Alphaville - Big In Japan (Flashlights, )

FLASHLIGHTS, OR HOW BOB DYLAN SENT US AN ANGEL Marian Gold on Alphaville’s very first TV appearance on the ZdF TV show “Flashlights“. If you want to step into the limelight for the first time in your life with a few decent songs, and suddenly the world that previously ignored you is spinning like a carousel gone mad, then a prime-time TV date doesn’t stand out that much in all the confusion. And as this date becomes more and more prominent among all those radio interviews, clothes shopping sessions, pages of contract blahblah, third-class hotel rooms and sanctimonious tartuffs, who wouldn’t have lent you a euro a few months ago, you start to worry. None of us had the faintest idea of all the promotional gimmicks it takes to catch the eye and interest of the public in a sea of competing cheap-Jacks. Landing this gig was a unique opportunity that we couldn’t afford to blow. Did we have stage fright? Yes, we did. During the rehearsals, the three and a half meters from the Japanese