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by Carola Alge "The family is suffering from persecution mania..." The response to the "Meet and greet" promotion with Chris de Burgh of our newspaper was huge: We received mail from Miami in the USA and from many parts of Germany. Baris Evran is a fan of the Irishman since 1988. "I have all of his posters, CDs and am his biggest fan from Turkey", the 30 year old man from Istanbul writes, who has lived in Oberhausen and Hannover and now lives in Florida. He belongs to a Turkish fanclub, whose members diligently exchange e-mails about Chris de Burgh. One of the four winners of our "Meet and greet" before the concert on July 17 on the Lingen Marketplace is Joachim Hock. The 45 year old has seen Chris de Burgh for the first time in 1983 during a TV report in Hesse TV, which broadcasted a portrait of Chris de Burgh. One year later the self-employed network manager and private lecturer visited the first concert of the artist, "Man On The Line". Ever since then the man from Lingen is a fan of de Burgh. For him every visit of a de-Burgh-concert is "a journey through the world of emotions and moods". Hock loves the change of songs of the Irishman - sometimes "High On Emotion", sometimes "sad and melancholy like during 'Moonlight And Vodka'". At the end of each concert "Chris de Burgh hasn't just given his best, but everything", Hock says, who is sure: "Lingen will be a great evening too." There he hopes "to finally get an autograph on my concert poster from the 'Man On The Line' tour." And maybe he can sing the song "Carry Me" together with the artist in Lingen. He already had the pleasure to do this in the "Alte Oper" in Frankfurt. "Much better than singing together" the man from Lingen finds the chance for a short personal conversation with Chris de Burgh. He wants to use the opportunity to hear "why he doesn't perform anymore with his old band, with which he was very successful". Other winner of the meeting are Edeltraud Wessels from Lingen, who "associates very beautiful memories with the song 'Lady In Red'", and Ilka Frerich who loves the music of the singer since 1984. The fourth winner is Doris Neerfries. She is an absolute fan of Chris de Burgh, has just visited his concerts in Bochum and Krefeld. "My family members are suffering from persecution mania, for when they enter the house there is usually a CD from him playing. When they enter the car, there is his music in the tape player, and there are some pictures from him in the house - 13 concert posters in the laundry in the basement.", the 36 year old tells smirkingly. But she only became a "really excessive fan" when she got by chance a ticket to his concert in the arena Oberhausen in October 2002 for his "Timing Is Everything" concert. "Since then it has happened. I have completely lost it", the mother of two confesses, who already stood in front of Chris de Burgh briefly once in November last year. Together with other fans of a mailing list she had serenaded the singer during an internal soundcheck for his 20th stage anniversary in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle. That she will now meet him again in Lingen, she finds more than great. "I can't believe it. That is great, that is madness", was her first reaction, when she heard of her winning. |
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