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: 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: www.alphaville.earth/#liveshows
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"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
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#alphaville
#biginjapan #foreveryoung #1984

[@wesamshbair3982]

Anyone in 2024?❤

[@vessto]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@dorinamihalache6671]

👍😊Me too, I've been listening to this masterpiece ever since! This song can listening every time and everywhere, it doesn't lose it's magic. ✨🎶✨

[@anikokarolyi1072]

❤

[@user-be2vi8in2r]

Я

[@denabedri4034]

Yup 🎉

[@user-oj6bt3td3h]

Хит на века. И никто не кривляется и не дёргается, музыка огонь! Голоса круть! Чистый кайф!

[@alexstepanov678]

40 лет,а как будто вчера!!!!! Мы всегда будем слушать музыку нашей молодости!!! Такие хиты навсегда с нами!

[@eduardolima3138]

Concordo plenamente com a sua opinião 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@marceauxhugues8731]

Exactement ❤👍🇫🇷

[@dawnjeanballard2874]

Makes me feel old. O wait. I am 😂😅

[@wagnarmontelo2408]

Simplesmente maravilhosa 🤩👏👏👏👏

[@PavelNasyrov]

Одна из лучших песен!!!

[@AlbertShowXXI]

Неужели уже 40 лет прошло. А как будь-то было вчера. Во истину Forever Young!

[@sheilasouthern3454]

Still listening 2024 ❤

[@nadiapienar8464]

Daa și noii 😊😊

[@rudischmidt9680]

Geht unter die Haut Toller Song

[@zanthony1286]

no

[@poulkomarov4541]

шикарный голос... до мурашек... учитесь, рэпперы

[@adrianodias7462]

Quem aí ouvindo este obra prima musical em 2024? 🙋‍♂️🇧🇷

[@vessto]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Urusmartan687]

🙋

[@carlosfrancisco8515]

Opa tamos juntos!!!

[@claricedeassis5360]

fevereiro

[@user-gt4ey7vt9i]

Beaucoup de monde. Dont moi😂

[@user-ij5ku8wc8i]

Nobody can erase any part of his memory,i miss this great time when music was really MUSIC.

[@nadiapienar8464]

Daaa , ...Doamne ce muzica , ce timpuri de aurr am trait

[@switchedon6530]

Totally agree...80's incredible music by a country mile👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@alnash1227]

💥Фанаты,не скупитесь на похвалы,ведь это звёздный час нашего любимого Alphaville!!!❤ 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Alphaville forever!!! ✌🏻🥰✌🏻

[@vessto]

👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@cherryhazard8002]

I'm happy for the fact this song exists, I'm not happy by the fact we'll never have masterpieces like this again.

[@AlexMelnikovV]

Почему же, будет

[@Mark-vc1dr]

Never is a long time.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ehilton7044]

Love this x

[@natashalimarenco7733]

❤❤❤песни юности,

[@user-id4jo2vt5b]

Мне было 15 лет, когда первый раз услышала эту песню . Сейчас мне 55 лет. Но, в душе те же 15, когда слышу эту песню! Супер! Зажигает сердце! Дрожь бежит по жилам! Даль , что то время прошло! Но песня всё время напоминает о том, подростковом возрасте! Клааааааааааасная песня! Вечно молодая!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-zr1sn3gk5f]

Мне 52 года. 🤝 Тоже подпеваю, как и раньше. 👍

[@maksimsmirnov1512]

Ровесница,полностью с тобой согласен!Нам повезло,мы родились и выросли в лучшее время на земле,став свидетелями рождения величайших событий и замечательных хитов!👏❤❤❤❤❤

[@clarafisher2991]

Моя однаклассница из греции привезла диск, магнитофон японский и на кассету этот диск уже переписанный. Это был 1984

[@andro1263]

​@@clarafisher2991какой диск в 1984 году? Пластинки и катушки. Кассеты относительно недавно появились в союзе. Дефицит.

[@user-lv9mr2qh4t]

@@andro1263 на ДВ дефицита не было ни в кассетах ни в магнитофонов Япония была рядом

[@dorinamihalache6671]

You did it Alphaville... 40 years ago... You did it!!! Big inJapan was an immediate smashing hit and still is today in 2024!!! 🏆💎💯💖🍀🌟✨✨✨✨

[@alnash1227]

✌🏻1984✌🏻💥✌🏻2024✌🏻

[@carlosfrancisco8515]

Eu curto hoje e sempre!!!

