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Das Boot (song)
"Das Boot" (released in the UK and US as "The Boat") is the title theme to the film and TV series ''Das Boot'', composed and produced by Klaus Doldinger, and released as a single in 1981. In 1991, the song was covered by Alex Christensen and his dance music project U96. This techno version was U96's debut single from the Das Boot (album), album of the same name. On the German Singles Chart, the U96 version of "Das Boot" spent 13 weeks at number one in early 1992. It also became a number-one hit in Austria, Israel, Norway and Switzerland and entered the top 10 in Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden. In the UK, it peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was the subject of many remixes throughout the years. Critical reception Pan-European magazine ''Music & Media'' noted that "with no significant airplay, this techno version of the theme to the movie "Das Boot" is number one for the second consecutive week in Germany. It's like Kraftwerk on acid, or pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Boot (album)
''Das Boot'' (German for "''The Boat''") is the first album by German dance group U96, released in 1992. The track "Das Boot" is a cover version of the title theme of the 1981 German film ''Das Boot'', composed by Klaus Doldinger. The name of the group (U96) is a reference to the film. Track listing 1992 release: Polydor / 513 185-1 # "Das Boot ''Das Boot'' (, English: "The Boat") is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as ..." – 5:14 # "Come 2 Gether" – 3:49 # "Der Kommandant" – 3:12 # "Art of U96" – 4:30 # " I Wanna Be a Kennedy" – 5:31 # "Ambient Underworld" – 3:51 # "Sporty Animal-Loving Extrovert" – 3:00 # "Sonar Sequences" – 6:00 # "Bonus Track, Das Boot (Klassik Version) – 1:59 1992 release: Polydor / 513 185-2 # "Das Boot" – 5:14 # "Come 2 Gether" – 3:49 # "Der Kommandant" – 3:1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Boot (video Game)
''Das Boot: German U-boat Simulation'' is a submarine simulator game designed by Paul Butler & Rick Banks and published in 1990 for Amiga and MS-DOS systems by Three-Sixty Pacific. It was inspired by the 1973 novel of the same name and its film adaptation. The player takes command of a German Type VII U-boat and plays missions against the Allies which involve combat against aircraft, anti-submarine warships, and other submarines. The game was touted to feature 256 VGA Color, 3D Views, and historical realism. Release The MS-DOS version was released on 3.5" floppy disks and came packaged with a copy of the novel of the same name. Reception ''Computer Gaming World'' in 1991 panned the game as a serious submarine simulator, noting several issues such a frustrating user interface, unrealistic mechanics, and limited information presented to the player compared to other games of the same genre. The magazine did, however, praise the game as an arcade-shoot-'em-up but warned fans of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Boot (TV Series)
''Das Boot'' is a German television series produced by Bavaria Fiction for Sky One and a sequel to ''Das Boot'' (1981). Based on Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 book of the same name with additions from his 1995 sequel, ''Die Festung'', the series continues the anti-war narrative at sea in the Battle of the Atlantic on board various U-boats, and on land, in France and other locations in Europe associated with the resistance to German occupation during World War II, as well as America. Plot The series picks up in late 1942, nine months after the events of 1941. In season one, the narrative is split into two strands: one at sea, on board ', and the other, on land, in La Rochelle, France, with the French resistance. The sea-land dual storyline continues in subsequent seasons, providing multiple points of view towards World War II. The second season takes place in 1943, following captain von Reinhartz of ''U-822'' as he attempts to defect to America, while deposed captain Hoffman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Lothar-Günther Buchheim () (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007) was a German author, painter, and wartime journalist under the Nazi regime. In World War II he served as a war correspondent aboard ships and U-boats. He is best known for his 1973 antiwar novel ''Das Boot'' (''The Boat''), based on his experiences during the war, which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film of the same name. His artworks, collected in a gallery on the banks of the Starnberger See, range from heavily decorated cars to a variety of mannequins seated or standing as if themselves visitors to the gallery, thus challenging the division between visitor and art work. Early life Buchheim was born in Weimar, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (present-day Thuringia), the second son of artist Charlotte Buchheim. She was unmarried, and he was raised by his mother and her parents. They lived in Weimar until 1924, then Rochlitz until 1932, and fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Boot (novel)
''Das Boot'' (, English: (''The Boat'') is the title of a 603-page 1973 German novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007), which deals with the author's personal experiences recorded as a war correspondent on U-boat submarines. Buchheim recorded his time on submarine ''U-96'' and submarine ''U-309'' during World War II. The Buchheim historical drama book was published in 1973 by Piper Verlag, the book has sold millions of copies and was translated into 18 languages. The novel portrayed the harsh and difficult submarine warfare life on a German submarine. L.-G. Buchheim: Der Film Das Boot Ein Journal. Goldmann Verlag, München 1981.Lothar-Ggünther Buchheim's Das Bboot: Memory and the Nazi Past by Dean Jon Guarnaschelli, St. John's University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M&G Records
