10August
Back to Germans Have The Best Hits, and it's Modern Talking. Songwriter Dieter Bohlen and singer Thomas Anders began working together in 1983, and had their first hit You're my heart, you're my soul
the following year. They did have one British hit, Brother Louie
, a top tenner in 1986. Creative tensions split the group in 1987, but solo careers bombed, and they came back together in 1998. They had hits including Atlantis is calling (SOS for love)
, and the group's Good girls go to heaven (bad girls go everywhere)
was covered by the Teutonic rock star Meat Loaf.
Our chosen Modern Talking track is from 2003, and is entitled TV makes the superstar
. It was written as a reaction to Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar
, the local version of Pop Idle
. It spend two weeks as Germany's number two; the first behind future Eurovision contestants Tatu, the latter behind DSDS winner Alexander.
