Rockpalast

Rockpalast
Created by	WDR
Country of origin	Germany
Release
Original network	WDR
Original release	1974

Rockpalast (Rock Palace) is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). Rockpalast started in 1974 and continues to this day. Hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed on Rockpalast. Some acts were recorded for broadcast and for retail sale. All-night marathon shows called “Rock Night” (Rocknacht) were produced once or twice a year from 1977 through 1986 and simulcast throughout Europe via the Eurovision network of TV broadcasters.^[1] Rockpalast is involved in several German rock and underground music festivals, once sponsoring Bizarre Festival.

The founder and long-time producer of Rockpalast is Peter Rüchel.^[2]

Selected list of performers

Not all of these acts were recorded and broadcast. A list of the recorded gigs is readable on the Rockpalast homepage.^[3]

R.E.M. performing on Rockpalast at the Grünspan Club in Hamburg on November 2, 1998.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Airbourne Alter Bridge Apocalyptica Joan Armatrading Aswad Bad Religion Band of Heathens Band of Horses BAP The Beards (Australian band) The Beat (British band) Adrian Belew Big Sugar The Black Crowes Black Francis Black Uhuru Blues Pills Joe Bonamassa David Bowie The Brew The Brian Jonestown Massacre Edgar Broughton Band Jackson Browne Jack Bruce Roy Buchanan Mr. Bungle Eric Burdon Burning Spear Paul Butterfield John Cale Carmel Paul Carrack Harry Chapin Roger Chapman Cheap Trick Neneh Cherry Chicago Tim Christensen Chumbawamba Jimmy Cliff George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic Cold Chisel Colour Haze Ry Cooder Elvis Costello and the Attractions The Cult Deftones Dire Straits Dirty York Dizzy Mizz Lizzy Doro Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show dredg Duran Duran Ian Dury and The Blockheads Earth, Wind and Fire Echo & the Bunnymen Edguy Einstürzende Neubauten Electric Light Orchestra[4] Enter Shikari Epica Every Time I Die John Fahey Faith No More Fleet Foxes The Flower Kings Robben Ford The Frames Fun Boy Three Peter Gabriel Rory Gallagher

Garbage Golden Earring Gov't Mule Grateful Dead[5] Grobschnitt Guns N' Roses Guru Guru Nina Hagen Peter Hammill Roy Harper Heaven & Hell HIM Bruce Hornsby Ben Howard Hundred Seventy Split Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson In Flames INXS Joe Jackson The Jam Rick James and The Stone City Band Al Jarreau Jimmy Eat World Mickey Jupp Michael Karoli The Kelly Family B.B. King King's X Kings of Convenience Kings of Leon The Kinks Leo Kottke Kyuss L7 Lagwagon Ronnie Lane from The Faces Jonny Lang Alvin Lee and Ten Years After Level 42 Huey Lewis and the News Aynsley Lister Little Feat Little Steven The Lords of the New Church Louisiana Red Lynyrd Skynyrd Machine Head Madness Manic Street Preachers Bob Marley & The Wailers The Mars Volta John Martyn Carolyne Mas Dave Matthews Band Meat Loaf Men at Work Natalie Merchant Steve Miller Mink DeVille Mondo Generator Van Morrison Mother's Finest Muse My Chemical Romance Gianna Nannini Nena NOFX Ted Nugent Sinéad O'Connor The Offspring Mike Oldfield Oomph! OTHERKIN Papa Roach Ian Parker

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Phish Point Blank The Police Porcupine Tree Pretenders The Pretty Things Primus Public Image Limited Queens of the Stone Age R.E.M. Radiohead Rainbow Rammstein Marion Raven[6] Red Hot Chili Peppers Return To Forever Rockpile Linda Ronstadt Todd Rundgren Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels Saint Jude David Sancious Michael Schenker Group Screaming Trees Shinedown Silverchair Simple Minds Siouxsie and the Banshees Smashing Pumpkins Patti Smith The Smiths The Outlaws Social Distortion Sonic Syndicate Sonic Youth Soundgarden Southside Johnny Spirit Spock's Beard Stiff Little Fingers Stranglers Stray Cats Streetwalkers[7] Talking Heads Mick Taylor Tears for Fears Téléphone Them Crooked Vultures Therapy? Thin Lizzy Thumb Trust Turbonegro Eddie Turner U2 UB40 UFO Midge Ure Van der Graaf Generator Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Tom Waits[8] Weather Report Weezer The Who Wille and the Bandits Wilco Ray Wilson Johnny Winter Wire XTC ZZ Top

Notes

1. Michael Marsch. "Rockpalast Archiv - Rocknächte 1977 - 1986". Rockpalastarchiv.de. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
2. Michael Marsch. "Rockpalast Archiv - Peter Rüchel Eclipsed 2004". Rockpalastarchiv.de. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
3. http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/rockpalast/bands/index.html
4. "Electric Light Orchestra "Live - The Early Years" for the first time on DVD - #AltSounds". Hangout.altsounds.com. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
5. With an appearance by the Flying Karamazov Brothers
6. First full show with backing band in Germany
7. Michael Marsch. "Rockpalast Archiv - Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers 1975". Rockpalastarchiv.de. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
8. "Tom Waits - Rockpalast 1977 01 Step Right Up". StumbleUpon. 1977-04-18. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

External links

• Official website (German)
• Westdeutscher Rundfunk (German)
• Rockpalast-Archiv Unofficial archive website
• Rockpalast at the Internet Movie Database
• Rockpalast-Fans Unofficial fansite
• Rockpalast on Last.fm user group with free radio station