In autumn 1984, they released their debut album, Forever Young, produced by Colin Pearson, Wolfgang Loos and Andreas Budde. Main article: Forever Young (Alphaville album) We didn’t have much hope, but we had three offers and from that moment everything happened very fast." Forever Young (1984) We had a little studio in a basement, made a couple of demos and sent them to some record companies to try to get a deal. The equipment we had at that time was basically toys – the cheapest monophonic synthesizers you could imagine. The music was in our heads, but we were dependent on synthesizers and drum machines and things like that. In the early years, Gold said that "none of us could really play an instrument. In 1984, the newly renamed Alphaville released their debut single, "Big in Japan". The first Alphaville concert took place on 31 December, 1982 in Enger, Westphalia. Together the three wrote Forever Young and recorded their first demo of the same name. They first named their band "Forever Young" and subsequently changed it to "Alphaville" after the 1965 science fiction film. Gold had written "Big in Japan" in 1979 after hearing the music of Holly Johnson's band Big in Japan. The pair were heavily influenced by UK indie acts like Tubeway Army, Gary Numan and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). 1.9 2018–present: Collaboration and Eternally YoursĪlphaville was formed after lead singer Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd met in Berlin in 1981.
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