Austria3

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Austria3 - from left: Georg Danzer, Rainhard Fendrich, Wolfgang Ambros. While performing, those guys seem to have fun, too.
Austria3 - from left: Georg Danzer, Rainhard Fendrich, Wolfgang Ambros.
While performing, those guys seem to have fun, too.

Austria3[1] was a conglomerate of three Austrian quite individualist singer-songwriters Wolfgang Ambros, Georg Danzer and Rainhard Fendrich.

The group was initiated by Fendrich in order to give one single charity concert in favour of homeless in 1997 (which collected more than ATS 2 million, almost USD 200,000). Their success as a group was overwhelming, and the three individualists showed up on stage as Austria3 from that day on, until they decided to stop that project, which they announced on June 10, 2006. Their last concert was given at Altusried, Germany, on July 26, 2006. However, at Georg Danzer's comeback concert in Vienna on April 16, 2007, the band came back and sang their old classics.

Georg Danzer died from lung cancer on June 21, 2007.

"Austria3 is history by now." (Rainhard Fendrich in front of 200,000 fans, Donauinselfest, on June 23, 2007).

[edit] Discography

  • Austria3 - Live Vol. 1 (1998)
  • Austria3 - Freunde (CD Single, 1998)
  • Austria3 - Live Vol. 2 (8. Juni 1998)
  • Austria3 - Die Dritte (10. Oktober 2000)
  • Weusd' mei Freund bist - Das Beste von Austria3 - Live (June 16, 2003)
  • Weusd' mei Freund bist ... Aus dem filmischen Tagebuch von Austria 3 (Double-DVD, June 16, 2003)
  • Austria3 - Austropop Kult (October 18, 2004)
  • Austria3 - Nur das Beste (28. July 2006)

[edit] References and external links

  1. ^ The group's name is an allusion to the cheap cigarette blend "Austria 3" produced in Austria after World War II and approximately until the end of 1950s. The blend was infamous for its awful taste, but Austrians in their teens at that time are likely to have had an "Austria 3" as their first cigarette.