adoration of a girl

CAROLINE

The Story behind „Caroline“

This song was written in 1989 when I was in love with a girl I regularly met at my favourite club, Poeblo, on Karlsplatz in Vienna. Together with her friend Petra, she was always my personal highlight in the club. The way she performed prompted me to write a song for her. We were also good friends and often talked for hours, but unfortunately it was never enough for a kiss or a relationship. I was still far too shy for that back then. The song was very well received by my band Staccato at the time and we also played it successfully at the Austrian band competition popodrom. Unfortunately, I soon lost sight of Caroline, but the song stayed with me as a reminder of her. 

In December 2024, a coronavirus infection forced me to quarantine for a week. I used this time to revisit the song and produce it again using modern means.
Electronically with Ableton Live and Protools. It has always been my passion to find cool new sounds to give songs their own character. In this digital world, however, I was lacking analogue instruments and so I was able to win over my band colleague at the time, Wolfgang Laab, who by then had gained national success (Christl Stürmer, Alf Poier, Manuel Ortega, Gernot Pachernigg, Gimme5, The real Stardust Babies, etc.) and international experience in the USA with Peter Wolf (Frank Zappa, Commodors, Cliff Richard, etc.). For me, Wolfgang was always the Austrian Steve Lukather from Toto. His sound, his way of playing is simply brilliant and suits the song. 

Caroline herself had never heard the song, but her best friend at the time, Petra Suk (Suki), who herself had a very successful career with the band Two In One. (Golden record, top positions in the charts).

The song Caroline was completed in January 2025 and will be released in February on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Instagram & Facebook, TikTok, TikTok Music (Beta), Resso, Luna, YouTube Music, Amazon. com, Pandora, Deezer, TIDAL, iHeartRadio, ClaroMusica, Saavn, Anghami, KKBox, Boomplay, Snapchat, NetEase, Tencent, Pretzel, TouchTunes, Audiomack, Yandex Music (Beta), Qobuz, Joox, Kuack Media Group (Beta), as well as many smaller providers via MediaNet, through to Dubset and other services. 

This release closes a circle for me – a song that began as a love song over three decades ago now shines in new splendour and brings the magic of the past into the present.