Der Junge mit der Gitarre | es

Born in 1976 in Germany, Der Junge mit der Gitarre ("The boy with the guitar") only had a short-lived career which started at the Bizarre Festival's "Speakers Corner" in 1998. For a couple of years he played at the Bizarre Festival during the breaks, while the stage was being prepared for the next band. In 2002 he had a summer hit with Meer Sehen and released the album Dagegen. He had a chance to go to the "Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson" in 2003, but didn't make it through the pre-rounds. This experience, as well as the hatred from...

Rote Gitarren aka Czerwone Gitary (The Red Guitars) is one of the most popular rock bands in the history of Polish popular music. The band formed in 1965 and achieved its greatest success from 1965 to 1970. Often considered the Polish equivalent of the Beatles, many of their hits are now classics in Poland. The group toured extensively outside Poland (in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, United States, Germany and Soviet Union) but had mostly disappeared from the Polish scene by the 1980s. The band reformed in the 1990s. The Czerwone Gitary were founded by guitarist/vocalist Jerzy Kossela and bassist Henryk Zomerski on...

Kriminella Gitarrer was formed in the beginning of 1977 in Klippan, a small town in the south of Sweden, by Stry (vocals), Sticky Bomb (drums), Affe (bass) and Mats P (guitarr). Kriminella Gitarrer belonged to the first generation of Swedish punk bands. They released two 7"s in '78 after which Stry left for Malmö, while the rest band released a final single and toured for a while. They were not the most influential but they managed to produce a great number of rough and imaginative punk songs before they split up in 1979. Stry Terrarie went on to form Stry...