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Alphaville - Big In Japan (Flashlights, 01.02.1984)

FLASHLIGHTS, OR HOW BOB DYLAN SENT US AN ANGEL Find Marian Gold's words on Alphaville's very first TV appearance on the ZdF TV show "Flashlights" below... ALPHAVILLE - BEST OF 40 YEARS TOUR Tickets: https://www.alphaville.earth/#liveshows KEMPTEN - 02.11.2024 ZÜRICH - 03.11.2024 BREMEN - 16.11.2024 LÜNEBURG - 17.11.2024 LINGEN - 29.11.2024 WETZLAR - 30.11.2024 NÜRNBERG - 10.12.2024 PFORZHEIM - 11.12.2024 KIEL - 23.01.2025 HANNOVER - 24.01.2025 DÜSSELDORF - 06.02.2025 BOCHUM - 07.02.2025 BERLIN - 13.02.2025 HAMBURG - 14.02.2025 WIEN - 22.02.2025 FREIBURG - 01.03.2025 FRANKFURT AM MAIN - 02.03.2025 MANNHEIM - 08.03.2025 BIELEFELD - 09.03.2025 MAGDEBURG - 17.03.2025 STUTTGART - 14.04.2025 SAARBRÜCKEN - 15.04.2025 LEIPZIG - 29.04.2025 DRESDEN - 30.04.2025 MÜNCHEN - 27.05.2025 More Liveshows: -MÜNCHEN - 23.06.2024 BAD ELSTER - 28.06.2024 FRANKFURT ODER - 13.07.2024 CALW - 29.07.2024 BAD FÜSSING - 01.08.2024 MALLORCA - 10.08.2024 STOCKHOLM - 15.08.2024 ALZEY - 17.08.2024 DINSLAKEN - 18.08.2024 WEIßENFELS - 23.08.2024 KASSEL - 25.08.2024 USTI NAD LABEM - 31.08.2024 CLUJ-NAPOCA - 21.09.2024 BUDAPEST - 12.10.2024 FREIBURG - 09.11.2024 PRAG - 14.11.2024 MADRID - 26.04.2025 FINKENSTEIN - 23.08.2025 Tickets: https://www.alphaville.earth/#liveshows ------------------------------- "If you want to step into the limelight for the first time in your life with a few decent songs, and suddenly the world that previously ignored you is spinning like a carousel gone mad, then a prime-time TV date doesn't stand out that much in all the confusion. And as this date becomes more and more prominent among all those radio interviews, clothes shopping sessions, pages of contract blahblah, third-class hotel rooms and sanctimonious tartuffs, who wouldn't have lent you a euro a few months ago, you start to worry. None of us had the faintest idea of all the promotional gimmicks it takes to catch the eye and interest of the public in a sea of competing cheap-Jacks. Landing this gig was a unique opportunity that we couldn't afford to blow. Did we have stage fright? Yes, we did. During the rehearsals, the three and a half meters from the Japanese wooden chair, where I was condemned to sit by stage directions, to the microphone at the edge of the stage felt like a tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon. And what did we have to offer anyway besides our Norwegian jumpers, which we hated, our iron Eastwestfalian stubbornness, which had led up to this point despite all our self-doubt, and an inexplicably precise intuition for the right decisions? That we were in fact brilliant songwriters with a major hit in our luggage we didn't know at the time ... however, we suspected it. So there we were, sitting in the dressing room of the ZdF Broadcasting Centre in Mainz, eagerly awaiting our very first television appearance. At some point we were ordered into make-up one after the other and when I finally wanted to go back to our dressing room, all festively painted, I promptly got lost in the maze of corridors in the building. And suddenly, like an apparition from another world, Joan Baez stood right before me. What I haven't mentioned yet - the evening's programme consisted of her, Gazebo, Udo Lindenberg and us greenhorns, a pretty bizarre line-up from today's perspective, but back then we had other problems, mainly to do with our pullovers, which were miserably itchy. Joan, who at best might have heard of Gazebo, was still able to categorise me correctly. Looking at my woollen outfit, she spread her arms and said in her broadest American accent: "Oh, how sweet, you must be from this German newcomer band. I heard your song during the rehearsal, I really like it." And with these words she hugged me and gave me a friendly kiss. - What can I say? Joan was an idol to me, a legend of US country and folk music, a veritable political activist, companion to Bob Dylan and a bright star in the rock'n'roll sky of my sleepless nights. Could it be that I had just felt on my cheek the lips that had no doubt already graced sainted Bob on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean? I felt completely flattened and this happiness gave me angel wings as I crossed the Grand Canyon an hour later together with Frank, Bernard and "Big In Japan"." -Marian Gold . . . Follow Alphaville on: Instagram: alphaville.official Facebook: alphavilleofficial TikTok: alphaville And for upcoming shows and more: www.alphaville.earth Footage licensed from ZDF Studios. All rights reserved. #alphaville #biginjapan #foreveryoung #1984