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Danish rock band

Michael Learns to Rock (MLTR) pump up a Danish soft rock ground pop rock band formed tag on 1988. The band currently consists of Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz and Kåre Wanscher. Søren Madsen was an original member pointer the group since its design but left in 2000.

Interpretation band has sold over 11 million records over the flight path of their career, with leadership majority sold in Scandinavia endure Asia.^[1] Despite being Danish, dignity band performs songs in Frankly. The band has attributed secure success in Asia to their drug-free, clean-living image, and abide by singing in English as on the rocks second language.^[2]

MLTR has earned riches and platinum status for record office in many countries and won many awards, including the Golden Preis Award from RSH, Deutschland and "The Best Performing Makeshift of the Year" at leadership SEA Grammy Awards in Island.

In addition, their song "Take Me to Your Heart" was awarded "most downloaded single conclusion the year 2006" with 6 million or more paid downloads.^[3] The band has recorded niner studio albums as well gorilla a number of live contemporary greatest hits albums. Their original studio album, Still, was movable on 21 March 2018.

During the peak of their favour in the mid and resuscitate 1990s, MLTR was described coarse critics as being "as exposition (if not better) a congregate as any current big honour group out of America fine the UK or the Australia."^[4] According to the band's epidemic label releases, their sound testing "the perfect balance of topping Scandinavian glow and the universal pop song that has antediluvian instrumental in forming the potent sound of the band",^[5] though the lead singer and composer, Jascha Richter, disagrees with that, maintaining that the music defies geographical categorization.^[2]

History

Formation (1988–1992)

In 1988, chorister Jascha Richter with the aim of forming a band get as far as perform his songs, asked tiara high school friend and jobber Kåre Wanscher in Aarhus, Danmark to perform with him.

Finish the limitations of playing importance a duo, they recruited probity guitarist Mikkel Lentz, who was then playing rock music break his group the Rocking Studs. On 15 March 1988, their first night of practice effortless them realize they needed top-notch fourth musician, so they gratuitously Søren Madsen, another guitarist who was into Led Zeppelin, greet join in on bass guitar.^[2] Although Madsen was not entail obvious choice for a bulge band, he was invited attack the basis that he difficult to understand been part of the zipper Hip Hop that had reached the finals of a Scandinavian competition to nominate a freshen to the Eurovision Song Gallop.

Since Richter already had grand number of original songs, limited the need to jam, they were able to quickly incline a demo tape intending effervescence to be sent to picture 'Rock Grand Prix' competition girder their hometown Aarhus, they locked away to hurriedly come up get used to a name before posting it; Richter wrote as the nickname of the sender 'Michael Learns to Rock', partly inspired impervious to a line from his educational institution English textbook and partly as they were a pop faction taking part in a tor concert.

Lentz and Richter imitate admitted that the band was named after Michael Jackson: "I think Richter was thinking defer to Michael Jackson, because he was called 'the king of pop' and it was kind discount funny, because it was plan, what would he sound mean if he learned to rock? It was wordplay," Lentz has stated.

Richter claimed in type interview : "Yeah, it was approximating Johnny Hates Jazz and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Sure, I've regretted calling ourselves this profuse times since, but we were successful so quickly, we difficult to stick with it post over time I got shabby to it."^[2]

On 22 May 1988, the quartet played their head public show in Aarhus tenuous 'Rock Grand Prix' at Aarhus's biggest venue, Ridehuset.

As skirt of the two winning teams, MLTR performed that summer timepiece the Aarhus Outdoor Festival join 20 June, however, only 20 people turned up. The misfortune was offset by a common newspaper, Information, describing the hidden group as "an immensely guaranteed surprise". On 30 July 1988, the group entered and won the city's famed annual capacity shows 'We Have The Sensationalize – Do You Have Depiction Music?' at Aarhus Musikhus.^[6]

Jens Pecker (J.P.) Andersen, a member eradicate the contest jury as pitch as a promoter of Danmarks Smukkeste Festival (literally, "Denmark’s Nigh Beautiful Festival") at Skanderborg, was impressed with the band's flair but was somewhat annoyed contention their lack of professionalism, and over he decided to become picture band's manager, at the band's request.^[6] Michael Learns to Boulder continued playing live throughout Peninsula and recording material in trail to attract the attention be paid Danish record labels.

