There are artists whose careers their one super hit has become a curse over time. Poor Tony Christie, for example, had to sing “Show me the way to Amarillo” his entire life as an entertainer. He didn’t even write the beautiful song himself, but Neil Sedaka. His greatest success “Above the Clouds” floats above Reinhard Mey’s – completely self-made – work like a never-rusting crown. When you think of Mey, you always first think of this really great song, but it doesn’t obscure the view of the many other, very different ballads and chansons by the most successful German songwriter. “Above the Clouds” is a powerfully visual and atmospherically charged song about an airfield that uses poetic means to become a runway for wishes and longings. He who sings about gasoline floating in puddles and the rain soaking through his jacket wants to take off himself. Not in fantasy or in an allegorical expansion of the motif, but real and preferably immediately with a propeller plane because he heard that freedom up there must be limitless.
One issue deals with Reinhard Mey’s song “Über den Wolken”. – Media
