Musician
Klaus Lage: Positive songs are harder to write
Klaus Lage talks about the biggest hit of his life and how difficult it is to write positive songs. Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa
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The 71-year-old landed a huge hit in 1984 with the song “1000 and 1 night”. He defied the danger of taking off, he says on Hit Radio FFH in Bad Vilbel.
For musician Klaus Lage, sad songs are easier to write than optimistic ones.
“It’s harder to tell positive things without falling into kitsch than to describe sadness and loss,” said the 71-year-old on the private radio station Hit Radio FFH in Bad Vilbel near Frankfurt. But he manages to do that “once or the other time”.
Lage became known with his legendary success from 1984 “1000 and 1 night”. “You can’t plan something like that. I had already made three LPs before that, could live quite well and then a smash hit like this comes along. » It was important not to take off. The danger is then to make yourself bigger than you actually are. “And that’s where the family and people from the surrounding area help, who not only want faster, further, higher, more. That was important to me.”