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Fools Garden

March 05, 2023

Fools Garden (until 2003 known as Fool's Garden) is a German band formed in 1991 in the city of Pforzheim.[1] The founders of the group and the only permanent members are vocalist Peter Freudenthaler and guitarist Volker Hinkel.[2] In 1993, bassist Thomas Mangold, keyboardist Roland Röhl and drummer Ralf Wochele were invited to join Fool's Garden for recording of the first studio album Once in a Blue Moon.

Fools Garden
At Blacksheep Festival 2016
Background information
Also known asFool's Garden (1991–2003)
OriginPforzheim, Germany
Genres
Years active1991–present
Labels
MembersPeter Freudenthaler
Volker Hinkel
Dirk Blümlein
Gabriel Holz
Thorsten Kiefer
Jan Hees
Past membersThomas Mangold
Roland Röhl
Ralf Wochele
Claus Müller
Websitefoolsgarden.de

The band became famous worldwide in 1995 owing to the release of their second studio album Dish of the Day and, in particular, the song "Lemon Tree", which entered numerous music charts around the world and topped five of them. However, Fool's Garden was never able to repeat the success of their only hit.[3] A series of failures to replicate the commercial success of Dish of the Day in 1997, 2000 and 2003 resulted in tension and disagreement amongst the band's members, and dramatically discredited its reputation in the eyes of record label executives.[4][5] Consequently, Mangold, Röhl, and Wochele left Fool's Garden in 2003, but a year later new musicians joined the band. To signify the change, it was decided to remove the apostrophe from the band's name on their next album, Ready for the Real Life. Due to the problems caused by the lack of a label ready to work with Fools Garden, the members of the band founded their own company Lemonade Music in 2004.[5]

Fools Garden's musical style has been characterized as pop rock, soft rock, Britpop and some other genres. Critics have noted the influence of such artists as The Beatles, Sting, and The Who.[6] The group may be classified as a one-hit wonder.

Since its formation in 1991, the band has released 9 studio albums, received 12 music awards, and played over a thousand live performances. The bands's total sales have exceeded 6 million copies.[7] Up to the present, Fools Garden continues concert activity and gives performances all over the world.[8][9][10] The band performs both in complete line-up and as a duo (Hinkel/Freudenthaler) or a trio (Hinkel/Freudenthaler/Holz).[10][11]

Background

 
 
Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel are the founding members and the only members of the original lineup still active.

In 1987, Volker Hinkel and Claus-Dieter Wissler founded the music project called Magazine.[12] Together they recorded two songs: "W. A. R." (this song was dedicated to the Gulf War) and "A Time of Life". Later in 1991, Hinkel entered the University of Stuttgart, where he became acquainted with Peter Freudenthaler, who studied multimedia technology.[13] Prior to starting his studies at the university, Peter Freudenthaler had already participated in several musical groups and worked as a piano tuner.[14][15] Having learned that Freudenthaler also composed music, Hinkel asked him for recordings of his songs ("Sandy" and "Tell Me Who I Am"), and later invited him to Magazine.[16][17] Hinkel reworked Freudenthaler's arrangement of "Lena", which was the first work of the Hinkel/Freudenthaler duo.[12]

Despite being Germans, the musicians made the decision to write songs in English, as they felt that English was more suitable to their music and the performers who inspired them sang in English as well.[18][19]

We discovered that we both have a great passion for music and that we have lived only three kilometers apart geographically since childhood. We started to write songs together and quickly realized that it worked really well. So it really had to be some kind of fateful encounter, because the interaction with no one else worked that well before.

—Peter Freudenthaler on acquaintance with Volker Hinkel.[20]

Together they rearranged their compositions and recorded them on a compact cassette.[16] Via Steffen Koch (who became the band's producer for the next few years), this cassette got to Gunter Koch. He listened to Magazine's songs, appreciated them and agreed to collaborate with the band on following recordings.[16] Being inspired by the performance of Oasis, Blur and The Beatles, the musicians chose to play Britpop,[21] despite the fact that it was extremely difficult to achieve any commercial success playing such music, since dance music and techno were especially popular in Germany in those years.[6]

Peter Freudenthaler on band's name

That came out of a beer mood. We sat together in a local pub that evening, ate, drank beer and thought about how to call our new album. "Garden" came into our minds and at some point "Fool's Garden" echoed through the room. Then the name for the album was born. When it came time to start the band, we still liked the name so much that we said we'd just call the whole band "Fool's Garden".

—Interview for Jesus.de.[22]

After a while, Hinkel and Freudenthaler discovered a newspaper advertisement, in which it was proposed to record an album for 130 DM.[16] This is how Magazine was recorded.[16] In addition to the songs recorded on the promo cassette, the album included two songs written by Hinkel with Claus Wissler, as well as a cover version of the song "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles. This limited edition album was the precursor for the promo album Fool's Garden - Man in a Cage (simply abbreviated as Fool's Garden) released in 1991. They also decided to include a cover version of the song "Cry Baby Cry", which was sung by Volker Hinkel, as well as the songs "Scared" and "No Flowers By Request", which Hinkel recorded with Claus Wissler.[12] In order to perform the recorded material live, it was decided to invite bassist Thomas Mangold, keyboardist Roland Röhl and drummer Ralf Wochele, and rename the band to Fool's Garden.[19] According to Peter Freudenthaler, the name "Fool's Garden" was the most consistent with the band's philosophy and suited the description of its members.[23]

The newly formed band played their first gig in 1991 — Fool's Garden performed as the opening act for Sidney Youngblood in Böblingen.[24]

History

Early career and first successes (1991–1994)

The eponymous promo-album, which was dedicated to John Winston Lennon, got no recognition.[5] There were only five copies ever produced.[13] The band's first singles "Careless Games / Tell Me Who I Am" and "Once in a Blue Moon / Spirit '91" were released in 1992.[13] Due to the lack of the opportunity to rehearse and record songs in a professional studio, the members of the young band were forced to meet several times a week in the living room of Volker Hinkel's parental home.[17] In the same year, Fool's Garden first appeared on radio, television (TV channels SWR 3 in Stuttgart and Tele 5 in Munich) and began performing their first concerts in Pforzheim, which made them famous in their region.[13][5]

In 1993, the band decided to re-record the songs from the promo CD and release the first full-length studio album Once in a Blue Moon.[25] It was originally released by the group independently on the Town Music label with a circulation of one thousand copies.[13][26] The CDs were sold mainly at concerts, sent to local radio and TV stations, and were also given away for free.[13] To promote the new material, Fool's Garden immediately embarked on an extended concert tour throughout Baden-Württemberg and adjoining Bavaria.[5][19] As Peter Freudenthaler recalled, at that time the band mainly performed in small municipal halls in front of a small audience.[19] According to him, only 20 people came to the first Fool's Garden concert in Munich.[19] It is also worth noting that on Fool's Garden and Once in a Blue Moon, the lead vocals were equally divided between Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel.

The album Once in a Blue Moon turned out to be a commercial failure, resulting in Town Music label suffering heavy losses and even ending up on the verge of bankruptcy.[26] The company's management was going to cancel the contract with the band, but after a series of negotiations, Steffen Koch managed to convince the head of Town Music to retain the partnership with Fool's Garden until the next studio album was released.[26] Moreover, despite all the efforts of the band and its producer, large companies did not dare to work with Fool's Garden.[27]

 
"Wild Days" (1994)
A sample of "Wild Days", the first single of Fool's Garden to enter charts.
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Fool's Garden achieved their first major success in 1994. The German branch of fashion retailer C&A used "Wild Days", the first single from the band's upcoming studio album for a TV commercial.[5][6] The song "Wild Days" won a competition from over 700 applicants. Also, the single "Wild Days" became the first release of the group to enter the music charts: the song reached #59 in the German chart (where it lasted 13 weeks) and #37 in Austria.[28][29] In the same year, Fool's Garden made their first guest appearances in the German interregional newspaper Sonntag aktuell.[30] Wolle Kriwanek, the author of the article, predicted a major success for Fool's Garden after listening to their songs, which just happened a year later.[30]

Worldwide commercial success: "Lemon Tree" and Dish of the Day (1995–1996)

 
"Lemon Tree" (1995)
A sample of "Lemon Tree", the major success of Fool's Garden that made them popular worldwidely.
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In April 1995, a single with the song "Lemon Tree" was released. It became a real hit and got high positions in many European charts. The atmosphere reminiscent to the one of The Beatles' songs, retro sounding in the style of the 1960s, perfect English pronunciation and melancholic lyrics let the song to gain recognition from millions of listeners around the world.[31][32] Freudenthaler composed it when he was waiting for his girlfriend at home.[33] There were 45 cover versions of the song recorded, and it has also been translated into 40 languages.[3][34] Due to the lack of support from the major record label, Fool's Garden were forced to record, release and promote new releases on the small Town Records label almost independently.[6]

We did all the groundwork ourselves, by presenting "Lemon Tree" to radio stations and local retailers. Regional private stations started playing it, and we had up to 53 plays per week and about 400 inquiries about the group. When SWF3 [the pop channel of state broadcaster Südwestrundfunk] picked it up, things really got going.

