Talk:Alphaville (band)

Alphaville singles

Why has the singles: Summer Rain, Mysteries Of Love, The Impossible Dream, Wishful Thinking, Flame, Soul Messiah and I Die For You Today,. all ben deleted and redirected?. Can someone pleas tell me if anyone knows why. Zika-star (talk) 08:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

My guess is because they didn't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines (essentially, they didn't chart in any country). Although, I Die For You Today did chart (or is charting, I guess, because it's out right now), so technically that single should have passed the test. I would support IDFYT being reinstated. 87Fan (talk) 16:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so mutch for the answer. Didn't know that a single had to have charted to be able to make a page for it, well my bad I guess. But just one question. "Forever Young 2001" and "Dance With Me 2001" didn't chart either??, but the page on those to haven't been deleted, but maybe is just me who have miss'd somthingZika-star (talk) 13:29, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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What the heck.. why isn't there an article on the real alphaville band here? Instead of this german unknown. -nevermind, article is back

Germany

This article is somewhat erroneous and somewhat ambiguous. During 1980s, there were no such country as Germany. There were FRG, GDR and West Berlin instead. Grzes 10:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Of course there was, it was just divided into two German states...

Was West Berlin a separate country? Bunnygod888 21:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Germany was a state between 1871 and 1945. From 1945, Germany was under a military occupation by the USA, UK, France and USSR. In 1949, Germany was split into two states, the "Federal Republic of Germany" ("FRG") and the German Democratic Republic ("GDR"). West Berlin was a part of the Federal Republic of Germany, but located with the German Democratic Republic around it. In 1990, some people say they merged into a re-born "Germany". But it is still the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 1990 the former German Democratic Republic became a part of it. We are no longer confused with the names, and don't use the "Federal Republic of" words when talking about that country of today. And if Alphaville was a pop group from the Federal Republic of Germany, it's the same country as today. They still use the 1949 concstitution, not a 1990 one. / J 1982 00:35, 28 July 2007 (CEST)

Was the FDR and GDR recognized internationally? I recall once hearing a story that not all european countries recognized the FDR initially and some actually were officially still "at war" during the late 40's and early 50's due to this technicality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.126.214.137 (talk) 10:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

As of mid 2005 The song "Forever Young" is the single most remixed song in existence besides "Amazing Grace".

If this is real (which I doubt) it at the very least needs a citation required. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.188.245 (talk) 18:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

It's such a small world

This is weird, but seems to be true. Alphaville's website mentions that their singer once bought an EP by Big in Japan, a short-lived 70s british punk rock band. Of course, one has to presume that the title of Alphaville's hit song "Big in Japan" was influenced by the name of that band.

Alphaville's website also mentions that, when their "Big in Japan" reached #1 in Germany, in april 84, it replaced "Relax", by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Here's the weird coincidence: Holly Johnson, the singer of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, used to be the bassist for Big in Japan.

Really makes you go: "wait, what?!" XD -- Stormwatch (talk) 10:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Lots of problems with this article

I love the band, but there are some serious problems with this article:

a) there are no references for anything, including chart positions, bio information, cover versions, and current work. we need to cite references for this stuff. I know it's out there, please help us add them (I don't know them all but I'll do what I can)

b) the section 'Afternoons in Utopia' is either mislabeled (because it has info about everything after 'Forever Young' or it needs to be split up. Personally I think it should be split up and have information added (because there's a lot to say, imho, about this band, in their later albums)

c) the picture! it's cool to have a live picture of the band, but i think we should find something more iconic (if possible), or maybe have a series of pictures of the band over time (since so many members have come and gone) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87Fan (talk • contribs) 18:36, 15 January 2010 (UTC)