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 VOCALS / LYRICS
IN MARIANS YOUNG AGE HE WAS A TALENT SINGER IN THE LOCAL CHURCH CHOIR. MUSIC WAS EARLY AN IMPORTANT PART OF HIS LIFE. HE BECAME EARLY A BELIVER OF GOD AND DISLIKES POLITICS.
IN THE EARLY TIME OF HIS CAREER HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BAND "CHINCHILLA GREEN" TOGETHER WITH BERNHARD LLOYD, AND MEANWHILE IN 1978 HE WROTE THE SONG "BIG IN JAPAN" (WICH SHOULD BE RELEASED SIX YEARS LATER!). THEN HE LEFT CHINCHILLA GREEN IN 1981 AND MOVED TO MÜNSTER AND STARTED SOME MUSICPROJECTS...
AFTER A WHILE HE GET CALL FROM BERNHARD LLOYD ABOUT BE A SINGER OF BERNHARDS AND FRANK MERTENS MELODIES. MARIAN TRAVEL TO ENGER AND LISTEN TO THEIR WORK AND THEN HE PUT LYRICS ON IT AND THEN ALPHAVILLE WAS BORN.
MARIAN TOOK HIS ARTISTNAME "GOLD" FROM THE BOOK "1984" BY GEORGE ORWELL. THE CENTRAL FIGURE IS CALLED GOLDSTEIN ,IN GERMAN (PROBABLY GOLDSTONE IN ENGLISH?), AND THE NAME MARIAN IS FROM HIS GRANDFATHER.
MARIAN HAVE ALWAYS LOVE ANIMALS, ESPECIALLY DOGS AND DOLPHINS. HE LOVES TO TRAVEL AND WATCH DIFFERENT CULTURES AND PLACES.
FROM 1995 HAS MARIAN CONSTANTLY BEEN "ON TOUR" WITH "ALPHAVILLE LIVE BAND". HE LOVES THE STAGE IN COMPARESION TO BERNHARD. THE PEACE ON EARTH TOUR 1995-1998, THE DREAMSCAPES TOUR 1999, STARK NAKED TOUR 2000, UNPLUGGED TOUR 2001 AND THE MICARCE HEALING TOUR 2002.
MEANWHILE BERNHARD LLOYD WORK WITH HIS "ATLANTIC POPES" PROJECT IN 2001, MARIAN WRITE SONG TOGETHER WITH KLAUS SCHULZE, AND EFFJORT KRÜGER AND TWO OTHER TITANS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC ON THE ALLSTAR PROJECT CALLED "SPUTNIK ROADHOUSE".
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HE BECAME NATURALLY THE FRONTFIGURE OF ALPHAVILLE AND IS THE ONLY ALPHAVILLIAN WHO REALLY LIKE TO PLAY LIVE.
AFTER "THE BREATHTAKING BLUE" ALBUM 1989 HE STARTED TO WORK ON A SERIOUS SOLOCAREER WITH THE ALBUM "SO LONG CELESTE" WICH WERE RELEASED IN 1992. THEN, IN 1994, IT WAS TIME TO CONCENTRATE ON ALPHAVILLE AGAIN AND THE UPCOMING "PROSTITUTE" ALBUM... BEFORE HIS SECOND SOLOALBUM "UNITED" WAS AVIABLE IN 1996.