—Steffen Koch, the band's producer, interview for Billboard.[6]

Having noticed the success of Fool's Garden, Intercord, which had previously refused to cooperate with the band, signed a contract with them in November 1995.[6][15] Intercord CEO Robert Collisch believed that the biggest benefit to Fool's Garden was that they were a real band, not just a project. The album Dish of the Day was released in December 1995, containing the songs "Lemon Tree" and "Wild Days". According to Intercord's report, Dish of the Day became a bestseller in Europe with over 600,000 copies sold and over 1,100,000 copies worldwide.[35][36] The album entered many charts throughout Europe. Both "Lemon Tree" and Dish of the Day sold best in Austria and Switzerland. Fool's Garden's songs were played on radio stations around the world, from San Diego to Jakarta.[37] The song also enjoyed success in the UK, where it peaked at #61 on the UK Singles Chart, and the remix version also entered the chart, peaking at a higher #26.[38] According to Intercord, the band had great potential to play internationally.[6] Due to Intercord, "Lemon Tree" and Dish of the Day achieved particular success in Southeast Asia: the song received the "Song of the Year" award from Metro Broadcast Corporation Ltd. in Hong Kong, and Taiwanese singer Tarcy Su has recorded covers in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.[39] The album received gold certification in Thailand, platinum certification in Singapore, Taiwan and double platinum one in Malaysia.[39]

Between March and May 1996, Fool's Garden had played about 50 concerts with an approximate audience of 700 people at each concert.[6] In the summer of the same year, the quintet participated in 14 open-air concerts, performing as an opening act for the German pop rock band Pur, however already in the autumn Fool's Garden began touring as headliners.[6] Between the 14th and 16 June 1996, Fool's Garden performed as headliners at the Open Flair music festival with such famous German performers as Marla Glen, Selig and Jazzkantine, and on 5 July, the band performed with Joan Osborne, Suede, Blur and Iggy Pop at the Midtfyns Festival in Ringe, Denmark.[40][41][19] In the same year, Intercord reissued the album Once in a Blue Moon, however, despite the excitement around the band after the success of "Lemon Tree", the album neither entered the charts nor received any certification. Also in 1996, Fool's Garden's music first appeared in German cinema: the song "Wild Days" was included on the soundtracks for the film "Regular Guys" and the TV series "Freunde fürs Leben".[42][43]

Worldwide tour and release of Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing (1997–1999)

Nobody would have anything against a new big hit, but I think, even if we would have it like the "Lemon Tree", it would not be the same anymore. Because this opens so many doors for the very first time in our lives: we'd been the first time on the plane for a concert, we'd been the first time outside Europe, we'd been the first time outside of Germany for a concert, for a radio show, for a TV show - everything was for the first time with that song. Another big hit would not ever bring the same feeling again.

—Peter Freudenthaler, from "25 Years To New World" documentary.[17]

The success of 1995-1996 brought the band a number of awards, including ECHO, Goldene Stimmgabel, Goldene Europa, Bambi and R.SH Gold.[44][45][46]

Following the commercial success of "Lemon Tree" and Dish of the Day, the band embarked on a worldwide concert tour, playing over 100 shows around the world.[14][17][47] The number of listeners at the concerts reached up to 80,000.[48] Fool's Garden have played in Europe outside Germany, North America, South Africa, and Asia, where it has achieved the greatest success.[49][47] Touring in Italy and Spain was also successful.[50] According to Thomas Mangold and Roland Röhl, at that time the members of the band had an income of about 1,500 Deutsche Mark per month.[47] This allowed them to quit their regular jobs and take up professional musical careers.[47]

 
"Probably" (1997)
A sample of "Probably". The backing vocals of Volker Hinkel can be also heard throughout the recording.
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After returning from the world tour, the musicians began working on a new album.[51] Owing to the fact that Fool's Garden members became professional musicians and stopped spending time on regular work, new material was prepared very quickly: the songs were composed just in two months, and the process of recording took only six months - it began in January 1997 and lasted until July.[51] Recording and mixing took place at Maryland and Hinkelstone Studio. The third album, Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing, was released on 8 September 1997. Three months before the official release in order to promote the disc, a single with the song "Why Did She Go?" was released,[52] which managed to stay on the German singles chart for 9 weeks, reaching #76.[53] The song has also been suggested to be used for an automobile advertisement.[52] Another notable song is "Probably", which was recognized as the group's second major success after "Lemon Tree".[21] The single with the song peaked at #86 in the German chart, staying there for 8 weeks.[54] Also "Probably" received serious support from radio stations and in 1997 almost entered the top 50 most played songs in Europe.[55][56] In the same year, "Probably" was featured on the soundtrack for the TV series Kommisar Rex.[57]

Despite Intercord's hopes that the new album will sell out in large numbers on the wave of the popularity of the previous platinum album Dish of the Day,[58] Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing did not repeat the success of its predecessor.[59] It took only #44 in Germany and #50 in Switzerland.[60][61] According to the Russian musical agency Zvuki.Ru, the reason for such failure was "absence of a title hit."[59] In 1998, Fool's Garden performed at the German Cultural Days in Singapore.[62]

Commercial failures and line-up changes (2000-2003)

Three years later, on 5 June 2000, Fool's Garden released their next studio album For Sale, which was produced by James Herter, on the Seven Days Music label.[63][37] The name "For Sale" reflected the situation in the band at that time — after the breakup of the Intercord/EMI label, the band was literally put up for sale.[64][63] The first single "Suzy" stayed on the German singles chart for 8 weeks, reaching #75.[63] After the release of the album, the band arranged a promotional tour in Germany and also organized an autograph session in Munich.[63] On 18 June, Fool's Garden performed in Singapore at the Radio Music Awards.[63] Also on 24 July, the band performed in Ulm at a concert organized annually by the local radio station Radio 7.[65] For Sale was released all over the world: in Europe, South Africa, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.[63] Despite the vast geographic variety of the release and the band's efforts to promote the new material, the album turned out to be a commercial failure, it also did not achieve chart success: For Sale took #84 on the German albums chart, staying with this result for only 1 week.[66] An attempt to release something similar to the biggest hit of the group "Lemon Tree" also failed — for 3 weeks in the German singles chart the song "It Can Happen" could not rise above #86.[67]

 
One of the versions of 25 Miles to Kissimmee album cover. Members of Fool's Garden shortly before the breakup, from left to right: Roland Röhl, Thomas Mangold, Peter Freudenthaler, Volker Hinkel, Ralf Wochele.

In 2001, Fool's Garden signed a contract with another record label Polydor.[16] In September of the same year, the band celebrated their 10th anniversary with a two-day party in Pforzheim, which featured many well-known German bands.[68] The proceeds from this event were donated to charity through the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation.[16] Also in 2001, the band began work on their next studio album. The new CD 25 Miles to Kissimmee was ready to be released in early 2002, but due to delays on the part of Polydor Records, the album was not released until 17 January 2003.[16] Due to another unsuccessful album, tension and disagreements occurred between the musicians.[69] As a result, on 19 April of the same year, rumors appeared in the press that Fool's Garden had disbanded.[16] Bassist Thomas Mangold, keyboardist Roland Röhl and drummer Ralf Wochele left the band. After leaving Fool's Garden, Thomas Mangold and Roland Röhl started an advertising agency and a print shop for production of CD and DVD covers in Merklingen.[16][14] Mangold continued his musical career playing bass with many different bands.[16] Ralf Wochele got a job as a music teacher at a school, and was also accepted into the band called CoverUp, in which he still participates.[16][14]

Actually, the band hadn't split up, we just parted with our former fellow musicians. We were at a point where it wasn't really fun anymore. The basic goal was to be able to do what we enjoyed a lot. When that fun was lost, we said to ourselves that we had to act very quickly and be careful not to let this boat sink, but to get it started again with a new crew.

