A rock star so finally at the age of 62. 00 its time for music sexy but this time to punctuate sing has created a story for his audience one that like a spaceship transports them into an unknown world. Shattering worked on his tax equal access project with several renowned musicians his great idol is david bowie and shifting public personas have impressed and influenced the art. And im joined by the man who scared the living daylights out of me x. Rays would be. Welcome thank you its really successful all over the world as the north are so has it really been a lifelong dream actually to do music i mean would you rather have a. The bestseller no wouldnt really compare because im a very lucky guy to be so successful with my books but actually i started as a musician you know at the age of 14. 15 i started to play the guitar and the very reason was because i had a poster in my bedroom showing suzi quatro. You know remember shes on your website where she is oh exactly exactly and through all the other overall i thought about how to meet her in order to enrich in her private life so that was the reason i thought they have to do that and i love also you have to become a rock star yourself started to play guitar synths on make music ok now i have to say i thought famous author indulging themselves too but i realized this think the entire album this is no selfindulgence this is a serious project and indeed i noticed it says written by and a range by frank said but its true you know when the violins come in you was that all in your head or was that a process in the studio which learning by listening and learning by doing so what did we do when we were young and i had all these bands when i went to school and afterwards we tried to psalms like our big heroes so what we did was listening to the records again and again and again to find out how they did it or i went into a concert of the classical charts or to just have a look at when what what are the violence. What are the other musicians doing and so on its just think of to do it you do even more actually i mean theres a reference to star trek in texaco actually the design is done by you all the illustrations if youre as an illustrator really been doing everything yes yes but its my understanding of creativity is that if youre really creative youre potentially everything your rights are you know. Acts for your painter and then its just a question and what youre really good and which you are not good at the understanding of creativity to me. Is a whole so icons do anything else or are being creative lets just head right now a little bit more of taxi glassy. Dont. You. Know i was quick mention in the lyrics of Richard Branson yes. Would you actually like to go into space i would yeah i would they are. Afraid of flying oh yeah so im waiting for the space elevator because another plate of elevators you have heard of it know that its going to be a very big its a rope which takes you up to thirtys thinks 1000 kilometers height that its like an elevator and you go up it sounds like Science Fiction or. It is writing is a solitary occupation yes music is a collaboration is completely the opposite did you have any not only not in the beginning. Honestly. Im a guy who loves to be among people a love to meet people i love to to to to be in the public and sit in the cafe a on a restaurant. And so far this is the only thing i dont like about writing is that for such a long time i sit there in the room of course i meet a lot of people in. Ahead but thats not the same so what happened is when i read books that i have to do with language. I have to deal with construction story constructions and then every 3 or 4 hours i need to break and do something totally difference for example playing guitar and this is how i wrote the songs so they came up by chance then i went down in the cellar room i have a studio on my solo. Started to play its played everything. Guitar bass keyboards sang my best friends drummer so we had a song and then i added musicians to musicians are you all so much youre appearing on d w in about a months time on the 30th of november for you dont know the date but you actually did appear in our Program Night groups hold in english. Come together and jam now what was that experience like working with a lawyer told me to be called a quad concept i think yeah its called its. Called so much nicer by the way in english well of course that they just all they had seen the video of the project and so meanwhile i had a band which are bound because i couldnt through with the bad i have on the album because the musicians playing like my chorus and the former a keyboard player of david bowie which is are great on are and i have tony livin on the bass guitar but hes in boston the other one is in los angeles so you know you were the only one i was the only one of the originally is sitting in cologne and i can just tell people they could see the on nov 30th and offer. It well grateful i just want to walk through a couple of things the swarm was you know what youre famous for now i thought it was going to be a lot of people thought was going to be filmed a little bird told me just before the program you know whos going to be a series it is it is it can you tell whos that. Lol well ive been trying for years to film it as a blockbuster we just couldnt get the money together so yes i mean 5 years ago i thought well why not make a serious because a serious something totally different 1st of all its the age of serious at the moment. In a serious you can tell the story in a totally different way more like a play so you can much much more figure out what that the character is and what they do and you do not need so many special effects and that was the idea for 5 years ive been preaching go to everybody else why dont make a serious now well do it together with creative most amount of game of thrones from dodger and were sitting together. Yeah this is very exciting do you have a date when it might be out yes yes do you know the date when it when well be of i got you wrong no i dont know but when were lucky at the moment we are working on the outlines which means that for each episode you need 10 to 15 pages which is what is all about and then we get the scripts but from the scripts roger that at the moment i think we can start to film in spring which would mean 2021 ok. Good luck with the music thank you very. Much. The frankfurt book is upon us and every year it features the country and its literature this year its norway and the city of baghdad is a particular literary hub the countrys greatest playwright henry games and spent formative years a 5th of that and theres a continuing literary tradition said to be helped by the long dark scandinavian winters can juice of course reading and writing and there are other strange attributes to bagman as local rites of thomas. Explains. Thomas aspinall writes about every day ordinary experience and about his. Home city. The music scene is very good literature the scene is very good because of this just feeling of despair and being close to the tween southern mountains and i like i really like the people. And the mentality i like the language the way they speak very very cruel and harsh and very very very annoying and very insulting very arrogant i love that. Bag and is proud of its arts and culture scene which includes the Writers Academy where Young Authors from across the country come to hone their craft and world famous writer karl overcook now scott was one of the schools 1st students in 1908 and thomas as was his teacher. These days god lives in sweet the cafe where he used to meet up with other budding writers is still a fashionable hangout. Poet heading back from organizes regular readings here. Tonight hes presenting an anthology of work by 12 local poets. 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Floor i come from people are known for being tough but fair new york can be a lot of people tell it like it it take all of the concrete jungle the melting pot the city that never sleeps its this energy that makes it feel like home but amid the hustle its important to listen and Pay Attention because its not just the loudest voices who need to be her we all have a story this is how i see it is my job as a journalist to go beyond the obvious now im based in europe and my work takes me around the world but my it seems for me in this state to tell the important stories behind the headlines is what is the heart of the story why does it matter who lived in. A focus if you want. To cut through the noise to get to the truth. And i wanted to double. This is g. W. News live from broadway in turkey ignores u. S. Sanctions and press ahead with 37 of its offensive to Northern Syria but russia says Syrian Government troops now control the key town of mount big so as they seek to contain the turkish assault also on the program a deal to stop the u. K. Crushing. Me in reach seems to. Talk stronger