A rock star so finally at the age of 62. 00 its time for music sexy but this time too much at sing has created a story for his audience one that like a spaceship transports them into an unknown world. Shattering worked on his taxi collective project with several renowned musicians his great idol is david bowie and shifting public personas have impressed and influenced the art. And are joined by the man who scared the living daylights out of the x. Rays are doing. Well thank you successful all over the world is the north so has it really been a lifelong dream actually to do music i mean would you rather have a hit. Album than a best seller no i 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 must have been 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 i remember shes on your website where she is exactly exactly and through all the love over role and 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 and i started to play guitar synths on make music ok now i have to say i thought famous author indulging themselves too but i realized listening thin time album this is no selfindulgence this is a serious project and indeed i noticed it says written by and the range by frank said but its true so you know when the violins come in you was that all in your head was not a process in the studio which learning by listening and learning by doing so what did we do when we were young the had all these bands when i went to school and afterwards we tried to stalins 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 concerto classical to just have a look at when what what are the violence as do what are the other musicians doing and so on its just. Off to do it you do even more actually mean theres a reference to star trek in texas. You know design is 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. For youre a painter and then its just a question in which youre really good and which youre not good but the understanding of creativity to me. Is a whole so icons do anything else or are being created for lets just head right now a little bit more of taxi glassy. Dont. You. See. Now i was quick mention in the lyrics of Richard Branson yes. Would you actually like to go into space i would yeah i would go. For the flying oh yeah so im waiting for the space elevator because another plate of elevators heard of it know that its going to be a very big its a rope which takes you up to thirtys thick south and kilometers height that its like an elevator and you go up it sounds like Science Fiction actually. It is writing is a solitary occupation yes music is a collaboration is completely the opposite did you have any not only not im 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 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. My head but thats not the same so what happens. When i read books that have to do with language. I have to do 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 they came up by chop and 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 on the musicians are you all so much for your appearing on g. W. In about a months time on the 30th of november you most probably dont know the date but you actually did appear in a Program Night groove hold in english not. Come together and jam now what was that experience like working with a lawyer told we we called to provide consent yeah and yes its called its. Called so much noise or by the way in english well of course that they just asked us they had seen the video of the project so meanwhile i had a band driven down because i couldnt through with the band i have on the album because there are musicians playing like my chorus and the former a keyboard player of david bowie which is a great on or i have tony levin 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 really is sitting in cologne and i can just tell people they could see that on november 30th and off for you know what it was where i thought it was grateful i just want to ask you a couple of things the swarm you know is what youre famous for now i thought it was going to be a lot of people it was going to be filmed a little bird told me just before the program are you going to be a series it is it is it can you tell us. He will have been trying for years to film it as a blockbuster we just couldnt get the money together so much for him 5 years ago i thought 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 told the story in a totally different way more like a chambre play so you can much much more of figure out that the characters 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 why dont make you serious well do it together with creative modest amount of game of thrones friend bolger 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 went will be a bit 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 that we get the scripts but from the scripts roger that at the moment i think we can start to film and spring which would mean 2021 ok. Good luck with the music thank you. Very much. The Frankfurt Book Fair is upon us and every year it features a guest country and its literature this year its norway and the city of bell is a particular literary hobb the countrys greatest playwright henry games and spent formative years at the theater that and theres a continuing literary tradition said to be helped by the long dark scandinavian winters and use of of course to reading and writing and there are other strange attributes to baghran as local writer thomas. Explains. Thomas aspinall writes about every day ordinary experience and about his home city. The music scene is very good literature that scene is very good because it is just feeling of despair and being in close to the tween 7 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 and very arrogant i love that. Theyre going 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 world famous writer karl overcall scott was one of the schools 1st students in 1908 and thomas as was his teacher. These days canals god lives in sweden but the cafe where he used to meet up with other budding writers is still not fashionable hangout a. Poet heading back for organizes regular readings here. Tonight hes presenting an anthology of work by 12 local poets not. Only do we have to do something i mean it rains all the time theres 300. 00 days of rain a year so you have to do something we have to we have to sort of. Thats thats or a solution i guess towards depression. Going crazy and we we we we have to. Be creative to use to sort. Of survive in a country whose people have a pretty good standard of living thanks to the oil thats been flowing from norways offshore oil fields for almost 50 years even future generations will benefit due to wise Government Investment of the profits yet many norwegians are of 2 minds about the exploitation of oil reserves we know that we live from this for so. Few which is bad for the whole globe and this or my my child is living from this. Growing up. Surviving on this money i think a lot of the right. Facts it all mean for that sings music project tuxedo actually on our website did our dot com slash culture about so from a from not. Climate change. Sustainability. Environmental projects. Globalization affairs biodiversity Species Conservation exploitation equality. Human rights displacement polls show the global impact. Local actually. Global 3030 minutes on w. A. S after the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th to w. Im scared that my work thats hard and in the end is a me youre not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. Are you familiar with this. The smugglers would lie and say. Whats your story ready ready. Im a woman i was a women especially in victims of violence. Take part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. Another visitor not the guests you want to become a citizen. In for migrants your platform for reliable information. To contrast go Christmas Market hopping with the dalai lama come and all the time on earth hotel. And ingest. Just tell us which german street is your favorite. Whats the most beautiful place in germany. What would you like to explore most mr churchill d. W. 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