—Peter Freudenthaler.[70]

Hinkel and Freudenthaler decided to pursue their musical careers as a duo. However, they faced a number of problems in the further promotion of the album 25 Miles to Kissimmee, as due to the breakup of the band Polydor refused to cooperate further with Fool's Garden. Therefore, the remaining members of the band formed their own label Lemonade Music.[71] Soon, guitarist Gabriel Holz, bassist Dirk Blümlein and drummer Claus Müller were invited to the group for live performances. The last two musicians have collaborated with Volker Hinkel since 2002 on his solo project Hinkel, in particular on the album Not a Life-Saving Device.[72] Changes in the line-up were also marked in the name of the band: from that time on, it became known as Fools Garden (without an apostrophe).[5]

New line-up and musical style (2004–2013)

 
 
Bassist Dirk Blümlein and drummer Claus Müller joined Fools Garden after the release of Ready for the Real Life.

Volker Hinkel, Peter Freudenthaler and new musicians recorded the album Ready for the Real Life, which was released in the autumn of 2005.[73] As soon as the work on the album was completed, Blümlein, Holz and Müller were invited to Fools Garden as permanent members. For the purpose of promoting the album, the single "Does Anybody Know? / Welcome Sun" was released in the summer of 2005.[74] Critics noted a change in band's musical style: Fools Garden moved away from Britpop and switched to guitar-based melodic rock.[75] The new musical style allowed the band to enter the airplay of radio stations again and the songs from Ready for the Real Life to become the soundtracks for various films, TV shows and commercials.[16][75] On 3 July 2005, the band played their biggest concert, performing at the festival dedicated to the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad.[5][7][16][3] In total, the concert attracted over 100,000 listeners. Also in 2005, Fools Garden was honored with the Ravensburger Kupferle Award.[76] In 2007 Gabriel Holtz left the band and returned to his native Neukölln.[16]

In 2008–2009, Fools Garden released two new EPs, Napster Session 2008 and Home, as well as a compilation album High Times - The Best of Fools Garden and a live album Best Of Unplugged - Live.[77] The compilation also contained a new song "High Time", which was released as a single. The song reached high positions in the charts of listeners of various radio stations, for example, Hessischer Rundfunk.[77]

 
Fools Garden in 2012

In 2011, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary by performing at a charity concert with the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra.[16] In the same year, Fools Garden began writing material for a new release, which was recorded in the first half of 2012 in England.[78] In July of the same year, the new single "Innocence" was presented to a number of radio stations, and in August it reached number one on the SW3 listeners' chart.[16][79] A video clip was also filmed for the song, which the band members created on their own.[80] The seventh album Who Is Jo King? was released on 14 September. The cover artwork was created by Klaus Voormann, known for designing the cover for The Beatles Revolver in 1966.[81] This explains the noticeable similarity between the two covers.[82][83]

In early 2013, the second single from Who Is Jo King? "Maybe" was released. In the same year, Fools Garden performed at the German Festival at the Brandenburg Gate.[84]

Second line-up change (2014–present)

 
New line-up of Fools Garden; left to right: Jan Hees, Thorsten Kiefer, Gabriel Holz, Peter Freudenthaler, Dirk Blümlein and Volker Hinkel

The band's line-up changed again in 2014–2015. First of all, Gabriel Holz returned to Fools Garden in the autumn of 2014.[17] In early 2015, keyboardist Torsten Kiefer joined the band,[85] whereas in the early summer of the same year, drummer Claus Müller left the group and was replaced by Jan Hees.[86] In 2015, Fools Garden performed cover versions of ten 1990s hit songs by various artists such as Depeche Mode, Annie Lennox, the Backstreet Boys, Bruce Springsteen, No Doubt and Madonna in their usual unique style for the third season of the RTL 90s-themed music show "Formula 1".[87] For ten consecutive weeks, Fools Garden performed each song under the moderation of Peter Illman.[87] It was decided to release these cover versions on an album called Flashback.[88]

At the end of 2016, Fools Garden together with the German jazz singer Karl Frierson recorded a new song "New World", which was released in early 2017. In the same year, the 10-episode documentary "25 Years to New World" was released on the band's official YouTube channel.[17]

In April 2018, Fools Garden released their next album Rise and Fall, which was recorded at the band's own studio in Neuhausen.[89] It was the first time when Gabriel Holz participated in composition of all the songs, along with Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel.[90][17] It's the band's first album since 2000's For Sale to enter the German charts, reaching #97 between 7 and 13 May 2018.[91] Maxazine named the album "the best since Dish of the Day and successor Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing",[92] and Musikreviews.de called Rise and Fall "the best album since 1995."[93] To promote the new material, Fools Garden embarked on an extensive concert tour across Germany.[94] Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel also expressed their desire to do a concert tour in the UK someday.[17]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fools Garden organized the online festival on Instagram called "Garden Festival".[95] It was hold on 1 May 2020, and was also associated with a fundraising campaign organized by the Rotary Club Pforzheim.[95] In the summer of the same year, Peter Freudenthaler, Volker Hinkel and Jan Hees took part in the recording of songs "ABCD" and "La-rissa" of the Italian music project La Crisi Di Luglio.[96] At the moment the band is working on a new album. The first song "Outta Love" recorded in electro-pop genre was released on 25 September.[97]

Musical style, influence and legacy

General characteristics and development

Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel on band's musical style

Being compared to The Beatles is a big and not entirely deserved compliment. Of course, in today's guitar pop music, it's impossible to do without someone else's influence. On the other hand, in order to be successful, the group must still have identity. Whatever they say, Fool's Garden has its own style. We ourselves have heard how they already say about some young German groups: "Oh! Sounds like Fool's Garden!"

—Interview for Chas newspaper.[33]

Critics classify Fools Garden's musical style as fusion of pop rock,[21] soft rock,[5] alternative rock,[75] rock and roll,[75][98] bubblegum pop,[39] indie pop,[21] Britpop,[21] and post rock.[21] Various sources also highlighted the elements of psychedelic rock,[44] music hall,[44] baroque pop,[99] punk rock,[100] power pop,[100] indie rock,[101] electronic rock,[102] dream pop,[102] dance music,[102] synth-pop[103] and new wave[104] in the band's sound.

Russian newspaper Kommersant wrote that listeners usually learn about Fools Garden due to plays on retro-oriented radio stations (the vast majority includes the song "Lemon Tree"), but over the period of its existence the band has released many good albums. It was also mentioned that the band's style has similarities with both dance music and rock.[105][32] In another article of the same newspaper, it was noted that the group has an attitude towards "old-fashioned pop-rock", but the band's material is quite diverse: "there are things that are heavier and softer, there are ballads and fierce songs, sometimes Freudenthaler even uses autotune." The clear influence of psychedelic rock has been noted in the songs "And You Say", "Suzy", "Rainy Day", "Noone's Song" and "Northern Town", and the author of the website Zvuki.Ru also mentioned that Fool's Garden play songs that fans of melodic rock may adore.[44]

 
"Rain" (2005)
A sample of "Rain" from Ready for the Real Life. After the first line-up change Fools Garden abandoned Britpop that characterized their sound in 1990s and focused on melodic rock music.
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Joerg Hellwig, head of marketing at Intercord, told Billboard that Fool's Garden's music is "colorful guitar pop with a British touch and clear references to this genre's great tradition, which was perfected by The Beatles and have never been surpassed."[35] The band members tried to avoid the use of electro elements and other effects and relied on acoustics to try to achieve a natural sound of the music.[6] By the same edition, the band's style was characterized as Middle of the Road.[106] A critic from Music & Media, describing the musical style of Dish of the Day, noted that the sound of Fool's Garden is based on the style of The Beatles, but the sound of guitars is closer to rock,[107] and the song "Lemon Tree" was described as a mixture of circus music and bubblegum pop of the late 60s with signature melodies.[108] In a review by Danish magazine Gaffa on the next album, Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing, Lars Nielsen wrote that the release continues the "light airy melody" of its predecessor.[109] In an interview for Billboard on the release of For Sale, the band's producer Steffen Koch noted that the band's songs have matured, with a more rock emphasis, while maintaining a Beatlesque sound.[63] The songs in 25 Miles to Kissimmee were mostly melodic rock ballads.[110] After the line-up change, Fools Garden moved away from Britpop and on the following album Ready for the Real Life they switched to "guitar-oriented rock".[75] The style of the song "Cook It a While" was compared to the US West Coast rock.[98] The album Who Is Jo King? was characterized by a strong bias towards indie pop, while certain elements of dance and electronic music started to be introduced into the band's sound.[102][111] On their latest album Rise and Fall, Fools Garden returned to their original style,[92] while continuing to experiment with sound. For example, the song "Still Running" was completely recorded in synth pop style.[94][112]

Influence on the group's style

Volker Hinkel on similarities with The Beatles

If you're making pop music with melodies, then it will remind you of The Beatles. There is no way out of this but that's good, isn't it?