[@jasperbarlow2582]

Totally agree, i loved this tune when i was a spotty 13 year old, still love it now( 53 year old, have lost the spots though)

[@dorinamihalache6671]

​@@jasperbarlow2582 Thank you 👍😊🎶🎶🎶

[@dorinamihalache6671]

​@@carlosfrancisco8515 👍😊Yes, Amazing Alphaville and their music 💯🎶

[@sergeysegliuk1772]

Песня на времена. Прекрасная ностальгия по 80-м...

[@MazaganMazagan-st6pk]

Who is listening to this song now?

[@vessto]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@alnash1227]

💥🎧💓

[@bangs415]

I've been listening to this song for years and it's still on my playlist.

[@sonyasanchez2385]

Yo desde España

[@xrysoulaveresoglou8679]

From Greece

[@OzgunY]

🥰😍🤗 It seems like only yesterday... My dearest, lovely Alphaville. I love you so much. Here's to many more glorious forty years together...

[@LeeWarne-qi6bk]

Here, here!! 🙌🫶 Incredible memories

[@hai.1820]

Di mi? 🙃

[@RealMozart]

And it was yesterday... 40 years ago...

[@user-ud5me9rq1h]

Музыка на все времена это не Шаман

[@user-ud5me9rq1h]

Музыка на все времена это не Шаман

[@vitalich6600]

Класс. Спасибо автору и исполнителю.

[@user-mk6wt7vs9x]

Это одна из моих любимых песен !!! Шикарная музыка !!!

[@user-er9ss1wk6s]

И перевод классный, и книга суперская

[@alnash1227]

💥Ты дотронулся до наших сердец однажды... 💓🖐Оказалось, это роман длинною в жизнь... 💝Ваша навеки...🙏

[@user-lt6qt8to6o]

Молодость!!! Как будто бы всё было вчера!!!

[@Paul_Templer]

I'm 54 and love this song as much now as I did on its original release. In fact, probably more!

[@user-rv8hw9md2g]

Мне тоже 54 и всё ништяк.✌

[@Sepp76263]

I was born in 1984 and it is 2024 already...🎉

[@maozedung7270]

I m in1948

[@chai_postavb]

Мне тогда было 9 лет , это до сих пор звучит классно 🎹🥁🎸👍🎤

[@user-us9nx6qv3i]

Я только в первый класс пошёл в '84ом году. 😢

[@OlesyaGolyakova]

А мне было 4 годика))).

[@user-pz8pz6ie2y]

мне тоже было 9

[@isabelvetkina]

Мне 6😂

[@alessandroevangelista2502]

Rapaz, 40 anos hoje, em 01/02/2024. Incrível como não fica velha.

[@mysimplelife4383]

Какие вы классные❤❤❤, нам тогда было по 18 лет, какое время!❤ Вы были мечтой многих!

[@yxghostxy5320]

Till the end of days this song will be big

[@user-hy5qy4ig7p]

The best hit!!! ✌️

[@user-ri3pn5py7r]

Какая же классная песня обожаю люблю❤

[@user-fh4ik8hx6s]

40 years later still same feeling❤

[@dorinamihalache6671]

Perfect sound of his voice and synthesizers! 🌟💖The sound of this song, is huge, 🌟💖The Alphaville sound, unique💯🎶💖 After 40 years, the sound is still fresh and so AMAZING!!! 🎶🌟🎶

[@vessto]

And the story in the description is great. So sweet he shared these memories. I wish I can back in time and hug and kiss this gorgeous epitome of male beauty too. 😊😊

[@dorinamihalache6671]

​​​​@@vessto👍Yes great story, a little bit funny, but these are beautiful memories of the legendary Alphaville... At their very first TV Show!!! And we only got to know later about that remarkable day when Alphaville will perform Big inJapan on TV Show. And the pullovers were so itchy 😊, a little detail that I never knew. And how he get the kiss on his cheeks from Joan Baez... Very emotional and beautiful story 😊.... Yeah...if will be possible going back in time.... I will hug him too 🤗😘💓🌹✨✨✨

[@debgabriel9391]

Memories don't fade they just haunt us. RIP my sweet Jenn.

[@user-fl9he5hb7z]

Какая красивая музыка была когда мне было 6 лет.. Жаль я это тогда не слышал,... Но сейчас с большим удовольствием слушаю. Спасибо с опозданием свом👏

[@MarcGrafZahl]

I actually saw this on TV that very day! I remember those awful jerseys, the singer wearing those gloves, and that I instantly loved the song. I was nearly 13 years old then. Later, I bought the album when it came out. And I still think"Forever young" is one of the greatest pop albums of all time.

[@andersquist8436]

I like their clothes 🇨🇦

[@armandoalvarezcontreras501]

Entonces somos casi de la misma edad. Felicidades tanto a ti como a mi por haber vivido esa epoca dorada del tiempo.