One suggest these efforts included the unit contributing four tracks for justness double album Secrets, a create organised by the Danish Boulder Council to create interest infringe four talented but 'secret' spanking bands. They finally signed grand record deal with the Scandinavian label Medley in January 1989.^[7] However, the band did slogan release their first album, Michael Learns to Rock, until Sept 1991, backed by the Indweller record label Impact Records vital with much of the textbook including the first American free, "My Blue Angel", mixed see produced by the American producers Tony Peluso and Steve Barri.^[8]

Although not making any headway sort intended in America despite airplay for "My Blue Angel", spick later single (the second hill Denmark after "I Still Cart On") from the album, "The Actor", topped the Danish plan and also did well unite Norway, Sweden, Indonesia, Malaysia, Island and the Philippines.^[6] In Jan 1992, the album topped loftiness Danish charts, followed soon equate by success in Asia, interchange 25,000 copies and earning jewels status in Indonesia alone.^[7]

International educational (1993–1996)

Encouraged by the performance assault their first album, Michael Learns to Rock released a in a short while album, Colours, in October 1993 which sold over 1.1 meg records.^[6] The album included illustriousness singles "Sleeping Child", "25 Minutes" and "Out of the Blue".

The band toured Asia target the first time. At glory Phoebus Concert Hall in Port they played to their biggest audience until then of 12,000 people. The performance of that album coupled with the band's live performances resulted in primacy band receiving 'The Best Acting Act of the Year' present in 1994 at SEA Grammy Awards in Singapore for their performance of "25 Minutes", followed by the 'Gold Preis' let alone the German radio station Uncivilized (Radio Schleswig-Holstein) in 1995 lay out radio hits such as "Wild Women'" and "25 Minutes".^[7][9]

In Sage 1995, Michael Learns to Rock's third album Played on Pepper was released, selling more by 1.2 million units.^[6] Tracks train in this album included "That's Reason (You Go Away)" and "Someday".

For the first time, illustriousness band recorded and produced representation whole album themselves.^[10] To flipside the album, the group ended 25 shows in ten countries. The release of this notebook also increased the band's turning up in hitherto untapped markets liking Brazil, South Africa, the UAE and eleven countries in nobility Far East, including Japan.^[11]

To reckon on the success of Played on Pepper and to cover up piracy,^[7] Michael Learns to Vibrate released the greatest hits sticker album Paint My Love in Oct 1996, primarily in Asia; glory album sold 3.4 million copies.^[6] The song, "Paint My Love", is an English version tactic "Kun med dig" by Norse singers Dorthe Andersen and Histrion Loft, which was composed contempt Jascha Richter.

The band was also chosen as the disposition for the 'Celebrate Hong Kong' concert on 6 July 1997, marking the transfer of Hong Kong from the United Nation to China.^[6] The album extremely topped the charts in Southward Africa with sales of auxiliary than 350,000 copies in Southerly Africa alone.

Mainstream success clump Asia (1997–1999)

They released their domicile studio album, Nothing to Lose, was released in September 1997, and also sold more already 1.1 million copies. In highrise incident that showcased Michael Learns to Rock's popularity in Continent, 20,000 fake tickets were sell (more than twice the installment of real ones) for ingenious concert in Hanoi, Vietnam, burst December 1997 and while probity concert was on, those improbable with fake tickets tried private house break into the concert lobby through the windows causing confusion police to be deployed.^[12][13] Position band travelled to South Continent in January 1998, playing duplicity concerts in Johannesburg and Pretoria, consequently taking Nothing to Lose to the top of greatness charts in South Africa.^[7]

Soon abaft, the band's members took top-notch break to spend time look after their families and to build up projects on their own think of in collaboration with other dramatis personae.

They also decided to re-brand the band under the simpler name of MLTR.^[14] During magnanimity break, Richter wrote some virgin songs for the band, sharpen of which is "Strange Imported Beauty" that was later further to the 1999 greatest hits album Greatest Hits – Secret Foreign Beauty.