—Interview for Reuters.[51]

The Beatles were noted by many critics as the main artist to impact on the style of Fool's Garden. The typical Beatles' retro atmosphere and melancholic lyrics were observed in the sound of the band's songs.[31][32] Both Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel have frequently named The Beatles as their main source of inspiration and creative ideas.[21][51] Fool's Garden's musical style has been repeatedly described as being based on the work of The Beatles but with a heavier sound of guitars.[63][107] In 2012, in the Russian talk show "Profilaktika", Freudenthaler and Hinkel were asked who was the most important person in Fools Garden, and both of them instantly replied 'Beatles.'[18] The similarity in sound with the British inspirers turned out to be so strong that many listeners mistakenly attribute the authorship of the song "Lemon Tree" to them.[32] In addition to the Fab Four, Fool's Garden' style was also compared with the sound of Blur and Simple Minds.[113][114][115] The members also ranked Oasis, The Who and Coldplay as influential artists.[33][92]

Lev Gankin from the Kommersant newspaper found "Lemon Tree" similar to the songs of Paul McCartney, stating "The romantic minor of verses, followed by a lively major in the choruses - something similar can be heard in countless McCartney hits, starting with the old "All My Loving".[32] Also, according to other reviewers, the style of "Lemon Tree" was influenced by Sting and Jellyfish in terms of harmony and instrumental parts.[44][116] Another example of Paul McCartney's influence on the band's style is the song "Probably".[44]

The song "Suzy" has a borrowing from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven": Robert Plant's vocal wail at the end of the original song was transformed into a synth riff in the bridge of "Suzy".[117] Brian May from Queen was named as the source of inspiration for Volker Hinkel in writing guitar solos.[100] The spread of elements of electronic music in the sound of recent albums is thought to be influenced by Moby and A-ha.[118][119] Different critics describe several songs as being influenced by The Kinks,[120] Pink Floyd,[114] Fury in the Slaughterhouse,[121] U2[102] and Eagle-Eye Cherry.[102]

The members of Fools Garden also told they adore the music of Pat Metheny,[33] Pete Townshend,[33] Heintje Simons,[19] Status Quo,[19] Noel Gallagher,[92] Half Moon Run,[92] AC/DC,[122] The Rolling Stones,[122] Scorpions[89] and Udo Lindenberg.[89]

Appraisal

Fool's Garden are considered the followers of the Britpop wave that swept the world in the 90s, and the most prominent representatives of the German Britpop scene.[44][115][123] The band is also one of the most iconic German performers on the international music scene along with the Scorpions, E-rotic, Fun Factory and Mr. President.[39][35] Wolfgang Spahr, the German Bureau Chief of Billboard, presented Fool's Garden the "Ambassador Award" for great success in Asia in the 1996's final issue.[39]

Fool's Garden have been recognized as one of the most famous and typical one-hit wonders.[15][32] However, despite the fact that, in addition to "Lemon Tree", Fools Garden no longer released commercially successful singles,[124] various sources also highlight other quite popular songs: "Wild Days", "It Can Happen", "Why Did She Go?", "Innocence", "Probably", "Suzy", "Closer", "Dreaming" and "Does Anybody Know?".[118][125][8] In the interview for Frankfurter Allgemeine, Peter Freudenthaler stated that he thought about many songs that they would become hits, but this never happened.[15]

We all realised that it was impossible to make a follow-up of the song - if we deliberately wrote a similar song, then everybody would say that we were copying ourselves, so we just write whatever we want to but not what people want us to do, I think that's the best way for us to go on.

—Volker Hinkel, interview for South China Morning Post[126]

In 2012, Alexander Rusakov, in his book "Who is Who, or MUZPROSVET in Global Contemporary Popular Music", put Peter Freudenthaler on #792 in the rating of 1000 best musicians of global contemporary popular music for participation in Fool's Garden.[127] The band was mentioned to play the fundamental role in the formation of modern retro-rock trends.[44] In the magazine Novyi Ochevidets, the song "Lemon Tree" was named the main German hit of the 90s.[128] Frontman Peter Freudenthaler said in an interview for the Chas newspaper that Fool's Garden is "the third German band after the Scorpions and Modern Talking, which has gained worldwide popularity".[33]

The band's songs can be found many times in popular culture. In the mid-1990s, Applause Inc., which owns the rights to the Smurfs franchise, released a compilation album Smurfenhits!,[129] containing the song "Lemon Tree", recorded with the voice of the Smurfs, which bolstered sales for the company.[130][131] Also, references to Fool's Garden and the songs "Lemon Tree" and "Rolling Home" can be found in modern fiction.[132][133][134] During the 1996 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, the song "Lemon Tree", being at its peak of popularity, sounded at every match of the Czech national team, thereby becoming a kind of symbol of the Czech national team.[17] It is noteworthy that in this championship Czechs won a gold medal for the first time in history.[17]

Band members

Current line-up of the band
     
Peter Freudenthaler Thorsten Kiefer Jan Hees
     
Volker Hinkel Dirk Blümlein Gabriel Holz

Current members

  • Peter Freudenthaler — lead and backing vocals, keyboards, composer (1991—present)
  • Volker Hinkel — guitar, lead and backing vocals, composer (1991—present)
  • Dirk Blümlein — bass guitar, backing vocals (2003—present)
  • Gabriel Holz — guitar, backing vocals, composer (2003—2007; 2014—present)
  • Thorsten Kiefer — keyboards (2015—present)
  • Jan Hees — drums, percussion (2015—present)

Former members

  • Claus-Dieter Wissler — composer (1991—1995)
  • Thomas Mangold — bass guitar, backing vocals (1991—2003)
  • Ralf Wochele — drums, percussion, backing vocals (1991—2003)
  • Roland Röhl — keyboards, backing vocals (1991—2003)
  • Claus Müller — drums, percussion, backing vocals (2003—2014)

Timeline of members

Discography

Awards and nominations

Year Work Awards Category Result
1995 Themselves RSH Gold[44]
1996 Bambi Award Most Successful Young Band Won[15]
Goldene Stimmgabel[15]
Goldene Europa National Newcomer of the Year Won[15]
COMET[135]
"Lemon Tree" Hit Radio Award Hong Kong Song of the Year Won[52]
YMC- TV Channel Hong Kong Supreme Gold Song of the Year Won[135]
Themselves International Newcomer of the Year Won[135]
Radio Regenbogen Award[136]
1997 ECHO Awards Newcomer of the Year Won[137]
Most Successful National Group Nominated[138]
Best National Young Talent Nominated[138]
"Lemon Tree" Most Successful National Rock/Pop Single of the Year Nominated[138]
Best National Videoclip of the Year Nominated[138]
2005 Themselves[139] Ravensburger Kupferle Mixed Doubles Won[140]