[@rodbof5624]

The best! This is the first presentation on TV. 40 years ago! Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱

[@mymoonams]

Bellos ❤

[@SleepyAirplaneWindow-dh9jc]

I feel so emotional listening to this song, just going down memory lane growing up in Africa when this was released. 80s the best times in life

[@mustafaakcok8685]

Bugün bir yerde 40ncı yıldönümü olduğunu okudum ve sağlanan linkle buraya geldim. Dinleyince gençlik yıllarımı hatırladım. Bu şarkı, melodisi ve sözleriyle tam bir efsane.

[@edwigespiano801]

This Song remains throughout decades and it's hipnotyzing

[@user-nr2cq7wn9d]

Не видел их такими молодыми. Супер команда! Как всегда 80е - лучшие!!!

[@Smoke_BlooD]

Самое любимое произведение автора, музыка по истине отлично гармонирует со всем! Спасибо Вам!

[@hadiabbasi7924]

Alphaville is the Best in my opinion! Marian Gold has the best most beautiful and most powerful voice in the world!

[@jackhydrazine1376]

Still listening in 2030!

[@user-rc2vh4td4j]

Как же приятно видеть это видео в хорошем качестве. Ребята, вы потрясающие, сейчас таких не делают. С любовью❤❤❤.

[@TrInc-sh3kn]

Used to go to a place called Reflections in Toronto, 20 bucks in our pockets and spent all night drinking beers and bouncing around to great tunes like this....poor buggers nowadays, don't know what good times and freedom is, 80s you were the best, always alive in my mind

[@user-jw9it3yu7r]

можно слушать вечно

[@edithdesouza8899]

I love this song!!!

[@alnash1227]

💥This is your first outing, Big in Japan! 💓Heart flutters... 🎉Happy anniversary, our favorite hit!!!🎉 ✌🏻🥰✌🏻

[@arina0723]

Legend ❤ I adore Mariana’s magnetism

[@grey8308]

Хорошо оцифровали !!!! Качество огонь !!!

[@user-vd6rd4bb5j]

если один раз услышал эту группу в молодости, уже не забудешь. так и будет звучать всю жизнь. браво "Альфавил"!

[@user-fh4ik8hx6s]

My favourite❤

[@user-ss7fg9pr8e]

C'est clair

[@Nik-nh3xr]

1980-1989 the Best Time forever ❤

[@khaladsaad.al-mowallad6532]

I strongly agree with you. I am a 45-year-old man. The best years of my childhood and adolescence were between 1989-1989. Good memories, my friend.👍

[@svetlanan.2687]

Шедевр! ❤️❤️❤️ Качество видео просто супер! 👍

[@vessto]

Да, ролик-диамант. 😊

[@francoiszdanowicz]

Meisterschaft! Marian and his kumpels made their mark in the history of German pop

[@gabrielbehd704]

I remember when I was a teenager in the early 2000s. I bought a mix CD and this song came on and I was impressed with the music of the 80s.💯⚡

[@Danilaeasy]

С юбилеем, любимая мелодия!❤

[@sergiyivanov4619]

🔝📀 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👏😃❤ Благодарен за приятные воспоминания о нашей молодости. 👋😊

[@stelag9751]

Marzo 2024 ... bellissima canzone....i capolavori non muoiono mai ❤️

[@cleidemariamoraesdequeiroz1557]

Já se passaram 40anos e agente nunca esquece dessa música

[@oliverhartmann1035]

Waren im Konzert. War einfach Klasse.

[@alawide6794]

❤ I like it 👏❤ Thank you very much ❤👋👋👋👋👋👋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@jehovannamariaarciatorres289]

Marion Gold, amazing

[@user-pl1ql9go4z]

His birth name is Hartwg Schierbaum, born in Herford/ Germany 🇩🇪 , I'am also born in Herford and I knew him before his world career took off. ❤

[@frankneudeck-vz2tp]

My favorite song. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-ss7fg9pr8e]

Qu'ils étaient beaux 😊💚

[@Inglidis]

Amo amor amo guitarra sou apaixonada por guitarra sou apaixonada por piano só apaixonada por bateria só apaixonada por violino sou apaixonada por você meu namorado do braço tatuado nos coreanos eu tô dançando ainda suga olha que lindo essa música eu dancei muito no passado e ela ainda toca muito no presente olha que coisa mais linda o passado nunca morre

[@Inglidis]

Amo de paixão essa música mais antiga linda do mundo amo sou apaixonado por essa música

[@silvioantonio5798]

Alguém ouvindo essa música linda em 2024 que marcou época !!!!!!!que saudade ❤❤🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@user-iv6js6ok4o]

Amusing,i was born in September 1984😊😊😊,bat i like this

[@vessto]

Forever Young song was released in September 1984. 😊

[@user-iv6js6ok4o]

I dont know, 😊😊😊​@@vessto

[@vessto]

@@user-iv6js6ok4o 😊😊👍👍

[@annauralochka1999]

It's been 40 years😱😱😱

[@user-wh6od4oi9s]

Музыка детства!))

