Artist
Alphaville
Alphaville is a synthpop artist from Münster, Germany formed in 1982. 55 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Synthpop · Münster, Germany · Best synthpop albums
- 55
- Releases
- 1984–2024
- Active years
- 1982
- Formed
Discography
21
Most popular
Afternoons in Utopia
1986 · 13 tracks
Salvation
1997
Catching Rays On Giant
2010
Prostitute
1994
The Breathtaking Blue
1989
Stark Naked and Absolutely Live
2000
The Best of Alphaville
-
FOREVER! Best Of 40 Years
2024
A Night at the Philharmonie Berlin
2024
Eternally Yours
2022
Forever Young (Super Deluxe Edition; 2019 Remaster)
2019
Forever Young (2019 Remaster)
2019
Strange Attractor
2017
CrazyShow
2003
Salvation (Deluxe Version) (2023 Remaster)
1997
Prostitute (Deluxe Version) (2023 Remaster)
1994
First Harvest 1984-92
1992
First Harvest 1984-1992
1991
The Breathtaking Blue (2021 Remaster)
1989
The Singles Collection
1988
Afternoons in Utopia (2021 Remaster)
1986
Singles & EPs
34Wishful Thinking (Physical Shortcut) (2023 Remaster)
Single · 2023
Flame (Demo) (2023 Remaster)
Single · 2023
I Die For You Today (The Blank & Jones Mixes)
EP · 2023
Eternally Yours Bonus-EP I
EP · 2023
The Impossible Dream (Single Version) (2023 Remaster)
Single · 2023
Eternally Yours Bonus-EP II
EP · 2023
Fools (Bruce Mix) (2023 Remaster)
Single · 2023
Mysteries of Love - EP
Single · 2023
Summer Rain - EP
Single · 2023
Red Rose - EP
Single · 2022
Forever Young - Symphonic Version (Single Edit)
Single · 2022
Sounds Like a Melody - Symphonic Version (Single Edit)
Single · 2022
Big in Japan - Symphonic Version (Single Edit)
Single · 2022
Romeos - EP
Single · 2022
Sensations - EP
Single · 2022
Dance With Me (Live in Salt Lake City 1999) (2021 Remaster)
Single · 2021
Jerusalem - EP
Single · 2021
Dance With Me - EP
Single · 2021
The Mysteries of Love (Alternative Remix) (2021 Remaster)
Single · 2021
Summer In Berlin
Single · 2021
Universal Daddy - EP
Single · 2021
Sounds Like a Melody (Blank & Jones x Gold & Lloyd Remix)
Single · 2020
Love Will Find a Way
Single · 2018
Song For No One
Single · 2011
I Die For You Today
Single · 2010
Forever Young / Welcome to the Sun
Single · 2009
Next Generation (2021 Remaster)
Single · 1986
Jet Set / Golden Feeling EP (2019 Remaster)
EP · 1985
Big in Japan EP (2019 Remaster)
Single · 1984
Forever Young
Single · 1984
Forever Young EP (2019 Remaster)
Single · 1984
Sounds Like a Melody
Single · 1984
Big in Japan
Single · 1984
Sounds Like a Melody EP
Single · 1984
Upcoming shows
Community
More about Alphaville
About
Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum, born 26 May 1954 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia), Bernhard Lloyd (real name Bernhard Gößling, born 6 June 1960 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia), and Frank Mertens (real name Frank Sorgatz, born 26 October 1961 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia). The band was at first named Forever Young before changing to Alphaville. They are best known for their three biggest hits, "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody" and "Forever Young". Alphaville was formed in early 1982, when Marian Gold and Bernhard Lloyd met at the music project Nelson Community. Many months later, Frank Mertens joined the project. Together the three wrote Forever Young and recorded their first demo of the same name. In 1984, the newly-renamed Alphaville released their debut single, "Big in Japan", which Gold wrote in 1979 after hearing the music of Holly Johnson's band Big in Japan. In autumn 1984, they released their debut album, Forever Young, produced by Colin Pearson, Wolfgang Loos and Andreas Budde.
Read moreRead less
Despite its success, Frank Mertens left the band that year and was replaced in January 1985 by Ricky Echolette (born Wolfgang Neuhaus, in Cologne on 7 August 1960), who was credited on the Afternoons in Utopia album. "Big In Japan" was Alphaville's biggest hit, topping the charts in Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Venezuela and the U.S. Billboard Dance Chart (the group's only Top 10 on any Billboard chart). The single also reached the Top Five in Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Ireland and South Africa. It became the group's only Top 20 single in the UK, peaking at No. 8. The band's next two singles, "Sounds Like a Melody" and "Forever Young," were also both European Top 5 successes, although the former track failed to make an impression on the American charts. Amid reports that pop star Laura Branigan was featuring the song on her next album, Hold Me, Alphaville's "Forever Young" was re-released as a single in the US, but it did not prove to be massively popular. Branigan's version, though promoted on stickers adorning the album, subsequently remained an album cut in the US. She would go on to perform the song as an encore at nearly every concert she performed, until her death in 2004. The Alphaville version was released a third time in the US in 1988, to promote Alphaville: The Singles Collection, and peaked at No. 65, their highest charting (and also last) single on the Billboard Hot 100. International re-releases of Alphaville's "Forever Young" followed in 1989, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2009. Several covers have been recorded featuring male or female vocalists often erroneously attributed to be Alphaville's Marian Gold or Laura Branigan.
Alphaville in brief
- How many Alphaville releases are on Riffiter?
- 55 releases are catalogued, spanning 1984 to 2024.
- When was Alphaville formed?
- Alphaville formed in 1982, in Münster, Germany.
- What genre is Alphaville?
- Alphaville is catalogued under Synthpop.
- What is the most recent Alphaville release on Riffiter?
- FOREVER! Best Of 40 Years, released in 2024.