Welcome to the first round of Mystery Lyrics 2.0 in 2010 with your host Dave.

Taking up the lead from Mike, today I am going to present you with a band I saw Live between Christmas and the New Year.

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This anglo-german band achieved modest success in much of Europe from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, particularly in Germany where they were named artist of the year by the German Phono Academy in 1977. That same year, their self-titled debut album reached #92 in the US and the single Time Bomb reached #83, which would prove to be their greatest success in the US. They toured the US in the late 1970s as the opening act for various headline acts, including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Oak Arkansas, and Neil Young. After their contract with CBS was discontinued the label released previously unavailable live material from stage appearances between May 1979 and October 1980. The band was able to sign another contract with the German Polydor label and in 1984 they released album #6, No Time for Heroes.

Alex Conti 2009

They disbanded in 1988 and in 1991 singer James Hopkins-Harrison died from an overdose of heroin.

At the beginning of the new millennium the band was revived by Alex Conti, including Mike Starrs , Adrian Askew, Mickie Stickdorn and Michael “Bexi” Becker. In March 2005 their first studio recording for 20 years was released: The Blast of Silence.

They are renowned for their rather american sounding “West Coast” sound, which led their own web site to ask the question: “Why would Americans fall in love with foreigners, who “just” sound American, when they have such a wide range of high profile bands at home?”, which they answer themselves … “You not only have to be good, you have to be better than the rest!” Well, I’ll leave that to you to decide …. certainly Alex Conti is in my eyes one of the best rock guitarists around, and Mickie Stickdorn no mean drummer.

The song I am looking for today is from their eponymous album. It is googlable and there is quite a lot of info to be found on the web, so give me the works :)

Thousands of years, full of blood, pain and tears
Yes, he found out that the world hadn’t changed

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LAKE

JESUS CAME DOWN

WTG:
HIL
LYLE (Link to Lyrics)
SEV
CHERYL (Pic)

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