#HAPPY BIRTHDAY TILL LINDEMANN

[maxxiesutton]

still the 4th here where i am so

HAPPY 62ND BIRTHDAY TILL

this is the best drawing of him ive ever done lmao

[endlich-allein]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TILL ❤️✨

Till Lindemann, 04.01.1963

"I think it’s normal to express yourself in different ways over the years. When you’re young and you start a band, you put all your energy into that band. Music, stage shows, artwork, everything. Today everything is better divided so that each of us can concentrate our energies elsewhere. But my priority will always remain Rammstein. Rammstein is my life. My job, my family." (Gif by cogitoergoboom.it. Quote from Sonic Seducer, May 2015.)

Happy birthday to my lighthouse in the night ✨ Thank you for your light, your generosity, your talents and your kindness 🙏🏻 May this day be sweet and pleasant for you ☀️ Love you ❤️

[morgana-lefay]

Happiest of birthdays, my dear Till! It's been a long way since June 2023, struggling and finally accepting this infatuation. You are a complicated and strange man, but also, I want to believe, a kind, creative and loving one. Your music makes me very happy, even if I don't understand all the words, but I can most definitely feel it all! I wish I could give you a big hug one day and tell you how much I love you (I'm pretty sure I would just freeze like an idiot, though). In the meanwhile, I'm just happy I get to see you in a few months.

Happy 62, big guy! 🖤

[anwiel13]

Happy birthday Schneider 💜

Prague 11.5.2024

📹 By Elikaval

[pavelusha]

Happy Birthday!!!

The best grandfather in the world ✨🤘

Tgk: https://t.me/meowlusha26

[marimayscarlett]

'Rosenrot' turns 19 years old today 🎶💿

On the 28th of October, 2005, the fifth studio album 'Rosenrot' was released, about a year after 'Reise Reise'. The band worked with their usual producer Jacob Hellner in the El Cortijo Studio in Spain as well as in the Teldex Studio in Germany on this album, yet it has to be mentioned that the recording process for 'Rosenrot' was significantly shorter than usual and according to Till, the band felt kind of rushed. Seven songs were already recorded during the sessions for 'Reise Reise' and were left in their original form: Rosenrot, Wo bist du, Mann gegen Mann, Zerstören, Ein Lied, Feuer und Wasser and Hilf mir. New songs for this album developed out of already existing demos, and thus Benzin, Spring, Stirb nicht vor mir and Te quiero puta! were born and added to the list.

To the press, this album was announced under the title 'Reise Reise II'/'Reise Reise (Vol. 2)' in a posting on the official Rammstein website on the 24th of June 2005: Good news: Rammstein are already working on a musical successor, which is expected to be called "Reise, Reise ( Vol.2)". The management explained as follows: "After the production phase of the last album, there were many songs that had not found a place on 'Reise, Reise' at the time for dramaturgical reasons, but could now be finalised. It's nothing unusual . Just as 'Ohne Dich' came from the production time for the album 'Mutter', numerous songs have been waiting for more than a year to be perfected and are now to see the light of day. It's up to the band alone to decide which ones to release."

On the 17th of August 2005, the band decided on naming the album 'Rosenrot' instead and a day later, on the 18th of August, this was officially announced. The first song which was presented to the public was 'Benzin', which was performed by the band at a concert at the Wulheide, Berlin, on the 23rd of June, 2005.

To present the full album to world of music journalism, the band held an event in Paris to showcase the album through a sightseeing tour. Journalists were given a discman with the album and headphones during a bus tour through the city, covering the route from Place de la Bastille to the Seine riverside, where they could board a ship and interview the band members about the album.

Here's an interview with Olli and Paul in Paris. Olli talks for example about how 'Rosenrot' is a calmer record than 'Reise Reise' and Paul mentions how much sex and sexuality plays a major role in their music and in music in general:

Eight days before the official release of the album, listening samples (about one minute each) of six songs from the album were released online as part of the promotion for the album. These listening samples were also released as a CD.

The album debuted at number 1 on the German album charts in its first week and stayed in the Top 100 for a total of 41 weeks. Over 200,000 copies were shipped, reaching platinum status in the first week. It also achieved platinum status in Switzerland and gold in Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Finland. 'Rosenrot' reached number 23 in the "Top 50 Albums" chart of 2005.

As a cover, the band reused the Japanese cover of the 'Reise Reise' album. It depicts the US wind-class icebreaker (USS Atka) during an expedition under the leadership of commander Buster E. Toon; the picture was taken on 13 March 1960 at McMurdo Station, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, after it arrived there in a howling blizzard one day earlier. The print on the CD as well as on the DVD (with live perfomances of 'Reise Reise', 'Mein Teil' and 'Sonne') is designed to look like a hatchway of a ship.

The promotional pictures were taken by Mat Hennek. Flake had fallen ill with Mumps, which already prevented him from attending the Paris promotion, and as a result, he was also unable to participate in the photo shoot. He was replaced by his brother, which is why "Flake" (his brother) is always turning his face away from the camera or why it's hidden behind sunglasses or in the shadows.

