For some reason, I've had the song "Kinder des Rock 'n' Roll" by Rolf Zuckowski stuck in my head all day today. So I figured I might as well share it with you ;)



Here are the lyrics in English:

Chorus:
We are the children, the children of Rock 'n' Roll! All of you were just like us!
Dancing and feeling, life is wonderful, we want that as much as you.

The fever started over thirty years ago. Bill Haley was our very first superstar.
We went completely crazy when Elvis and Chuck Berry sang.
- How your children had to turn out was crystal clear.

Chorus

When Paul McCartney sang, we all started to dream. The Rolling Stones were good for those long, hot nights. The girls were in love with John, George and Ringo Starr.
- Rock 'n' Roll lives on, 'cos it's in our blood!

Chorus

We've had you figured out long ago. You used to be too loud once too.
You started with a sudden burst, and kicked everything to the wall.

Chorus

Only two weeks until Christmas! But it's a bit weird. Because I'm in England, I hardly get to hear all those childhood melodies that to me mean: "Christmas time!"




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Songs by Rolf Zuckowski, especially those on the Dezembertraeume and Winterkinder albums were part of our childhood Christmas ritual. In der Weihnachtsbaeckerei would play when we were baking cookies. Even today, when my mum and sister make cookies, they still listen to those songs. We'd put Rolf Zuckowski on while decorating our Christmas tree to get in the spirit. And I miss it. There's no music anywhere, there isn't that smell of freshly baked cookies in the air or the smells of apples, cinnamon, trees, oranges, Gluehwein or anything else I usually associate with Christmas.

The clocks have turned back, the orange leaves have almost all fallen to the ground already and are making the pavements treacherously slippery... autumn is well and truly upon us!

I can't help it, I'm a summer child. I don't like it being dark at 5pm, needing the heating on just to keep warm and most winter coats are not the most fashionable either.

So I had a little scoop around on Youtube, and I found one of my favourite childhood songs. It is called "Wir wollen Sonne" (We want Sun) by Rolf Zuckowski (everybody, and I mean everybody born after 1975 grew up with songs by Rolf Zuckowski und seine Freunde). His "friends" are local kids singing the songs with him, and if I'd lived anywhere near Hamburg when I was growing up, I would have loved to sing with him! I still know all the lyrics by heart!

As you might be able to tell by the people in the video, this song was recorded in the early 90s. And it played all day on the car's radio when my family was en route to our (summer) holiday destinations! On one of our 3-week holidays on the island of Wangerooge, it rained on all but four days - and I kept playing this song over and over, hoping that the weather would get better if I just played the song long enough (I want to add that I was roughly 6 years old or younger at that time!)

So all you Germans: relive your Rolf Zuckowski - memories! Everyone else - sit back, relax, and think of summer! It's only about 8 months away!!!