Rockpalast

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For the Porcupine Tree album, see Rockpalast (download double CD).

Rockpalast is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station WDR. Rockpalast started in 1977 and continues to this day. Hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed at Rockpalast, and their performances were recorded; many are availabel through DVD or videotape through their website and from retailers like Amazon.com.

A Rockpalast movie was released in 1974.

The show once sponsored a Bizarre Festival, but that has been discontinued.

[edit] List of performers

A partial list of the musical artists who have performed at Rockpalast, and some of whose performances were recorded and broadcast, include:

• Dire Straits
• Little Feat
• Black Uhuru
• Mother's Finest
• Rory Gallagher
• Michael Karoli
• Guru Guru
• Rainbow
• Thumb
• David Sancious
• Van der Graaf Generator
• R.E.M.
• Wire
• Peter Gabriel
• The Pretenders
• Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• Chumbawamba
• Porcupine Tree
• Muse
• Stevie Ray Vaughan

[edit] See also

• Rockpalast (download double CD)
• Westdeutscher Rundfunk

[edit] External links

• Official website (in German only)

• Rockpalast Archiv, English-language, unofficial archive website

• WDR official website

• IMDb entry on Rockpalast movie