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fools, garden, until, 2003, known, fool, garden, german, band, formed, 1991, city, pforzheim, founders, group, only, permanent, members, vocalist, peter, freudenthaler, guitarist, volker, hinkel, 1993, bassist, thomas, mangold, keyboardist, roland, röhl, drumm. Fools Garden until 2003 known as Fool s Garden is a German band formed in 1991 in the city of Pforzheim 1 The founders of the group and the only permanent members are vocalist Peter Freudenthaler and guitarist Volker Hinkel 2 In 1993 bassist Thomas Mangold keyboardist Roland Rohl and drummer Ralf Wochele were invited to join Fool s Garden for recording of the first studio album Once in a Blue Moon Fools GardenAt Blacksheep Festival 2016Background informationAlso known asFool s Garden 1991 2003 OriginPforzheim GermanyGenresPop rockrock n rollalternative rockbubblegum popindie popsoft rockpost rockYears active1991 presentLabelsTownIntercordEMISony BMGPolydorLemonadeSeven DaysJazzhausMembersPeter FreudenthalerVolker HinkelDirk BlumleinGabriel HolzThorsten KieferJan HeesPast membersThomas MangoldRoland RohlRalf WocheleClaus MullerWebsitefoolsgarden wbr deThe band became famous worldwide in 1995 owing to the release of their second studio album Dish of the Day and in particular the song Lemon Tree which entered numerous music charts around the world and topped five of them However Fool s Garden was never able to repeat the success of their only hit 3 A series of failures to replicate the commercial success of Dish of the Day in 1997 2000 and 2003 resulted in tension and disagreement amongst the band s members and dramatically discredited its reputation in the eyes of record label executives 4 5 Consequently Mangold Rohl and Wochele left Fool s Garden in 2003 but a year later new musicians joined the band To signify the change it was decided to remove the apostrophe from the band s name on their next album Ready for the Real Life Due to the problems caused by the lack of a label ready to work with Fools Garden the members of the band founded their own company Lemonade Music in 2004 5 Fools Garden s musical style has been characterized as pop rock soft rock Britpop and some other genres Critics have noted the influence of such artists as The Beatles Sting and The Who 6 The group may be classified as a one hit wonder Since its formation in 1991 the band has released 9 studio albums received 12 music awards and played over a thousand live performances The bands s total sales have exceeded 6 million copies 7 Up to the present Fools Garden continues concert activity and gives performances all over the world 8 9 10 The band performs both in complete line up and as a duo Hinkel Freudenthaler or a trio Hinkel Freudenthaler Holz 10 11 Contents 1 Background 2 History 2 1 Early career and first successes 1991 1994 2 2 Worldwide commercial success Lemon Tree and Dish of the Day 1995 1996 2 3 Worldwide tour and release of Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing 1997 1999 2 4 Commercial failures and line up changes 2000 2003 2 5 New line up and musical style 2004 2013 2 6 Second line up change 2014 present 3 Musical style influence and legacy 3 1 General characteristics and development 3 2 Influence on the group s style 3 3 Appraisal 4 Band members 4 1 Current members 4 2 Former members 4 3 Timeline of members 5 Discography 6 Awards and nominations 7 References 7 1 Bibliography 8 External links 8 1 Fanclub websites 8 2 Other pagesBackground Edit Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel are the founding members and the only members of the original lineup still active In 1987 Volker Hinkel and Claus Dieter Wissler founded the music project called Magazine 12 Together they recorded two songs W A R this song was dedicated to the Gulf War and A Time of Life Later in 1991 Hinkel entered the University of Stuttgart where he became acquainted with Peter Freudenthaler who studied multimedia technology 13 Prior to starting his studies at the university Peter Freudenthaler had already participated in several musical groups and worked as a piano tuner 14 15 Having learned that Freudenthaler also composed music Hinkel asked him for recordings of his songs Sandy and Tell Me Who I Am and later invited him to Magazine 16 17 Hinkel reworked Freudenthaler s arrangement of Lena which was the first work of the Hinkel Freudenthaler duo 12 Despite being Germans the musicians made the decision to write songs in English as they felt that English was more suitable to their music and the performers who inspired them sang in English as well 18 19 We discovered that we both have a great passion for music and that we have lived only three kilometers apart geographically since childhood We started to write songs together and quickly realized that it worked really well So it really had to be some kind of fateful encounter because the interaction with no one else worked that well before Peter Freudenthaler on acquaintance with Volker Hinkel 20 Together they rearranged their compositions and recorded them on a compact cassette 16 Via Steffen Koch who became the band s producer for the next few years this cassette got to Gunter Koch He listened to Magazine s songs appreciated them and agreed to collaborate with the band on following recordings 16 Being inspired by the performance of Oasis Blur and The Beatles the musicians chose to play Britpop 21 despite the fact that it was extremely difficult to achieve any commercial success playing such music since dance music and techno were especially popular in Germany in those years 6 Peter Freudenthaler on band s name That came out of a beer mood We sat together in a local pub that evening ate drank beer and thought about how to call our new album Garden came into our minds and at some point Fool s Garden echoed through the room Then the name for the album was born When it came time to start the band we still liked the name so much that we said we d just call the whole band Fool s Garden Interview for Jesus de 22 After a while Hinkel and Freudenthaler discovered a newspaper advertisement in which it was proposed to record an album for 130 DM 16 This is how Magazine was recorded 16 In addition to the songs recorded on the promo cassette the album included two songs written by Hinkel with Claus Wissler as well as a cover version of the song I Am the Walrus by The Beatles This limited edition album was the precursor for the promo album Fool s Garden Man in a Cage simply abbreviated as Fool s Garden released in 1991 They also decided to include a cover version of the song Cry Baby Cry which was sung by Volker Hinkel as well as the songs Scared and No Flowers By Request which Hinkel recorded with Claus Wissler 12 In order to perform the recorded material live it was decided to invite bassist Thomas Mangold keyboardist Roland Rohl and drummer Ralf Wochele and rename the band to Fool s Garden 19 According to Peter Freudenthaler the name Fool s Garden was the most consistent with the band s philosophy and suited the description of its members 23 The newly formed band played their first gig in 1991 Fool s Garden performed as the opening act for Sidney Youngblood in Boblingen 24 History EditEarly career and first successes 1991 1994 Edit The eponymous promo album which was dedicated to John Winston Lennon got no recognition 5 There were only five copies ever produced 13 The band s first singles Careless Games Tell Me Who I Am and Once in a Blue Moon Spirit 91 were released in 1992 13 Due to the lack of the opportunity to rehearse and record songs in a professional studio the members of the young band were forced to meet several times a week in the living room of Volker Hinkel s parental home 17 In the same year Fool s Garden first appeared on radio television TV channels SWR 3 in Stuttgart and Tele 5 in Munich and began performing their first concerts in Pforzheim which made them famous in their region 13 5 In 1993 the band decided to re record the songs from the promo CD and release the first full length studio album Once in a Blue Moon 25 It was originally released by the group independently on the Town Music label with a circulation of one thousand copies 13 26 The CDs were sold mainly at concerts sent to local radio and TV stations and were also given away for free 13 To promote the new material Fool s Garden immediately embarked on an extended concert tour throughout Baden Wurttemberg and adjoining Bavaria 5 19 As Peter Freudenthaler recalled at that time the band mainly performed in small municipal halls in front of a small audience 19 According to him only 20 people came to the first Fool s Garden concert in Munich 19 It is also worth noting that on Fool s Garden and Once in a Blue Moon the lead vocals were equally divided between Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel The album Once in a Blue Moon turned out to be a commercial failure resulting in Town Music label suffering heavy losses and even ending up on the verge of bankruptcy 26 The company s management was going to cancel the contract with the band but after a series of negotiations Steffen Koch managed to convince the head of Town Music to retain the partnership with Fool s Garden until the next studio album was released 26 Moreover despite all the efforts of the band and its producer large companies did not dare to work with Fool s Garden 27 Wild Days 1994 source source A sample of Wild Days the first single of Fool s Garden to enter charts Problems playing this file See media help Fool s Garden achieved their first major success in 1994 The German branch of fashion retailer C amp A used Wild Days the first single from the band s upcoming studio album for a TV commercial 5 6 The song Wild Days won a competition from over 700 applicants Also the single Wild Days became the first release of the group