Marius Müller-Westernhagen | 75Live

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Marius Müller-Westernhagen | 75Live

Devotion, humility, passion: When Marius Müller-Westernhagen turns an incredible 75 years old in December 2023, he will be able to look back on one of the greatest careers this country has ever seen. This is how this text could begin, but it would only be half the truth. Because he is still in the middle of it!

With his fantastic current album, "Das eine Leben", Marius Müller-Westernhagen has also finally gained attention and respect in the German cultural landscape. A critic of the FAZ wrote about it: "The one life - that's all Marius Müller-Westernhagen has, and it is touching how he expresses this fact, which is anything but new, but which abruptly shakes everyone it catches up with, as, if we have calculated correctly, currently the oldest still really productive German rock'n'roller."

Now that's something to celebrate: "75 Live" means 75 years of Westernhagen, 23 albums that have sold over 17 million copies, including eight number one albums. He has written, produced and performed hits like "Freiheit", "Sexy", "Lass uns leben", "Es geht mir gut" and so many others. So in May 2023, Marius Müller-Westernhagen will embark on a grand tour to celebrate this career, life and rock'n'roll. On the setlist: a journey through his extensive body of work.

Because even if Marius Müller-Westernhagen is a great album artist: the natural habitat of this artist is and always has been the stage. Last but not least, this career is not only one of the most formative, but also one of the only authentic rock'n'roll stories from Germany. Even before his first albums, Marius Müller-Westernhagen spent nights in sweaty cellars paying homage to the blues and early rock'n'roll; he was and is that "singer in 'ner rock'n'roll band" he sang about in "Mit 18". And yet, over all these years, he has constantly developed and reinvented himself artistically on the basis of "his music". And he has always remained true to himself. This perhaps explains the impressively long career that continues to this day.

"Rock'n'roll is dying again?" asks Marius rhetorically - and provides the answer right away: "Never, at least not for me, as long as I can or am allowed to put my foot on a stage to make nice noise - and of course there are still enough people willing to listen to me."

The never-ending pandemic had set an unexpected and painful caesura for Marius Müller-Westernhagen, as for all other people on this planet. Among other things, he had to cancel the tour planned by theaters and opera houses (a heart project of Westernhagen). All the more he is now looking forward to the concerts on the occasion of his 75th birthday, which will take him back to the biggest arenas of the republic in 2024. With the exceptional musicians of his U.S. band, with whom the singer-songwriter has been uncovering the wildly throbbing heart of his music for years, he wants to get as loud as possible at eight concerts in May 2023: "I want to make some nice noise again," says Marius Müller-Westernhagen. "Let's rock! Damn it, the time demands it!"