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Marius Müller-Westernhagen in February 2010
Marius Müller-Westernhagen (born December 6, 1948 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German actor and musician.
Possibly best known for the maudlin hit "Johnny Walker", Marius Müller Westernhagen has been a feature in German rock music since the mid seventies. Marius is known for his energetic public concerts, and his fans know his anthem-like songs by heart.
While keeping away from the merely fashionable, Marius has nevertheless managed to reinvent himself every few years, and is popular with multiple generations of Germans. Because of his singing almost exclusively in German in a country where pop and rock are primarily performed in English, Westernhagen originally seemed destined for obscurity, but has managed to use this to his advantage, defining himself as a durable alternative to the perceivedly manufactured English-language hits of America and the UK.
Westernhagen remains little known outside the German-speaking countries.
Müller-Westernhagen has also acted in films and in radio.
Discography
- 1975: Das erste Mal
- 1976: Bittersüß
- 1977: Ganz allein krieg ich's nicht hin
- 1978: Mit Pfefferminz bin ich dein Prinz
- 1980: Sekt oder Selters
- 1981: Stinker
- 1982: Das Herz eines Boxers
- 1983: Geiler is' schon
- 1984: Die Sonne so rot
- 1985: Laß uns leben – 13 Balladen
- 1986: Lausige Zeiten
- 1987: Westernhagen
- 1989: Halleluja
- 1990: Live
- 1992: Jaja
- 1994: Affentheater
- 1996: Keine Zeit (Soundtrack zum Film Keine Zeit)
- 1998: Radio Maria
- 2000: So weit ... – Best of
- 2002: In den Wahnsinn
- 2005: Nahaufnahme
- 2009: Williamsburg
- 2011: Hottentottenmusik (Live)
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