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City Am Fenster 2014///+City (band)City is a German music group . The band was founded in 1972 in East Berlin and achieved the breakthrough with their title Am Fenster. Initially they called themselves City Rock Band or City Band Berlin.History
City was founded in 1972 by Fritz Puppel (guitar) and Klaus Selmke (drums) in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg as City Band Berlin. They expanded the band to include

Ingo Döring (bass),
Frank Pfeiffer (vocals) and
Andreas Pieper (flute).
In 1974, the band was reshuffled, as Puppel, who taught as a lecturer at the Friedrichshain Music School, was dissatisfied with the band's line-up.

In 1974 Georgi Gogov (later NO 55), who also played the violin in some songs, replaced Döring; Emil Bogdanow came for Pfeiffer.
In 1975, Toni Krahl took over as singer Bogdanov.
The band's first single was released by the GDR record label Amiga in 1975. They made their breakthrough in the music scene in 1977 with the title Am Fenster. The LP of the same name was released in 1978. In the Federal Republic of Germany and Greece they received Golden Recordsfor this . City was one of the few music groups in the GDR that were also allowed to perform in the Federal Republic of Germany.

There was a further reshuffle of the band:

Rüdiger Barton came from Magdeburg as keyboardist (later went to Silly)
Gisbert Piatkowski (formerly Magdeburg, later to NO 55, Modern Soul Band) joined as guitarist.
This line-up featured the English-language LP Dreamer, produced by Jack Rieley of the Beach Boys. The album was released abroad as Dreamland. It was the first GDR record designed for the English-language market. [5] When internal tensions arose in the band in 1981, Gogow and Piatkowski left the band and founded NO 55. Gogow's post was no longer filled because it was considered that no equivalent replacement could be found. During this time, the slogan arose: Without bass and without hair with City through the 80s,which also alluded to the low hair growth of some City members. In some songs a bass line and other effects (also string sounds) were recorded with the keyboard.

Manfred Hennig (formerly Babylon, Pond und Elefant) joined Barton in 1982, who moved to Silly. After this reshuffle, Puppel took over the guitar again. With the lyrics of their 1987 LP Casablanca they broke some taboos, among others in the ambiguous titles e.g. Susann and Wall on Wall. In September 1989, the city musicians were among the initiators of the resolution of rock musicians and songwriters for more freedoms in the GDR in the run-up to the turn of the century.

After the reunification, Puppel and Krahl founded the record label K & P Musik, as the new freedom heralded the demise of the former Eastern bands. This label produced among others André Herzberg (Pankow), Karat and Keimzeit.

Gogow has been a member of the band since 1992. Since then he has been playing violin and bass again. Hennig returned to City in 1995 after a break. From 1998 City performed with Silly for a time, with Krahl taking over the vocal part of Tamara Danz.

In May 2020, drummer Klaus Selmke died at the age of 70 after a long illness.Hits
City's greatest success is the song Am Fenster, which has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide to date. Their first West-LP City (in the GDR: Am Fenster) with a 17-minute long version of this song brought it to half a million copies sold so far. It is the greatest success of an East German song in western Germany to date. Even today, it appears in most classic playlists and is considered a dance surface filler. The lyrics of this song are based on a poem by Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß, but a verse by Krahl was sung twice by mistake. The title was originally for album production due to its length and the violin, it did not belong to rock music, was not planned by Amiga and was not desired. Since Amiga City always provided four hours for studio productions and there was still time left after a recording, Gogow asked Helmar Federowskito record one more of her pieces. On the condition that it should only be used for personal use and not made public, Am Fenster was recorded live. On the same day, Gogow went to the editor of the Beatkiste and asked him to play the title on the radio. After that, the record stores were stormed for a single that didn't exist. Thus City managed to get Amiga to use the recording to squeeze a single from it.

The song Casablanca was composedby Henry Hübchen .///++///+ I have no words, as I do not own the copyright for this wonderful music album,DVD..,if society and administration consider that I am a copyright violator I will delete it and remove it, from my channel, my deep respect and great thanks!!!