    Wenn man sich liebt
    und einander versteht




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