[@mariajudithramirezhernande8656]

Me sigue gustando esta canción a mis 56 años ❤

[@mariainmaculadaramosutrill1844]

Dear Mary im 58 & still do❤🎉

[@alnash1227]

💥Thank you very much!🙏💓

[@krasurg]

Отличная музыка....Эх молодость....!!!

[@MarioTorres-ib8vo]

Ese era un gran grupo

[@vessto]

Stunning beauty, stunning voice. Marian, you are one certified dopamine machine!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@sebastianaeliziario1278]

Pra mim um clasico que marcou minha juventude, amo até hoje essa musica

[@candiceeyraud7029]

1:23 pour moi c'était beaucoup plus le chanteur ❤️

[@cynzia_d]

18 years when i discovered this band. Now i am 45 ❤

[@helenknox9925]

2024 y aun sigo escuchando esta canción. Una de las mejores de los 80s ❤

[@Danilaeasy]

Люблю эту песню!❤

[@user-rk8rm7dl7v]

You cant beat a CLASSIC.

[@user-df8zd5zb5d]

До сих пор актуально и завораживает! Навсегда!

[@dashakushenova3534]

молодость прекрасная пора , жаль что не вернуть назад и всеравно мы благодарны той времени...❤❤❤❤❤

[@MohamedaboarefALShemy]

ايام المراهقة ما اجملها من ايام لا تعود ...لكن تبقي الذكريات

[@leandrovieira3244]

Acabou, a música boa não existe mais. Saudades da música até os anos 90. Depois disso, podemos contar nos dedos as músicas boas lançadas.

[@hayleylewis1379]

I used to like this when I was younger and still do x

[@simonanders5676]

UK..2024........Marian G.......you have more fans around Europe , than you actually realise....hello from the UK .

[@martinruano4537]

Fantástico fantástica música ❤❤❤

[@user-qv5hr7dr4x]

QUE HERMOSOS ANGELES DELEITANDO A LA HUMANIDAD CON SU TALENTO Y DON DEL CIELO❤ DIOS LES BENDIGA GRANDEMENTE EN SALUD Y BONDAD.🙏🙏🙏❗

[@candiceeyraud7029]

👍👍👍

[@marcelorubio4903]

Lo mejor de lo mejor❤❤❤

[@vessto]

I am never tired to repeat. This is not just a song and this is not just a man. This is The Song and this is The Man.

[@MrDrende]

Que viva la música de los 80's...!!! Cuantas bandas musicales desfilaron en esa década prodigiosa!!!...😀🥰🎼🎵🎶💃🥰💯👍👍💯

[@JoselandiaSales]

Eu amo demais está música ❤❤❤❤❤

[@DonnaMcpherson-kq4by]

Great music. Love the lyrics. Loved the delivery of the performance. Very addictive.

[@Poritan]

Thanks for share I love your music ❤❤❤

[@luanadepaula92]

What a brilliant start to this successful 40-year journey! 🎉🎉🎉 I love Alphaville!!!

[@RafiqulIslam-hz3bm]

1984, I was 17 years 2024, I am 57 years old 40 years has gone ... But, that Song is same ... ... ...

[@edsonlima7254]

Eu ou ouvindo em 28/05/2024 Alphaville, Big in Japan, lembrando aqui o passado que não volta mais.

[@andreasill8153]

Oh man ist das lange her ich war damals noch 13 als das raus kam.😉👍🧡🔥Alphaville for ever.❤❤❤

[@natasasoasic5145]

LOVE LOVE FROM SERBIA!

[@sharonbravo961]

Excelente cancion

[@RaymondeBEGUS-fb9ys]

En. ces. Années. 1984. Adorable. Alphaville. une. 🌟♥️💯💯

[@chiozzimarisel5062]

Para la eternidad este tema nunca morirá ❤ los amo !

[@stefanodellatorre1217]

Quanti ricordi sembra ieri top 🎉grandi

[@canaldequalquercoisa]

I never got tired of listening to masterpieces

[@saradosreis3112]

Bons tempos. Era feliz e ñ sabia

[@Ciclopea2]

The fact that this was 40 years ago kinda freaks me out lol, i was a small child but i knew i loved this song, and still do, it's evergreen.

[@andreainguane1689]

Manchmal frage ich mich, wie mein Leben verlaufen wäre, wenn ich damals diesen euren Auftritt nicht im TV gesehen hätte....❤