Alphaville - Big In Japan (Symphonic Version 2022) [official video]

Out now! "BIG IN JAPAN"
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Written by
Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens

Recorded with Filmorchester Babelsberg

Produced by
Documentary Gigolos: Jürgen Schindler
Producer/Director: Jürgen Schindler
Editor: Anna Rogers
Director of Photographie: Ole Jürgens
Camera: Fabian Pietsch
Camera Assistant: Enno Jürgens
Chief Lightning Technician: Christian Mansmann
Light Desk Operator: Falk Buchroeder
Video Technician: Stephan Hellwig
Make-up Artist: Stéphanie Bach
Produced at Cinegate Studios STUDIO 2

Social Media/administration/consulting:
Lily Becker, Claudia Pernold

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The first single release from the new Alphaville album ‘Eternally Yours’, which Marian Gold has recorded with arrangers Max Knoth and Christian Lohr and the Babelsberg Film Orchestra, is available now!

The orchestral version of ‘Big in Japan’ reaches us forty years almost to the day since the band was formed, and it has such a natural, warm, even familiar ensemble sound that listening to it, you’re surprised there have never been symphonic arrangements of Alphaville songs before.

Marian Gold: “Arranging ‘Big in Japan’ has brought out the essence of it more clearly; the song’s been stripped clean, released, set free. Its true nature has come to light. The 23 songs on ‘Eternally Yours’ – which includes ‘Big in Japan’ of course – really do sound to me as if this was actually the first Alphaville album – except that forty years ago, it wasn’t released. After all, we didn’t have access to an orchestra in those days, we ‘only’ had synthesizers and rhythm machines.”

The song, written in a demo version back in the Seventies, tells the fictional story of a couple who try in vain to break free from heroin on the drug scene at Bahnhof Zoo in Berlin. Everything would have been possible, if only they were ‘Big in Japan’.

When it came out in 1984, ‘Big in Japan’ was not only Alphaville’s first No. 1 hit – the song headed the Media Control charts for a total of 23 weeks, making it the year’s mosts successful single in Germany. It’s scored triple gold to date.
(Max Dax)


Alphaville – the new album with the title 'Eternally Yours' coming soon! Recorded with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Alphaville present their greatest hits and new songs in a symphonic sound experience never heard before. Don't miss any updates on the album and get access to special subscriber-only content in the band's new newsletter: https://www.alphaville.info/newsletter.html


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