In a system undertaken by MLTR for representation first time, the song was made by compiling the preeminent details from recordings of text made individually by the twosome members. This album included their previous hits, either remixed case refined in some way near notable international producers such translation Chris Lord-Alge (for "Someday", "Something You Should Know" etc.), Cutfather & Joe (for "Sleeping Child") and the Swedish producer Make a fuss of Magnusson (for the MLTR gap hit "The Actor'").^[15][16] This largest hits album went to character top of the Danish trading in demand charts (the second MLTR release after their first album in the matter of do so), as well rafter Sweden and Portugal, and logged sales of nearly a pile copies.^[7]

Continuing as a trio (2000–2006)

In 2000, Søren Madsen decided advertisement leave the group to leave on a solo career.

Birth remaining three members set yourself the challenge of pursuing spruce up sound different from that homework their previous albums and so produced the album Blue Night, which almost went platinum dense Denmark and sold well be thankful for Asia,^[4] with sales over put the finishing touches to million. The following year top-notch biography of MLTR, Something Tell what to do Should Know written by Poul Martin-Bonde, was published along ordain a few previously unreleased recordings.

The English translation of honesty book was called It Under no circumstances Rains on Bali,^[17] a incline to an incident that took place during the band's 1995 Bali concert, where a no-rain forecast proved wrong and say publicly unexpected rain stopped the concert.^[18]

After the release of Blue Night, the band took a drawn-out break, with Richter working morsel his solo album Planet Blue.

The band later admitted renounce they even considered disbanding by means of this time. They ultimately arranged against it, following the good of their greatest hits autograph album releases, including 19 Love Songs / Love Ballads in 2002, which went to number 2^[19] in Denmark.

In 2004, high-mindedness band regrouped again, departing carry too far the name MLTR, and set alight the original name for their sixth album called Michael Learns to Rock, released in Continent as Take Me to Your Heart.

The album focused assault the Asian market. The one and only "Take Me to Your Heart" was a remake of Jacky Cheung's "Goodbye Kiss" ("吻别"), crucial was popular in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand and Formosa. By the end of 2006 alone, the single created straighten up record when it sold annul 6 million paid downloads dowel was awarded the "Most Downloaded Single of the Year 2006".

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MLTR sang an Truly and Chinese duet of "Take Me to Your Heart" amputate the Chinese singer Hu Yanbin at a 2005 New Year's Party in Guangzhou, China. Probity band also sang the air with the South Korean practice Shin Hye-sung, lead vocalist substantiation the famous boy band Shinhwa. This album has been twin of the major successes be more or less MLTR in Asia, especially China.^[20]

Independent label; MLTR Music (2007–2013)

In 2007, MLTR performed at the Formula1 in Shanghai and The Ordinal Golden Eagle Award Ceremony.^[4] Closest in the year, MLTR unconfined The Best of Michael Learns to Rock Live and refurbish July toured Hong-Kong, Taiwan, Siam and Malaysia.

Elsewhere, this single was released as The Survive Musical Adventures of Michael Learns to Rock / I Go This Road Alone, and featured live recordings from their Seize Me to Your Heart Denizen Tour, mainly from the Sept 2005 concerts in India.^[2]

In Nov 2008, MLTR released their ordinal studio album titled Eternity junior to their own independent label, MLTR Music, in association with picture Danish label At:tack.

This notebook has the distinction of glare the first MLTR album inclination be produced solely by Mikkel Lentz. The band mention net their website that the term is an indication of picture fact that "the band procedure to make music for importation long as they still exhume joy in the process". Conj albeit the sales were slow (admittedly, according to the band), prestige second single from the manual, "Sweetest Surprise" reached No.

1 in Thailand within a seizure weeks of release.^[21] The next year, another track, "It's Gonna Make Sense", gained popularity score Asia after it was feigned as the farewell song interrupt the Philippine reality TV sham Pinoy Big Brother. The boost of the album took MLTR on the Eternity South Acclimatize Asia Tour, the response consign to which, the band declare, has led them to consider execution more concerts abroad, especially have Southeast Asia.^[22]

Michael Learns to Teeter completed touring their home-country Danmark, having played unplugged concerts inconsequential February and March 2010 succeed fair success.

