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MUNICH June 10, 1982The Rolling Stones
Peter Maffay
J. Geils Band
Links Peter Maffay, rechts Mick Jagger: Unter Rockmusikern fühlte sich Fritz Rau am wohlsten. Musik war nicht nur ein Geschäft für ihn.
A tribute to music promoter Fritz Rau
In the 1950s, Fritz Rau became famous for bringing American jazz musicians to tour in Germany.
Later, he promoted the likes of the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton - long before they became international stars.
The family man - Charismatic and choleric, humorous and warm - that's how his contemporaries describe him. Al Jarreau
called Rau "Everybody's Papa." Mick Jagger called the German the "Godfather." For many artists, he was not just a business partner,
he was more like a member of the family. He brought the Rolling Stones to German stages.Rau took decades the most important music stars to Germany, invented new formats and organized the first large open-air
concerts of the Republic. He was next to Marek Lieberberg as the most important tour manager of the country. Originally
born Pforzheimer lawyer wanted to be. In the 50s he began to organize first in Heidelberg, jazz concerts. He invited
a Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and Dave Brubeck. In Frankfurt / Main, he was in the 60s Partner of Horst Lippmann.
Among the jazz greats now came the heroes of rock and pop.
Rau brought the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan to Germany and was promoting many German
stars like Udo Lindenberg and Peter Maffay. In 2004 he retired from active business and wrote a book about his
exciting life with the stars ( "50 years Backstage").
"With the death of Fritz Rau, the music world has lost the father of popular music," said Michael Russ, president of the
Association of German Concert directorates. Rau was a personality, "which dominated the industry for decades, has indeed formed".
he had two factors to thank for its success, believes Georg Stein, whose publisher (Palmyra) Raus autobiography
was published: "On the one hand he loved the music beyond measure." Secondly, he has benefited from his legal training.
"He was a very complex man: edgy, bulky, humorous, and choleric His nickname was Ayatollah Choleri.."
Mick Jagger (Sänger der Musikgruppe 'Rolling Stones'), Fritz Rau (re.), Karikatur, 'Music-Hall', Worpswede, Niedersachsen, Deutschland, Europa, Sänger, Konzert-Veranstalter,
Credit: Peter Bischoff
Fritz RAU umgeben von Maffay und Jagger (Rolling Stones)
Fritz Rau took the 1982 Rolling Stones Olympic Stadium in Munich. (Source: dpa)
Whether Mick Jagger and Peter Maffay, Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix and Tina Turner - he knew and made ??the stars of his time, when he offered them a concert stage.
Links Peter Maffay, rechts Mick Jagger: Unter Rockmusikern fühlte sich Fritz Rau am wohlsten. Musik war nicht nur ein Geschäft für ihn.
Mick Jagger called him "The godfather of us all" (Our all Pate). For Al Jarreau he was "Everybody's papa" (Our all Papa):
The concert promoter Fritz Rau was for many musicians not only business partners, but friends or even family member. Although
he called his autobiography "50 years Backstage", Rau was even a front figure. He died in the city Taunus Kronberg. That it health
last not the best around, stood him was known. For the exact cause of death his daughter was saying only: "Well, he was 83."
The first open-air
At the 6000 concerts Fritz Rau organized. The list of stars who he took to Germany is so long that it is beyond any text. Actually,
it's more the case that hardly a prominent name missing: Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, Tina Turner and Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald
and Miles Davis, David Bowie and "Queen", Madonna and Prince, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart, Udo Lindenberg and Udo Jürgens.
Almost born in Pforzheim son of a blacksmith lawyer would have. As the jazz fan in Heidelberg organized first jazz concerts
in the 50s, he joined the business.
In 1964 he founded with Horst Lippmann, the concert agency Lippmann + Rau, soon no one was passing at the world. Rau invented new formats,
organized the first large open-air concerts and rented special trains to bring fans to the concerts.
In 1989, then the company merged with rival Marcel Avram of Mama Concerts Mama Concerts & Rau. The Corporate crashed when Avram was
arrested early 90s because of tax evasion. Rau retired in 2004 back from the business. He wrote his memoirs and became an
honorary professor. He spent his final years in a retirement home in the Taunus. The urn burial would take place in the
immediate family, Raus daughter said now available on request. It will however give "in a few weeks" a public memorial.
Rau is survived by two adult children, he was married twice.
"Stars are born, not made," Raus was foreign exchange. He acknowledged working with him was not easy, "because I have occasionally,
say, prone to failures regarding my volume". He did not go on holiday 30 years old, "because I have experienced in my professional enough,"
he said at his 65th birthday, when he is far thought of retirement.
Political opinion
Rau had clear political beliefs. He supported the Greens and the peace movement, and he refused to organize concerts for "right" bands.
"He never sleeps", Joan Baez said in "50 Years Backstage" on the tour manager. "If Fritz ran up against a wall, then wiggled the"
recalled Peter Maffay. His 80th birthday celebrated Rau 2500 guests and many prominent wishers in Frankfurt's Alte Oper.
In the eulogy on him it was then that he had "never been a shark in" Shark Tank "of show business itself. But he was as clever as a shark. "Rau have" love, perfection, creativity and cleverness "interconnected.[i"]
I met Fritz Rau twice. He had such an extraordinary aura, you could feel and
see that music history surrounded him. Like Mick Jagger once said:
"He's the godfather of us all. Rock'n'Rau forever!".
RIP, Fritz. You were a very special person!" -Meise[/i]
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