M&G Records was a record label founded by Michael Levy after he sold his previous label Magnet Records in 1988 to WEA for an estimated £10 million. History After Magnet was sold and was then merged into Eastwest Records in the UK, Levy set up M&G Records with backing from Polygram. The name "M&G Records" was derived from the initials of both Levy's first name and that of his wife Gilda. M&G was sold in October 1997 for an undisclosed sum and folded into the main Polydor Records label. Its most successful act was "Sunshine on a Rainy Day" singer Zoe. Other acts included Little Axe, Jai, Raw Stylus Raw Stylus was a London-based dance music outfit whose core members were Donna Gardier, Jules Brookes and Ron Aslan. In 1995, they released the single, "Believe in Me", which reached number 1 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. It was a minor ..., and "Fair Blows the Wind for France" band Pele. References British record labels Record labels disestablished in 1997< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MegaCharts
Dutch Charts, GfK Dutch Charts, MegaCharts is a chart company responsible for producing a number of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Dutch Charts are also part of GfK Benelux Marketing Services. The Mega Charts ;Singles and Tracks *Single Top 100 *Single Tip ;Albums * Album Top 100 *Compilation Top 30 *Combi Album Top 100 *Backcatalogue Top 50 ;DVDs and others *Dance Top 30 *Midprice Top 50 *Music DVD Top 30 *Film DVD Top 30 *Game Top 10 References External links * Music organisations based in the Netherlands {{music-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Dance Singles Chart
The UK Dance Singles Chart and the UK Dance Albums Chart are music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the dance music genre (e.g. house, trance, drum and bass, garage, synthpop) in record stores and digital downloads. The chart can be viewed on the BBC Radio 1's and Official Charts Company's website. The archive on the Official Charts Company website goes back to 3 July 1994, the beginning of the first charting week. The dates listed in the menus below represent the Saturday after the Sunday the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Broadcasting Authority
The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA; ) was Israel's public broadcaster from 1948 to 2017. History The Israel Broadcasting Authority was an outgrowth of the radio station ''Kol Yisrael'', which made its first broadcast as an independent station on 14 March 1948. The name of the organization operating ''Kol Yisrael'' was changed to ''Israel Broadcasting Service'' in 1951. The law creating the ''Israel Broadcasting Authority'' was passed by the Knesset on 6 June 1965. Television broadcasts commenced on 2 May 1968, with color television following on 23 February 1983, although occasional color transmissions, of such events as the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 and the visit of the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1977, had been made earlier. IBA operated two television channels and eight radio stations. In 1990, the Israeli parliament passed a law that resulted in the creation of the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority, whose function was to enable and regulate commercial tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suomen Virallinen Lista
The Official Finnish Charts ( fi, Suomen virallinen lista; sv, Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland compiled and published by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. The name ''Suomen virallinen lista/Finlands officiella lista'' (lit. "the Official Finnish Chart"), which is singular in both Finnish and Swedish, is used generically to refer to both the albums and the singles chart, and the context (albums or songs) reveals which chart is meant. History The first charts were published in 1951. In January 1991, the Yle radio station Radiomafia started to compile the first weekly chart in Finland called ''Radiomafian lista'', which was broadcast on the radio every Sunday. Prior to that, all singles and album charts in Finland had been either monthly or biweekly published sales charts. ''Radiomafian lista'' became the official Finnish charts in January 1994 when they began a partnership with Suomen Ääni- ja kuvatallennetuottajat (ÄKT) (now known as Musiik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFPI Denmark
IFPI Danmark is the Danish branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Denmark. Certification Gold and platinum awards were first awarded in Denmark in the early 1990s. The sales requirements are the same for domestic and international repertoire. Note that Danish certification system for music products are awarded based on shipments. Albums Sales can include digital downloads and also streams at a ratio of 1:1000 Singles Sales can include digital downloads and also streams at a ratio of 1:100 Streaming only DVDs Video-single DVDs Full-length DVDs Singles chart See: ''Hitlisten Hitlisten, also known as Tracklisten, is a Danish top 40 record chart that is updated every Thursday midnight on the website hitlisten.nu. The weekly Danish singles chart Track Top-40 combines the 40 best-selling tracks from legal music downloads ...'' References External linksO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
