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Great mourning for "Mampe": German rock legend died the day before Christmas Eve

2021-12-28T07:15:31.152Z


Great mourning for "Mampe": German rock legend died the day before Christmas Eve Created: 12/28/2021, 8:09 AM From: Armin T. Linder The band electra with Peter “Mampe” Ludewig (4th from left) on a photo from 2008. © Andreas Weihs / Imago Mourning for Peter "Mampe" Ludewig: As his band colleagues report, the German rock legend died the day before Christmas Eve. Dresden - The East German rock s


Great mourning for "Mampe": German rock legend died the day before Christmas Eve

Created: 12/28/2021, 8:09 AM

From: Armin T. Linder

The band electra with Peter “Mampe” Ludewig (4th from left) on a photo from 2008. © Andreas Weihs / Imago

Mourning for Peter "Mampe" Ludewig: As his band colleagues report, the German rock legend died the day before Christmas Eve.

Dresden - The East German rock scene is mourning a legend: Peter "Mampe" Ludewig is dead. He was one of the founding members of the GDR band electra, which broke up in 2015 and caused a sensation with its slightly different music.

"Electra became known for their special style of music," writes

Ostbeat.de

.

“Because the group combined classical music with electronic adaptations.

But the band also made an impression on the fans with their singing and particularly long instrumental solos. "

Peter “Mampe” Ludewig: He was a founding member of the band electra

Now Peter Ludewig's voice is forever mute. He was 80 years old. His death is confirmed in a statement on the band's official Facebook page. It is signed with the words: "Bernd Aust and his friends from electra say goodbye MAMPE!" Bernd Aust was the front man and, like Peter Ludewig, a founding member of the band.

"His former band members from electra, his friends and fans mourn the loss of 'Mampe' Peter Ludewig," says the statement.

“Peter Ludewig was the drummer and singer of the ART ROCK FORMATION electra since it was founded in 1969. As a controversial artist, he was the source of ideas for extraordinary electra songs, such as 'The Green Donkey'.

His explosive vocal interludes, integrated into his extraordinary playing style on the timbales, were always high points in electra's concerts. "The band's biggest hit is probably" Never Before ", here a recording that is said to come from the eighties:

Peter “Mampe” Ludewig is dead: colleagues and fans mourn the loss of the rock legend

Ludewig died the day before Christmas Eve.

“Our thoughts are with his wife Gisela and his children and grandchildren,” it continues.

The fans also mourn: “He was really great and yet humble” and “So the idols of my youth go one after the other.

RIP Peter “, they write.

Fans also recently had to say goodbye to a member of the legendary Smokie.

(lin)

Source: merkur

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