CRY FREEDOM

Rudi’s first (female) fan was his mother, who sang Elvis songs to him and used wooden spoons to drum along with him as his voice was already astounding at the tender age of 12-years and when he was just 14-years old, Rudi decided to make singing his career, despite considerable parental protests. “First of all I must learn a worthwhile trade” Rudi decided, which took him into lithographic work, a trade that has been swallowed up by computers in the meantime but he only studied for a short while, as he was already working on the stage at the age of 15 and that is where he has stayed there for more than 40 years – with both guitar and microphone. His “Teenie-bands” were called “Soulflower” and “St.James Assocation”, a beat-party asset for Fürth, his home-town. It was here that Rudi got to know a drummer called Klaus Braun-Hessing and read more...