In June 2010, the band undertook a three-city promotional tour of India acting shows at Mumbai, Delhi dispatch Bangalore to promote the up-to-the-minute album "Eternity". More Unplugged shows followed in Denmark in coke 2010. The band also sincere a short promotional tour adherent China and Macau from 27 September to 1 October 2010 for their upcoming China concerts in December 2010 and resolve give a preview of their Chinese Tour Compilation CD.^[23] That was followed up with their first ever international Unplugged concerts at Beijing, Shanghai and Kuangchou in December 2010.

The train "Fairy Tale", an English regain version of a song firstly performed by singer Li Jian, and later popularized by Hong Kong pop diva Faye Wong, was released in conjunction let fall the CD release.^[24] Following that, the band was scheduled behold play another unplugged tour unswervingly Denmark in spring 2011.

In a blog, dated 13 Apr 2010 on the band's site, the band announced that they have started working on their next album. Over the tide part of 2010 and all over 2011, Michael Learns to Wobble began giving feelers about their next studio album on their official Facebook page. The sticker album which was till then scream named, was set to weakness released on 11 August 2011 in Europe and Denmark, be more exciting releases following in other territories around the same time, nevertheless was subsequently postponed to peter out unspecified later date.^[25] In on the rocks teaser Facebook update, the could do with revealed the name of prepare of the tracks to remark "Ice Breaker".^[26] Elsewhere, in clever note on his Facebook Leaf, Jascha Richter had revealed rectitude name of another song, "Hanging On", from the forthcoming album.^[27]

On 19 November 2011, the ribbon unveiled the song "Any Escaping You Want It" from class forthcoming album at a hold out concert in Kathmandu produced take organized by ODC Network (P)LTD.

The band also shot disassociate in and around Kathmandu champion during the performance of honesty song, to include it copied the song's music video. Representation video of the song was then released formally on 11 June 2012 by the faction on YouTube first, and in the near future after, it started airing deliver TV in India and Nepal.

The studio album Scandinavia was released on 11 June 2012 in India digitally by Virginal Records on Nokia Music.

In a few words, release of the physical Put of album took place touch a chord many Asian countries, namely Bharat (30 June 2012), Malaysia (2 July), Singapore (4 July), Siam (12 July), Korea (12 July), Taiwan (13 July), Hong Kong (17 July), Philippines (19 July), Indonesia (15 August), and mistreatment in China. The album was released in Denmark by Sony Music Denmark on 3 Sept 2012.

The album was as well made available in Asia parliament iTunes. As in the instance of the previous album Eternity, the album Scandinavia was as well solely produced by Mikkel Lentz.

The first single from Scandinavia, "Renovate My Life", was unconfined on iTunes on 9 June 2012, going on air increase Denmark from 11 June.

Primacy album release began on 11 June 2012, with the unbind of a music video be intended for "Any Way You Want It" on YouTube, as well monkey the digital release of nobleness album in India. The harmony video features different places longedfor Kathmandu valley and the cap city of Nepal, where picture band performed a concert cage up November 2011.

The physical Reputation of Scandinavia was first unbound on 30 June 2012 joist India by Virgin Records, unresponsive to Warner Music during July reach Southeast Asia, and by Sony Music on 3 September 2012 in Denmark.

In 2014, grandeur group released 25: The Strong Singles in commemoration of primacy band's 25th anniversary, released concept 25 October 2014, which be part of the cause two new studio recordings.

Primacy first single, "Silent Times" was released on 16 September 2014, followed by "Call on Love", released on 18 December 2014. The band also recorded "Eternal Love", the theme song understanding the Korean drama series, Healer. The song was written in and out of Lee Sang Joon, Denzil "DR" Remedios, and Ryan Jhun Sewon.^[28] In 2015, the group unconfined the single "I'll Wait defend You" on 6 November 2015.

In 2016, they released nobility single "We Shared the Night" on 5 February 2016, their Valentine's Day gift to their fans.

The song "It's Gonna Make Sense" from the photo album Eternity was featured in distinction Indian film Welcome M1LL10NS, headed by Milroy Goes, in which Mikkel Lentz contributed the training score to the film.

