Günther Sigl, co-founder and singer of the Spider Murphy Gang, is an incredible 75. Today his songs would probably be castigated on Twitter.
Some reports come as a complete surprise. For example, Günther Sigl’s 75th birthday on Tuesday. Yes, the frontman of the Spider Murphy Gang is actually already grandpa’s age, which is hard to believe. It’s not so long ago that as a child you used to embarrass your parents terribly because you wanted to know what brothels were and who or what those flat feet out there in front of the big city were. Yes, despite the radio boycotts, you kind of kept listening to “Scandal in the Restricted District” without even having the slightest idea what it was actually about. “Turn off the rubbish” was the only answer I got.
And also the other songs should only be understood much later. As a primary school student, how should you know what it means to tear open a super rabbit and why a frog could get stuck in your throat and mushrooms in your knees, just because a certain Gabi wore a “paper-thin negligee” (this word was also unknown to the parents) wore So the kid just made up his own mind, imagining brothels as places where people laugh a lot – most likely at funny-looking guys with mushrooms growing out of their legs and frogs jumping out of their mouths.
Today, of course, the little ones would find out within seconds what the Spiders wanted to tell them using their smartphones. And Sigl might not have become a rock star at all, but the reason for huge shitstorms in the very woken Twitter community. Because of “two cigarettes in the school toilet” he would have all the health, teacher and above all parent associations on his neck and because of Rosi everyone else anyway.
But he hasn’t. Because he wrote said songs in the distant 1980s, Sigl enjoys grandfathering, so to speak. Mayor Dieter Reiter officially congratulated the town hall umschau, and one searched in vain for people on Twitter who were outraged by old white spider men. Instead, there were plenty of reminiscences to “Skandal…” because it slipped to number one on the charts exactly 40 years ago, as well as congratulations to Sigl. Because he apparently does not have his own Twitter account, it is unclear whether he even noticed it. They were sent to him retrospectively in this way.