to enter the music charts the song reached 59 in the German chart where it lasted 13 weeks and 37 in Austria 28 29 In the same year Fool s Garden made their first guest appearances in the German interregional newspaper Sonntag aktuell 30 Wolle Kriwanek the author of the article predicted a major success for Fool s Garden after listening to their songs which just happened a year later 30 Worldwide commercial success Lemon Tree and Dish of the Day 1995 1996 Edit Lemon Tree 1995 source source A sample of Lemon Tree the major success of Fool s Garden that made them popular worldwidely Problems playing this file See media help In April 1995 a single with the song Lemon Tree was released It became a real hit and got high positions in many European charts The atmosphere reminiscent to the one of The Beatles songs retro sounding in the style of the 1960s perfect English pronunciation and melancholic lyrics let the song to gain recognition from millions of listeners around the world 31 32 Freudenthaler composed it when he was waiting for his girlfriend at home 33 There were 45 cover versions of the song recorded and it has also been translated into 40 languages 3 34 Due to the lack of support from the major record label Fool s Garden were forced to record release and promote new releases on the small Town Records label almost independently 6 We did all the groundwork ourselves by presenting Lemon Tree to radio stations and local retailers Regional private stations started playing it and we had up to 53 plays per week and about 400 inquiries about the group When SWF3 the pop channel of state broadcaster Sudwestrundfunk picked it up things really got going Steffen Koch the band s producer interview for Billboard 6 Having noticed the success of Fool s Garden Intercord which had previously refused to cooperate with the band signed a contract with them in November 1995 6 15 Intercord CEO Robert Collisch believed that the biggest benefit to Fool s Garden was that they were a real band not just a project The album Dish of the Day was released in December 1995 containing the songs Lemon Tree and Wild Days According to Intercord s report Dish of the Day became a bestseller in Europe with over 600 000 copies sold and over 1 100 000 copies worldwide 35 36 The album entered many charts throughout Europe Both Lemon Tree and Dish of the Day sold best in Austria and Switzerland Fool s Garden s songs were played on radio stations around the world from San Diego to Jakarta 37 The song also enjoyed success in the UK where it peaked at 61 on the UK Singles Chart and the remix version also entered the chart peaking at a higher 26 38 According to Intercord the band had great potential to play internationally 6 Due to Intercord Lemon Tree and Dish of the Day achieved particular success in Southeast Asia the song received the Song of the Year award from Metro Broadcast Corporation Ltd in Hong Kong and Taiwanese singer Tarcy Su has recorded covers in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese 39 The album received gold certification in Thailand platinum certification in Singapore Taiwan and double platinum one in Malaysia 39 Between March and May 1996 Fool s Garden had played about 50 concerts with an approximate audience of 700 people at each concert 6 In the summer of the same year the quintet participated in 14 open air concerts performing as an opening act for the German pop rock band Pur however already in the autumn Fool s Garden began touring as headliners 6 Between the 14th and 16 June 1996 Fool s Garden performed as headliners at the Open Flair music festival with such famous German performers as Marla Glen Selig and Jazzkantine and on 5 July the band performed with Joan Osborne Suede Blur and Iggy Pop at the Midtfyns Festival in Ringe Denmark 40 41 19 In the same year Intercord reissued the album Once in a Blue Moon however despite the excitement around the band after the success of Lemon Tree the album neither entered the charts nor received any certification Also in 1996 Fool s Garden s music first appeared in German cinema the song Wild Days was included on the soundtracks for the film Regular Guys and the TV series Freunde furs Leben 42 43 Worldwide tour and release of Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing 1997 1999 Edit Nobody would have anything against a new big hit but I think even if we would have it like the Lemon Tree it would not be the same anymore Because this opens so many doors for the very first time in our lives we d been the first time on the plane for a concert we d been the first time outside Europe we d been the first time outside of Germany for a concert for a radio show for a TV show everything was for the first time with that song Another big hit would not ever bring the same feeling again Peter Freudenthaler from 25 Years To New World documentary 17 The success of 1995 1996 brought the band a number of awards including ECHO Goldene Stimmgabel Goldene Europa Bambi and R SH Gold 44 45 46 Following the commercial success of Lemon Tree and Dish of the Day the band embarked on a worldwide concert tour playing over 100 shows around the world 14 17 47 The number of listeners at the concerts reached up to 80 000 48 Fool s Garden have played in Europe outside Germany North America South Africa and Asia where it has achieved the greatest success 49 47 Touring in Italy and Spain was also successful 50 According to Thomas Mangold and Roland Rohl at that time the members of the band had an income of about 1 500 Deutsche Mark per month 47 This allowed them to quit their regular jobs and take up professional musical careers 47 Probably 1997 source source A sample of Probably The backing vocals of Volker Hinkel can be also heard throughout the recording Problems playing this file See media help After returning from the world tour the musicians began working on a new album 51 Owing to the fact that Fool s Garden members became professional musicians and stopped spending time on regular work new material was prepared very quickly the songs were composed just in two months and the process of recording took only six months it began in January 1997 and lasted until July 51 Recording and mixing took place at Maryland and Hinkelstone Studio The third album Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing was released on 8 September 1997 Three months before the official release in order to promote the disc a single with the song Why Did She Go was released 52 which managed to stay on the German singles chart for 9 weeks reaching 76 53 The song has also been suggested to be used for an automobile advertisement 52 Another notable song is Probably which was recognized as the group s second major success after Lemon Tree 21 The single with the song peaked at 86 in the German chart staying there for 8 weeks 54 Also Probably received serious support from radio stations and in 1997 almost entered the top 50 most played songs in Europe 55 56 In the same year Probably was featured on the soundtrack for the TV series Kommisar Rex 57 Despite Intercord s hopes that the new album will sell out in large numbers on the wave of the popularity of the previous platinum album Dish of the Day 58 Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing did not repeat the success of its predecessor 59 It took only 44 in Germany and 50 in Switzerland 60 61 According to the Russian musical agency Zvuki Ru the reason for such failure was absence of a title hit 59 In 1998 Fool s Garden performed at the German Cultural Days in Singapore 62 Commercial failures and line up changes 2000 2003 Edit Three years later on 5 June 2000 Fool s Garden released their next studio album For Sale which was produced by James Herter on the Seven Days Music label 63 37 The name For Sale reflected the situation in the band at that time after the breakup of the Intercord EMI label the band was literally put up for sale 64 63 The first single Suzy stayed on the German singles chart for 8 weeks reaching 75 63 After the release of the album the band arranged a promotional tour in Germany and also organized an autograph session in Munich 63 On 18 June Fool s Garden performed in Singapore at the Radio Music Awards 63 Also on 24 July the band performed in Ulm at a concert organized annually by the local radio station Radio 7 65 For Sale was released all over the world in Europe South Africa Mexico South Korea Taiwan Singapore Thailand Indonesia Japan and the Philippines 63 Despite the vast geographic variety of the release and the band s efforts to promote the new material the album turned out to be a commercial failure it also did not achieve chart success For Sale took 84 on the German albums chart staying with this result for only 1 week 66 An attempt to release something similar to the biggest hit of the group Lemon Tree also failed for 3 weeks in the German singles chart the song It Can Happen could not rise above 86 67 One of the versions of 25 Miles to Kissimmee album cover Members of Fool s Garden shortly before the breakup from left to right Roland Rohl Thomas Mangold Peter Freudenthaler Volker Hinkel Ralf Wochele In 2001 Fool s Garden signed a contract with another record label Polydor 16 In September of the same year the band celebrated their 10th anniversary with a two day party in Pforzheim which featured many well known German bands 68 The proceeds from this event were donated to charity through the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Foundation 16 Also in 2001 the band began work on their next studio album The new CD 25 Miles to Kissimmee was ready to be released in early 2002 but due to delays on the part of Polydor Records the album was not released until 17 January 2003 16 Due to another unsuccessful album tension and disagreements occurred between the musicians 69 As a result on 19 April of the