Some more little facts about the album and quotes from promotional interviews:

Paul on the song 'Zerstören': We are basically holding up a mirror. The lyrics we written during the war in Iraq. We were interested in the parallels between a marauding pack of kids after a game of soccer who roam the street and destroy everything, and states which invade other states and destroy everything there. Our main thought was that there is no difference. We perceived it as boldness, that the Americans simply bomb a country and get away with it. At the moment George W. Bush is nothing else but another disgusting hooligan.

Olli on 'Mann gegen Mann': We don’t want to discriminate against gays. The song is more for gays. We simply wanted to take the weight off the topic and make it more natural.

as well as on the album name and cover: Actually, the album should be called 'Reise, Reise Vol. 2’. We quickly forgot about that title. Since we see the new album as an independent one, we needed a new title. That was a bit unfortunate, since the cover was already finished. So the ship on the cover picture is now called 'Rosenrot’ and everyone can think about what it stands for. Opposites? The cold world? Where has the love gone? No idea. But the ship does not symbolize the now and us as a band.

Till on the idea behind 'Benzin': One day, I actually watched a movie called Love Liza. It’s the story of a guy who loses his wife and his job and gradually becomes addicted to gasoline. He goes to gas stations and smells the pump. It’s a sort of tragicomedy. Many films have been made about addicts, but never about gasoline sniffers. I think that was the starting point for this song.

Olli on recording the album in Berlin: It’s the first time we’ve recorded in Berlin, at home, and I’m not sure, looking back, that it was a good idea. Our families living nearby, we might tend to look at our watches whenever we had a break : What am I doing ? Do I take the opportunity to drop by home ? As a result, we were necessarily less focused and it was almost impossible for us to be there 100%.

Schneider on 'Rosenrot' as the end of an era:  For me, this is the closing of a chapter for the band. Everybody needs a break, they need a bit of distance from this band and time to look forward and ask, ‘Where am I?’ And, ‘What do I want to do?’ We need to find other ways of being inspired.

additional sources: rammwiki, Rammstein history, affenknecht.com, navy.mil

[rammingthestein]

🔥 ON THIS DAY🔥

26 APRIL 2019

The music video for Radio is released. Lyrically, the song addresses the cultural situation of the German Democratic Republic, where listening to Western radio stations and their music was illegal.

People would use their radios to pick up stations on the western side of the border, which was often their only connection to the rest of the world, in secret.

The video opens with a radio announcement (absent in the album version) that says "Achtung, Achtung. Hier ist Berlin Königs Wusterhausen und der Deutsche Kurzwellensender. Wir senden Tanzmusik", which translates as "Attention, Attention. This is Berlin Königs Wusterhausen and the German shortwave transmitter. We're broadcasting dance music". Königs Wusterhausen is the site where the first German radio transmitter was built in 1920. In 1933, it was seized by the Nazis to broadcast propaganda. After the Reunification of Germany, it became a museum.

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

Till's birthday!

In honor of Till's birthday today some of my favorite of his performances ❤️

Happy Birthday Till ❤️

[nicorobin-poneglyth]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TILL!

I didn't have enough time to do a drawing like i did for paul but i still managed to celebrate in a way!

[tilllindemannobsessed]

It’s this beautiful man’s birthday today!!

[faketypefan]

Happy birthday,Till! 🎉💥

I wish nothing but happiness and health for this man

I didn't have enough time to do a drawing so I decided to make him into a marshmallow???

[endlich-allein]

Happy Birthday Joe Letz ❤️🎂

[r4mmsarah]

Happy birthday to this man, happy birthday Till🖤❤️ we love you, remember that. Wish you better year than the last one, wish you luck and health 🙏🏻❤️

With all love

~S

📌first three pictures are from instagram user @manuelmortl

•the rest is credit to the right owner!

[anwiel13]

Butcher Till, his main meal Flake and dessert Paul

Brussels 2023

[ultra-francesca-mercury]

Happy Birthday to RAMMSTEIN's frontman Till Lindemann, born on January 4th, 1963

[rammingthestein]

🎈 Happy 27th birthday to the Sehnsucht album, released on this day in 1997 (25/08/1997) 🎂

 It went #1 in the German and Austrian album charts in the second week after its release and it is the only album entirely in German to be certified platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) It was released in the US on 13 January 1998 and while it's Rammstein's second album, it was the first one released in the US and was promoted as such.

The album was initially scheduled to be released in April. But "due to small delays in the production process," it was rescheduled for the end of May. From May it was rescheduled again to August. In an interview with Sonic Seducer, Olli was asked about rescheduling the album:

"We had problems with mixing, so that postponed the release by 2 months, and because it is better not to release records in the summer, we decided to release the album at the end of the summer in August. There were only mixing problems and the cover design that were still outstanding. That's why we released a single to bridge the time a bit."

Polish cassettes of the album included a short Polish introduction to the album, spoken by Till:

Hallo! Cześć jesteśmy Rammstein, pozdrawiamy całą Polskę i życzymy wielu miłych wrażeń w słuchaniu naszej nowej płyty pod tytułem "Sehnsucht".

Hello! Hi, we are Rammstein. We're greeting all the Polish and we wish you a lot of nice experiences while listening to our new album called "Sehnsucht".

The fork glasses that Till Lindemann wears are the same ones used to design the cover of the Scorpions LP "Blackout"