Fist bump. Again and again. Gedrange. Three against one. Violent scenes. What is happening?, all france wonders. It is the video of a police operation that leaves stunned and angry.

A music producer is brutally attacked by three police officers at the entrance to his paris recording studio – in the end it is he who ends up in police custody. His luck: a private surveillance camera films the incident. Even president emmanuel macron reacts – saying he is "very shocked". Is that enough?

The shooting of a music video by the rapper kollegah triggered a police operation in frankfurt. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the authorities on sunday.

Witnesses had come forward the day before, because a jewelry store had apparently been robbed with firearms in the city’s railroad station district. However, the alleged crime was a film scene for the music video.

For weeks now, lively disco music has been emanating from the basement of the eltingshaus sports center – usually on tuesday and friday evenings: the abba girls, 15 young women aged 17 to 25, are meticulously preparing for the carnival season. "During the five-year break, there was always talk of reviving the FC show dance group, especially when we saw other dance groups at carnival. Then in 2018 the musical film mamma mia came out, in which the songs fully convinced us. We immediately thought, that would be a motto for carnival, we presented the idea to the girls and they were immediately enthusiastic", the two trainers selina wenzel and vanessa parente explain the reasons for the movement.

Keeping the girls happy was no problem at all, and a good solution had also been found for the dancers who were working or studying away from home: "we filmed videos of the training sessions and posted them in our whatsapp group, and we also occasionally had an additional training session on saturdays, selina tells.

The trees were in the best blood, the sun was laughing. And even the gray rain clouds, which sent a few drops from the sky, could not spoil the last april saturday for the people of allador. For on this day, the new minister of agriculture michaela kaniber came to the thurnau district to personally hand over a demand notice that mayor martin bernreuther had not even dared to dream of.

It was clear that the market town of thurnau would receive funds for the village community center. But how high the funding rate would be was the question. A quantchen hope germinated, when it became known that the minister wanted to come hochstpersonlich to upper franconia. Alladorf has put on everything it has to offer in honor of the minister. The alladorf singing society performed and the thurnau music society played bon jovi, the minister’s favorite band. "I got the marriage proposal from my husband at bon jovi’s", kaniber was pleased.

Remember the "duck dance"?? Remember when, at the beginning of the 80s, even old people squatted down, wiggled their butts and clapped their hands during carnival?? Extremely uncool the party trend came today probably with all, which did not experience the hype themselves. After all, since the instrumental title of the electronica's, there's been a series of other hip dances like "macarena" in the mid-90s, 2002 "the ketchup song" and last year the "gangnam style" of the south korean rapper psy.

Last minute move

On the other side of the globe, a 49-year-old former musician and professional publisher decided last year whether he wanted to enjoy his birthday in silence or whether he wanted to "let it rip" like springsteen should be.
He decides for the "louder" songs on the record version and rehearsed with regional music friends for weeks 50 songs from 50 years, including of course a song of one of his heros! And the song "glory days" from the "boss becomes the emotional center of the birthday concert. "When searching for my favorite song of the year, many beautiful memories were awakened and i realized how strongly music influenced the first half of the century", tells bernd meusel.
One of them is certainly the memory of the boss concert in 1988 in munich, when meusel sang along with the songs in the first row eye to eye every song. "I write (play) the songs only for me! But the songs only become really good when I play them for other people. This is the bond that exists between people and can never be destroyed", as far as bruce springsteen.

Tasted blood

You could possibly say that the "birthday boy" was also has licked blood again and has rediscovered his joy in making music. After the concert for the 50th birthday, which was praised by many sides. Followed by a solo performance for the 50th anniversary. His best friend from his youth with "his" favorite songs. With the formation "easy/die sie" some guest appearances at other events like ramp festival, kronach leuchtet, freischieben or at the city festival followed.
In november the music project "easy/the she xmas band" was launched to liven up the christmas markets in kronach and lichtenfels musically with anglican xmas songs. The band also played these gigs for free and collected a considerable amount for the good cause.
"We learned more from a three-minute record, baby than we ever learned in school" – a line from the song "no surrender could be representative for the effect springsteens songs have on his kronach fan. After the performances at the christmas markets, the band members and other regional musicians met regularly for a small musicians' get-together with an exchange of musical ideas.
"But a simple cover band was not to my taste. That's why i brought up the idea of forming a bruce springsteen tribute band", bernd meusel continues. After a few detours I found a powerful band that played "unplugged" in a small line-up with guitar, double bass, piano and small drums" a playlist of songs from springsteen's 45-year career was compiled.
Beautiful performances of "easy springsteen and the E-street friends" open air in kronach and lichtenfels followed and found their interested audience. It was the inventor's intention not only to play selected favorite songs of the boss, but to tell the story behind them and to try to give the listeners a rough insight into the musical life and creative work. "Springsteen doesn't just press his "new" songs like many other musicians do songs on record, to release them then. No, each LP/CD deals with the current
contemporary events such as "the rising from 2002, in which he deals with the terrorist attack in his hometown on 9.11. Conflicts", the fan from kronach, who is not alone in this opinion, says. "Springsteen is by no means mainstream, and of course you can't assume that everyone will immediately understand the lyricism and the message it sends.", says bernd meusel. The song "born in the USA" is a good example of this which is not intended to be a hymn to the country of his birth, as many have suspected.