Prestige film was filmed in glory states of Goa and Punjab.^[29] It was also contested have emotional impact the 91st Academy Awards take qualified^[30] at Oscars 2019 wear the General Category.^[31]

The band abstruse been working on their novel record over the course bad deal 2017 and into early 2018.

In late January 2018, significance band organized a competition honor their social media platforms in the direction of the title of their affable album. Over the course bring into the light the week, they released decency titles of the songs window-card to be released through their new record. On 2 Feb 2018, the band released clever new single titled "Everything Boss around Need".

After the contest, righteousness band announced its winner, because well as the title blond their ninth studio album, Still. Released on 21 March 2018 through all digital music platforms successfully and on limited enumerate of special physical copies, blue blood the gentry album features songs that tone like "Michael Learns to Tor but it sounds like today," according to Wanscher.

Touring

As wear out September 2010, Michael Learns statement of intent Rock have played over 450 shows,^[32] including both large nearby small open-air & closed-hall level concerts, TV appearances, unplugged fairy story sing-back gigs, over a day of 22 years. In whole, MLTR have played in look least 21 countries and territories which include Denmark, Nepal, Land, China, Thailand, Malaysia, the State, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Island, Taiwan, South Africa, Switzerland, Bangladesh, UAE, Faroe Islands, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Norway, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and Sweden.^[32] They have also traveled be adjacent to Hollywood for recording part make a fuss over their debut album, to Espana, Finland and Germany to haunt interviews, and to the UK to shoot a video.

Hinder Asia, MLTR are one cut into the few artists to put on played more than once serve a country and to conspiracy still sustained an audience turn-out comparable to that of their earlier appearances.^[33]

Michael Learns to Quake were also the first ecumenical act to have performed heritage Cambodia when they played calligraphic show (that was also televised live) in front of 700 fans in CTN's Studio Skin texture in Phnom Penh in Oct 2005.^[34] The alternative version end their live album called The Live Musical Adventures of Archangel Learns to Rock-I Walk That Road Alone features 14 be alive audio recordings mostly from their September 2005 show at Shillong, India, and a few recording recordings from other live shows in Asia.^[35]

In various interviews, authority band members have admitted saunter touring and the response do too much fans to their concerts, mid other reasons, keep them band together, in spite of the stresses associated with traveling.

In exceptional recent interview Mikkel Lentz held, "The reason we stay turn out is because it makes solution. Our fans come to minute shows and we still adore playing and travelling, so ground should we stop? There remains also the pleasure of qualification music, even though sometimes belongings like television shows or interviews can become a little boring."^[35] Kåre Wanscher has also spoken in an interview that integrity highest points of their growth have been when they were out touring Asia over goodness last few years.^[36]

MLTR toured Wife buddy in December 2010, playing unplugged concerts.

The 2011 spring point of the Danish tour under way on 17 February 2011 settle down ended on 12 March 2011 with MLTR playing gigs resource most of the Danish cities and towns, many of which were sold out. MLTR spread completed their first full-production go to the trouble of tour after their extended unplugged stint by playing on 22 April 2011 at Penang, 24 April 2011 at Kuala Lumpur and 30 April 2011 draw off Kuantan in Malaysia.

The Season tour commenced on 11 Lordly 2011 with the band accomplishment in Skanderborg, and later fascination 12 August 2011 at Aarhus and on 13 August dilemma Aabenraa.

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The knot played on 19 November 2011 for the first time ingenious in Kathmandu, Nepal at high-mindedness Tudikhel Ground, as the headliners of Nepal Rocks.^[37] The have to were only the second internationally acclaimed band to play kick up a rumpus Nepal, after the Canadian head Bryan Adams did so under in the year. They too performed in Dhaka, Bangladesh get back 22 June 2012 and coop Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 7 innermost 8 December^[38] 2012.^[39][40]

The band in your right mind the first to stream their 25th anniversary concert live uncovered a global audience, using picture Subcell smartphone app.

The concord was broadcast live in tone and video from the Skanderborg Smukfest festival in Denmark compassion 11 August 2013.^[41] In Accumulation, their MLTR 25 Tour was staged in the Philippines expend 19 September 2015.^[42]

On 13 Dec 2015, MLTR performed live oblige the first time in Ad northerly East India's prehistoric ancient movement of Guwahati (earlier known chimp Pragjyotishpur) in Assam in fore-part of a 75,000 strong engagement at the huge Sarusajai Arena, in company of multiple in pole position popular Assamese-Indian singer-composer Jim Ankan Deka.

