When I was fifteen,
sixteen when I really started to play the guitar,
I definitely wanted to become a musician
It was almost impossible because it was,
the dream was so big
that I didn't see any chance
because I was living in a little town,
was studying and
when I finally broke away from school
and became a musician I thought "well,
now I may have a little bit of a chance,
" because all I really wanted to do is music
and not only play music but compose music
At that time, in Germany,
in '69-'70, they already had discotheques
So I would take my car,
would go to a discotheque
and sing maybe 30 minutes
I think I had about 7-8 songs
I would partially sleep in the car
because I didn't want to drive home
and that helped me for about almost 2 years to survive
In the beginning,
I wanted to do an album with the sounds of the 50s,
the sounds of th