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SpaceAge-Band Spotnicks singen „My Bonnie is over the ocean“


(Dailymotion Direktbonnie, via Popmoderne)

Vier Herren in Raumanzügen singen Anfang der 1960er „My Bonnie is over the ocean“. Hier gibt es noch viel mehr Videos mit den Spotnicks, sie sind immer noch unterwegs auf Tour und haben eine offizielle Website, auf der man durch die Artworks sämtlicher Platten browsen kann. Ich bin ja sowieso für mehr Space Age Bands und was machen Sigue Sigue Sputnik heute eigentlich? Snip von Wikipedia:

The Spotnicks are an instrumental rock group from Sweden, who were formed in 1961. They were famous for wearing “space suit” costumes on stage, and for their innovative electronic guitar sound. They have since released 42 albums, selling more than 18 million records, and still tour.

The Spotnicks originated from “Rock-Teddy and The Blue Caps”, a group formed in 1957 in Gothenburg by guitarist Bo Winberg (born 27 March 1939), with Bo Starander (born 11 March 1942) (rhythm guitar), and Björn Thelin (born 27 June 1942) (bass guitar). In 1958 they added Ove Johansson (drums), changed their name to “The Frazers”, and began playing regularly in local clubs. They signed a recording contract in 1961, and changed their name to “The Spotnicks”, a play on the Russian satellite Sputnik as suggested by their manager, Roland Ferneborg. Starander was later known as Bob Lander.

Workers Wear Space Suits in New Gas-Filled Factory

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EXOTIC metals that can survive the heat barrier of hypersonic flight soon will be mill-worked at a white-hot 4,000 degrees in a forbidding atmosphere of argon gas, similar to that inside an incandescent light bulb.

Men working in this out-of-the-world gas-chamber metal mill will wear “space suits,” trailing umbilical cords plugged into air-breathing and exhaust manifolds.

Should a lifeline break, a man might live a minute or two—as helpless as if he were out in space or under water without an oxygen supply. Crash doors will provide a quick escape. But in case he is injured or some obstacle gets in the way, he will have an emergency air capsule to keep him alive until rescue comes.

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