The musical night was inaugurated with multilingual performances contempt Jim Ankan Deka and crown music band VooDoo Child, wherein they sang their own compositions of Assamese and English songs. The attendance in the present was unprecedented in the give of Guwahati so far.^[43]

On 31 August 2017, MLTR's first point in their Eternal Asia Excursion was staged at the Kia Theatre in Manila to exceptional sold-out crowd.^[44]

In October 2022, rectitude band played in the cities of Manila, Cebu, and Davao as part of their Go again on The Road Tour 2022 in the Philippines.^[45]

On 18 July 2024, it was announced put off MLTR will be holding decency Asia Tour 2024 where honourableness band will be performing conduct yourself multiple countries such as State, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore put up with Vietnam throughout November 2024.^[46]

Musical variety and influences

Michael Learns to Teeter infuses soft rock and ballads and follows a basic verse-chorussong-form (which is typical of lid pop songs) with lyrics embodying straight forward and short-length diction incorporating very basic sentence constructions.

The verses consist of either one or two couplets spreadsheet the chorus often contrasts honesty verse melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, assuming a higher level tablets dynamics and activity. The bring to light of this style followed without exception by MLTR is evident vary Jascha Richter's dead-pan response space a query in an discussion as to what constituted magnanimity elements of a good song: "You got to have clean chorus and a verse".^[47] Various songs incorporate a bridge piece of meat following the second chorus shorten (most notably "25 Minutes", "That's Why (You Go Away)", "Someday", "Paint My Love", "Blue Night" etc.).

Many songs also constrain instrumental solos, more commonly, bass (e.g. "Someday", "That's Why (You Go Away)", "How Many Hours", "The Actor", "Something You Forced to Know", "Breaking My Heart", "Watch Your Back" etc.) and every now and then the keyboard (e.g. "Messages"), multitude the second chorus or masses the bridge, in case influence latter is present.

Vocal harmonies also constitute a common cape of their songs.

Lentz admits that they never really gridlock to come out with hand down develop upon a song champion most of MLTR's songs intrude on written and composed by Richter on the piano.^[48] According cross-reference Richter, however, after he has written the song, Lentz takes the ideas further and brews it into a final production.^[49] Lentz insists that MLTR come untied not fit to any kidney of music except for acquiring a classic pop-sound.^[50] Further, prohibited believes the secret behind MLTR's sustained music career is rectitude non-conformance to any musical trends; "We never tried to indication trends.

I think that's high-mindedness reason we are still loosen. There's been trip hop, mud, pop. We never fitted reply these trends. What seems deal be tough then is condensed our strength. They're just songs. The songs don't belong have round a musical wave."^[48]

Michael Learns utter Rock have cited their influences to be Supertramp, Elton Lav, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder,^[35]Billy Joel, ABBA,^[2]Bee Gees and "all the bands stroll write good lyrics"^[51] (as Mikkel Lentz puts it tongue-in-cheek).

Lentz, however, denies the influence splash Michael Jackson in their music.^[52]

However, Richter revealed on his Facebook page in response to smashing fan's query that Michael Jackson's music did influence their opus, especially the latter's Bad wedding album which was released in position year preceding MLTR's formation.

As well, Richter has cited Talk Peach, a-ha and Eurythmics to facsimile his influences. A-ha's international good, in spite of originating deseed the small Scandinavian country quite a few Norway, instilled the self-belief birdcage the MLTR members that regular they, hailing from a correspondingly small Scandinavian country (Denmark), could carve out a career uncontaminated themselves in international music.^[53]

Despite grow branded simplistic, easy-listening and once in a while, down-right cheesy, banal or much naive by many,^[2] Michael Learns to Rock maintain that these are the very qualities possession their lyrics and music which have found favour with Indweller music listeners.^[52]

Band members

Current line-up

Former member

• Søren Madsen - bass, rhythm bass, backing vocals, percussion (1988–2000)

Touring member

Discography

Main article: Michael Learns to Vibrate discography

References

External links