same year rumors appeared in the press that Fool s Garden had disbanded 16 Bassist Thomas Mangold keyboardist Roland Rohl and drummer Ralf Wochele left the band After leaving Fool s Garden Thomas Mangold and Roland Rohl started an advertising agency and a print shop for production of CD and DVD covers in Merklingen 16 14 Mangold continued his musical career playing bass with many different bands 16 Ralf Wochele got a job as a music teacher at a school and was also accepted into the band called CoverUp in which he still participates 16 14 Actually the band hadn t split up we just parted with our former fellow musicians We were at a point where it wasn t really fun anymore The basic goal was to be able to do what we enjoyed a lot When that fun was lost we said to ourselves that we had to act very quickly and be careful not to let this boat sink but to get it started again with a new crew Peter Freudenthaler 70 Hinkel and Freudenthaler decided to pursue their musical careers as a duo However they faced a number of problems in the further promotion of the album 25 Miles to Kissimmee as due to the breakup of the band Polydor refused to cooperate further with Fool s Garden Therefore the remaining members of the band formed their own label Lemonade Music 71 Soon guitarist Gabriel Holz bassist Dirk Blumlein and drummer Claus Muller were invited to the group for live performances The last two musicians have collaborated with Volker Hinkel since 2002 on his solo project Hinkel in particular on the album Not a Life Saving Device 72 Changes in the line up were also marked in the name of the band from that time on it became known as Fools Garden without an apostrophe 5 New line up and musical style 2004 2013 Edit Bassist Dirk Blumlein and drummer Claus Muller joined Fools Garden after the release of Ready for the Real Life Volker Hinkel Peter Freudenthaler and new musicians recorded the album Ready for the Real Life which was released in the autumn of 2005 73 As soon as the work on the album was completed Blumlein Holz and Muller were invited to Fools Garden as permanent members For the purpose of promoting the album the single Does Anybody Know Welcome Sun was released in the summer of 2005 74 Critics noted a change in band s musical style Fools Garden moved away from Britpop and switched to guitar based melodic rock 75 The new musical style allowed the band to enter the airplay of radio stations again and the songs from Ready for the Real Life to become the soundtracks for various films TV shows and commercials 16 75 On 3 July 2005 the band played their biggest concert performing at the festival dedicated to the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad 5 7 16 3 In total the concert attracted over 100 000 listeners Also in 2005 Fools Garden was honored with the Ravensburger Kupferle Award 76 In 2007 Gabriel Holtz left the band and returned to his native Neukolln 16 In 2008 2009 Fools Garden released two new EPs Napster Session 2008 and Home as well as a compilation album High Times The Best of Fools Garden and a live album Best Of Unplugged Live 77 The compilation also contained a new song High Time which was released as a single The song reached high positions in the charts of listeners of various radio stations for example Hessischer Rundfunk 77 Fools Garden in 2012 In 2011 the band celebrated their 20th anniversary by performing at a charity concert with the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra 16 In the same year Fools Garden began writing material for a new release which was recorded in the first half of 2012 in England 78 In July of the same year the new single Innocence was presented to a number of radio stations and in August it reached number one on the SW3 listeners chart 16 79 A video clip was also filmed for the song which the band members created on their own 80 The seventh album Who Is Jo King was released on 14 September The cover artwork was created by Klaus Voormann known for designing the cover for The Beatles Revolver in 1966 81 This explains the noticeable similarity between the two covers 82 83 In early 2013 the second single from Who Is Jo King Maybe was released In the same year Fools Garden performed at the German Festival at the Brandenburg Gate 84 Second line up change 2014 present Edit New line up of Fools Garden left to right Jan Hees Thorsten Kiefer Gabriel Holz Peter Freudenthaler Dirk Blumlein and Volker Hinkel The band s line up changed again in 2014 2015 First of all Gabriel Holz returned to Fools Garden in the autumn of 2014 17 In early 2015 keyboardist Torsten Kiefer joined the band 85 whereas in the early summer of the same year drummer Claus Muller left the group and was replaced by Jan Hees 86 In 2015 Fools Garden performed cover versions of ten 1990s hit songs by various artists such as Depeche Mode Annie Lennox the Backstreet Boys Bruce Springsteen No Doubt and Madonna in their usual unique style for the third season of the RTL 90s themed music show Formula 1 87 For ten consecutive weeks Fools Garden performed each song under the moderation of Peter Illman 87 It was decided to release these cover versions on an album called Flashback 88 At the end of 2016 Fools Garden together with the German jazz singer Karl Frierson recorded a new song New World which was released in early 2017 In the same year the 10 episode documentary 25 Years to New World was released on the band s official YouTube channel 17 In April 2018 Fools Garden released their next album Rise and Fall which was recorded at the band s own studio in Neuhausen 89 It was the first time when Gabriel Holz participated in composition of all the songs along with Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel 90 17 It s the band s first album since 2000 s For Sale to enter the German charts reaching 97 between 7 and 13 May 2018 91 Maxazine named the album the best since Dish of the Day and successor Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing 92 and Musikreviews de called Rise and Fall the best album since 1995 93 To promote the new material Fools Garden embarked on an extensive concert tour across Germany 94 Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel also expressed their desire to do a concert tour in the UK someday 17 During the COVID 19 pandemic Fools Garden organized the online festival on Instagram called Garden Festival 95 It was hold on 1 May 2020 and was also associated with a fundraising campaign organized by the Rotary Club Pforzheim 95 In the summer of the same year Peter Freudenthaler Volker Hinkel and Jan Hees took part in the recording of songs ABCD and La rissa of the Italian music project La Crisi Di Luglio 96 At the moment the band is working on a new album The first song Outta Love recorded in electro pop genre was released on 25 September 97 Musical style influence and legacy EditGeneral characteristics and development Edit Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel on band s musical style Being compared to The Beatles is a big and not entirely deserved compliment Of course in today s guitar pop music it s impossible to do without someone else s influence On the other hand in order to be successful the group must still have identity Whatever they say Fool s Garden has its own style We ourselves have heard how they already say about some young German groups Oh Sounds like Fool s Garden Interview for Chas newspaper 33 Critics classify Fools Garden s musical style as fusion of pop rock 21 soft rock 5 alternative rock 75 rock and roll 75 98 bubblegum pop 39 indie pop 21 Britpop 21 and post rock 21 Various sources also highlighted the elements of psychedelic rock 44 music hall 44 baroque pop 99 punk rock 100 power pop 100 indie rock 101 electronic rock 102 dream pop 102 dance music 102 synth pop 103 and new wave 104 in the band s sound Russian newspaper Kommersant wrote that listeners usually learn about Fools Garden due to plays on retro oriented radio stations the vast majority includes the song Lemon Tree but over the period of its existence the band has released many good albums It was also mentioned that the band s style has similarities with both dance music and rock 105 32 In another article of the same newspaper it was noted that the group has an attitude towards old fashioned pop rock but the band s material is quite diverse there are things that are heavier and softer there are ballads and fierce songs sometimes Freudenthaler even uses autotune The clear influence of psychedelic rock has been noted in the songs And You Say Suzy Rainy Day Noone s Song and Northern Town and the author of the website Zvuki Ru also mentioned that Fool s Garden play songs that fans of melodic rock may adore 44 Rain 2005 source source A sample of Rain from Ready for the Real Life After the first line up change Fools Garden abandoned Britpop that characterized their sound in 1990s and focused on melodic rock music Problems playing this file See media help Joerg Hellwig head of marketing at Intercord told Billboard that Fool s Garden s music is colorful guitar pop with a British touch and clear references to this genre s great tradition which was perfected by The Beatles and have never been surpassed 35 The band members tried to avoid the use of electro elements and other effects and relied on acoustics to try to achieve a natural sound of the music 6 By the same edition the band s style was characterized as Middle of the Road 106 A critic from Music amp Media describing the musical style of Dish of the Day noted that the sound of Fool s Garden is based on the style of The Beatles but the sound of guitars is closer to rock 107 and the song Lemon Tree was described as a mixture of circus music and bubblegum pop of the late 60s with signature melodies 108 In a review by Danish magazine Gaffa on the next album Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing Lars Nielsen wrote that the release continues the light airy melody of its predecessor 109 In an interview for Billboard on the release of For Sale the band s producer Steffen Koch noted that the band s songs have matured with a more rock emphasis while maintaining a Beatlesque sound 63 The songs in 25 Miles to Kissimmee were mostly melodic rock ballads 110 After the line up change Fools Garden moved away from Britpop and on the following album Ready for the Real Life they switched to guitar oriented rock 75 The style of the song Cook It a While was compared to the US West Coast rock 98 The album Who Is Jo King was characterized by a strong bias towards indie pop while certain elements of dance and electronic music started to be introduced into the band s sound 102 111 On their latest album Rise and Fall Fools Garden returned to their original style 92 while continuing to experiment with sound For example the song Still Running was completely recorded in synth pop style 94 112 Influence on the group s style Edit Volker Hinkel on similarities with The Beatles If you re making pop music with melodies then it will remind you of The Beatles There is no way out of this but that s good isn t it Interview for Reuters 51 The Beatles were noted by many critics as the main artist to impact on the style of Fool s Garden The typical Beatles retro atmosphere and melancholic lyrics were observed in the sound of the band s songs 31 32 Both Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel have frequently named The Beatles as their main source of inspiration and creative ideas 21 51 Fool s Garden s musical style has been repeatedly described as being based on the work of The Beatles but with a heavier sound of guitars 63 107 In 2012 in the Russian talk show Profilaktika Freudenthaler and Hinkel were asked who was the most important person in Fools Garden and both of them instantly replied Beatles 18 The similarity in sound with the British inspirers turned out to be so strong that many listeners mistakenly attribute the authorship of the song Lemon Tree to them 32 In addition to the Fab Four Fool s Garden style was also compared with the sound of Blur and Simple Minds 113 114 115 The members also ranked Oasis The Who and Coldplay as influential artists 33 92 Lev Gankin from the Kommersant newspaper found Lemon Tree similar to the songs of Paul McCartney stating The romantic minor of verses followed by a lively major in the choruses something similar can be heard in countless McCartney hits starting with the old All My Loving 32 Also according to other reviewers the style of Lemon Tree was influenced by Sting and Jellyfish in terms of harmony and instrumental parts 44 116 Another example of Paul McCartney s influence on the band s style is the song Probably 44 The song Suzy has a borrowing from Led Zeppelin s Stairway to Heaven Robert Plant s vocal wail at the end of the original song was transformed into a synth riff in the bridge of Suzy 117 Brian May from Queen was named as the source of inspiration for Volker Hinkel in writing guitar solos 100 The spread of elements of electronic music in the sound of recent albums is thought to be influenced by Moby and A ha 118 119 Different critics describe several songs as being influenced by The Kinks 120 Pink Floyd 114 Fury in the Slaughterhouse 121 U2 102 and Eagle Eye Cherry 102 The members of Fools Garden also told they adore the music of Pat Metheny 33 Pete Townshend 33 Heintje Simons 19 Status Quo 19 Noel Gallagher 92 Half Moon Run 92 AC DC 122 The Rolling Stones 122 Scorpions 89 and Udo Lindenberg 89 Appraisal Edit Fool s Garden are considered the followers of the Britpop wave that swept the world in the 90s and the most prominent representatives of the German Britpop scene 44 115 123 The band is also one of the most iconic German performers on the international music scene along with the Scorpions E rotic Fun Factory and Mr President 39 35 Wolfgang Spahr the German Bureau Chief of Billboard presented Fool s Garden the Ambassador Award for great success in Asia in the 1996 s final issue 39 Fool s Garden have been recognized as one of the most famous and typical one hit wonders 15 32 However despite the fact that in addition to Lemon Tree Fools Garden no longer released commercially successful singles 124 various sources also highlight other quite popular songs Wild Days It Can Happen Why Did She Go Innocence Probably Suzy Closer Dreaming and Does Anybody Know 118 125 8 In the interview for Frankfurter Allgemeine Peter Freudenthaler stated that he thought about many songs that they would become hits but this never happened 15 We all realised that it was impossible to make a follow up of the song if we deliberately wrote a similar song then everybody would say that we were copying ourselves so we just write whatever we want to but not what people want us to do I think that s the best way for us to go on Volker Hinkel interview for South China Morning Post 126 In 2012 Alexander Rusakov in his book Who is Who or MUZPROSVET in Global Contemporary Popular Music put Peter Freudenthaler on 792 in the rating of 1000 best musicians of global contemporary popular music for participation in Fool s Garden 127 The band was mentioned to play the fundamental role in the formation of modern retro rock trends 44 In the magazine Novyi Ochevidets the song Lemon Tree was named the main German hit of the 90s 128 Frontman Peter Freudenthaler said in an interview for the Chas newspaper that Fool s Garden is the third German band after the Scorpions and Modern Talking which has gained worldwide popularity 33 The band s songs can be found many times in popular culture In the mid 1990s Applause Inc which owns the rights to the Smurfs franchise released a compilation album Smurfenhits 129 containing the song Lemon Tree recorded with the voice of the Smurfs which bolstered sales for the company 130 131 Also references to Fool s Garden and the songs Lemon Tree and Rolling Home can be found in modern fiction 132 133 134 During the 1996 Men s Ice Hockey World Championships the song Lemon Tree being at its peak of popularity sounded at every match of the Czech national team thereby becoming a kind of symbol of the Czech national team 17 It is noteworthy that in this championship Czechs won a gold medal for the first time in history 17 Band members EditCurrent line up of the band Peter Freudenthaler Thorsten Kiefer Jan Hees Volker Hinkel Dirk Blumlein Gabriel HolzCurrent members Edit Peter Freudenthaler lead and backing vocals keyboards composer 1991 present Volker Hinkel guitar lead and backing vocals composer 1991 present Dirk Blumlein bass guitar backing vocals 2003 present Gabriel Holz guitar backing vocals composer 2003 2007 2014 present Thorsten Kiefer keyboards 2015 present Jan Hees drums percussion 2015 present Former members Edit Claus Dieter Wissler composer 1991 1995 Thomas Mangold bass guitar backing vocals 1991 2003 Ralf Wochele drums percussion backing vocals 1991 2003 Roland Rohl keyboards backing vocals 1991 2003 Claus Muller drums percussion backing vocals 2003 2014 Timeline of members EditDiscography EditFool s Garden 1991 Once in a Blue Moon 1993 Dish of the Day 1995 Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing 1997 For Sale 2000 25 Miles to Kissimmee 2003 Ready for the Real Life 2005 Who Is Jo King 2012 Flashback 2015 Rise and Fall 2018 Captain Coast Is Clear 2021 Awards and nominations EditYear Work Awards Category Result1995 Themselves RSH Gold 44 1996 Bambi Award Most Successful Young Band Won 15 Goldene Stimmgabel 15 Goldene Europa National Newcomer of the Year Won 15 COMET 135 Lemon Tree Hit Radio Award Hong Kong Song of the Year Won 52 YMC TV Channel Hong Kong Supreme Gold Song of the Year Won 135 Themselves International Newcomer of the Year Won 135 Radio Regenbogen Award 136 1997 ECHO Awards Newcomer of the Year Won 137 Most Successful National Group Nominated 138 Best National Young Talent Nominated 138 Lemon Tree Most Successful National Rock Pop Single of the Year Nominated 138 Best National Videoclip of the Year Nominated 138 2005 Themselves 139 Ravensburger Kupferle Mixed Doubles Won 140 References Edit Fools Garden landeten 1995 den Zitronenbaum Hit in German Badische Neueste Nachrichten Retrieved 31 July 2018 Susanne Glas 7 May 2019 Fools Garden gibt Open Air Konzert im Pfarrgarten in Neuhausen in German Pforzheimer Zeitung Retrieved 17 November 2019 a b c Ded Zvukar 21 September 2011 Pod senyu limonnogo dereva in Russian Zvuki Ru Retrieved 16 September 2016 Fool s Garden in French Cherie FM Retrieved 11 November 2019 a b c d e f g h i Fool s Garden in German laut de Retrieved 16 September 2016 a b c d e f g h i j Ellie Weinert 23 March 1996 Intercord Feeds German Tastes With Fool s Garden s Dish of the Day Billboard Vol 108 no 12 pp 9 18 ISSN 0006 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9780826463210 Rusakov Aleksandr 2012 Kto est kto ili MUZPROSVET v globalnoj sovremennoj populyarnoj muzyke in Russian Fluid FreeFly ISBN 9785905720369 Kautz Anke 1997 BRAVO eine Traumfabrik fur Kids Die Jugendzeitschrift BRAVO Analyse unter Berucksichtigung der Besonderheiten der Zielgruppe in German Leipzig Frankfurt am Main Diplomica Verlag GmbH ISBN 9783832401313 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fools Garden Fanclub websites Edit Band s fanclub Official German Fanclub of Fools GardenOther pages Edit Official website Official Italian website History of the band in Munzinger Archive Advertising agency of Thomas Mangold and Roland Rohl Hinkelstone Productions Fools Garden on Spotify Fools Garden on SoundCloud Lemonade Music Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Fools Garden amp oldid 1130078964, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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